Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 089 Papers of Paul P. Stough
Collection
Identifier: CN 089