Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 104 Oral History Interview with Bruce F. Hunt
Collection
Identifier: CN 104
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews in which Bruce Finley Hunt (1903-1992) discusses his boyhood in Korea, college and seminary education at Wheaton College, Rutgers University and Princeton Seminary; a portion (1928-1942) of his missionary work in Korea and Manchuria; and his impressions of Korean culture. The time period covered by the interviews is roughly 1903-1976.Bruce Finley Hunt was interviewed by Robert Shuster on March 22 and May 21, 1980 and October 16, 2002 in Abington, PA and...
Dates:
Created: 1980-1982
Collection 228 Oral History Interview with Lyndon Hess
Collection
Identifier: CN 228
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Lyndon Roth Hess in which he describes his missionary service in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) between 1932 and 1975 as a teacher of missionary children, assistant to village pastors and other work with the Lunda people. Topics include cultural influences on missionary children, education at Wheaton College, missionary service with Brethren Assemblies in Zambia teaching children of missionaries, the national African church, tribal tensions, Marxism, influence of...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Collection 284 Oral History Interview with Gladys Wright
Collection
Identifier: CN 284
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Gladys Lyle Wright (1902-1994), in which she discusses her work as a teacher in Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo). Topics discussed include: Wright's family background, education at Wheaton College and Moody Bible Institute, her work as a missionary in the Belgian Congo for the Africa Inland Mission, memories of the Congolese people and culture, and her experiences at Wheaton when she was on the staff of the College after retriring from the mission...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Collection 288 Oral History Interview with Vincent L. Crossett
Collection
Identifier: CN 288
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Vincent Leroy Crossett (1907-1999) in which he describes his education at Wheaton and Westminster Seminary, missionary work with China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship in China and Taiwan, and pastoral work in a local church in Hawaii. Topics discussed include Crossett's education at Wheaton College and Westminster Seminary; decision to join China Inland Mission; language school; evangelism methods; characteristics of the Chinese church; CIM's...
Dates:
Created: 1984-1986
Collection 290 Oral History Interview with Merle A. Steely
Collection
Identifier: CN 290
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Merle Ashel Steely, who worked as a missionary with Sudan Interior Mission between 1951 and 1977 in Liberia and Nigeria. Topic discussed include: Steely's conversion while in military service, education and employment at Wheaton College (including the 1950 revival there), his missionary work in Liberia at radio station ELWA and with Sudan Interior Mission in Nigeria, teaching in mission and government schools, evangelism and church planting, Billy Graham's 1960...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Collection 328 Papers of Eric and Lydia Maillefer
Collection
Identifier: CN 328
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, speech manuscripts and prayer letters relating to the careers and ministries of Eric and Lydia Maillefer as missionaries and Christian workers with the Evangelical Free Church in Zaire, Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar (AEAM), and the Africa Evangelical Office (AEO). Lydia worked as a teacher and school administrator; Eric worked first as a teacher, then on loan as a conference coordinator to the Africa Evangelical Office, and later as administrative secretary...
Dates:
Created: 1971-1991
Collection 361 Oral History Interviews with C. René Padilla
Collection
Identifier: CN 361
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with René Padilla, in which he discusses his childhood, family, evangelism in Colombia and Ecuador, persecution by Catholics in Colombia, his education at Wheaton College, work among university students with International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) in Latin America, evangelical theological education and liberation theology, the 1974 Lausanne Congress and covenant, the ministry of his church in Buenos Aires among drug addicts and slum dwellers, and the...
Dates:
Created: 1987
Collection 385 Oral History Interview with Daniel E. Liberek
Collection
Identifier: CN 385
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Daniel Eric Liberek in which he describes growing up in Belgium as the son of a Protestant pastor, his conversion, methods of evangelism in that country, comparison between United States and Belgian evangelicals, his own work as a youth pastor in Belgium, Protestant-Catholic relations, church-state relations, and other faiths in the country. Other topics discussed include Liberek's experiences running a Christian youth camp; and some of the spiritual options in...
Dates:
Created: 1988
Collection 415 Papers of Bonnie Stuckless
Collection
Identifier: CN 415
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, prayer letters, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and articles relating to the ministry of Bonnie G. Stuckless and her husband Donald Stuckless, missionaries in Colombia, Panama, and Spain with the Assemblies of God from 1970 to 1992.[NOTE: In the Scope and Content description, the notation "folder 2-5" means box 2, folder 5.]Series: Audio TapesTwo oral history...
Dates:
Created: 1969-1992
Collection 522 Oral History Interviews with Joel Martínez Hernandez
Collection
Identifier: CN 522
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Joel Martínez Hernandez in which he discusses his early childhood in Jaruco, Cuba; conversion to Christianity; being son of missionaries; bi-culturalism; Toccoa Falls boarding school and college; effect of service in the United States Navy on spiritual development; reasons for not being TEAM missionary; missionary work in Barcelona and then Madrid, Spain with Christian & Missionary Alliance; traditional church models versus cell-group based models; education...
Dates:
Created: 1995
Collection 526 Oral History Interview with José Pablo Sánchez-Nuñez
Collection
Identifier: CN 526-526
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Jose Pablo Sánchez-Nuñez, in which he describes his family, childhood in Spain, Protestant Evangelicalism in a predominantly Catholic country, his conversion and spiritual development, training for ministry, work with Decisión, theological education by extension in Spain, American missionaries and their impact in Spain, attempts to unify Spanish Protestants, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association's Global Mission (of which he was the director in Madrid), his...
Dates:
Created: 1995
Conversion Narratives Collection
Collection — Container: Books
Identifier: SC-228
Scope and Contents
The contents of the Conversion Narratives Collection may be searched in the library catalog using keyword: SC/228
Dates:
Other: -
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Conversion Narratives Collection
Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA) Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 352
Brief Description
Correspondence, form letters, financial and statistical reports, minutes, memos and promotional material related to IFMA administration and its service to its member missions. The files on IFMA members and numerous other Christian agencies predominate. Also includes series of maps of Latin American countries identifying nondenominational and denominational mission activity. Numerous mission-related subjects are documented. Persons prominently featured include Jack Frizen, Billy Graham, and...
Dates:
Created: 1934-1983, undated
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Catholic Church. 11
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 11
- Missionaries. 11
- Children of missionaries. 10
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 9
- Church and state. 9
- Missionaries -- Training of. 9
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 9
- Christian education. 8
- Christianity and culture. 8
- Conversion. 8
- Indigenous church administration 7
- Language in missionary work. 7
- Missions -- Finance. 7
- Education 6
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 5
- Culture shock. 5
- Evangelicalism. 5
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 5
- Missions -- Educational work. 5
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 5
- Tribes. 5
- Women missionaries. 5
- College students in missionary work. 4
- Communism. 4
- Family. 4
- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
- Liberation theology. 4
- Medical care 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missions -- Africa. 4
- Missions, Medical. 4
- Pentecostalism. 4
- Persecution. 4
- Religious institutions. 4
- Superstition. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 4
- Women 4
- Women -- Religious life. 4
- Belgium. 3
- Bible colleges 3
- Boarding schools. 3
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 3
- Catholic Church -- Spain. 3
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 3
- Christian literature. 3
- Church and social problems. 3
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 3
- Counseling. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Evangelistic work -- Congresses 3
- Evangelistic work -- Spain. 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Great Britain 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- Missions -- Congresses. 3
- Missions -- Spain. 3
- Missions to Muslims. 3
- Missions. 3
- Pentecostalism--Catholic Church 3
- Revivals. 3
- Rural churches. 3
- Rural missions. 3
- Sex role. 3
- Theology 3
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Athletics. 3
- Animism. 2
- Belgium. -- Administration. 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
- Bible colleges -- United States. 2
- Bible. 2
- Brethren Assemblies -- Missions. 2
- Buddhists. 2
- Catholic Church -- Colombia. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
- China -- History. 2
- Christian education -- Zambia. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Christianity and culture -- Spain. 2
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Church and state -- Zambia. 2
- Church growth. 2
- Church schools 2
- Church work with children. 2
- College students -- Religious life. 2
- College students. 2
- Colombia 2
- Colombia -- Religion. 2
- Communism -- Zambia. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic)--Social life and customs 2
- Ecumenical movement. 2 ∧ less
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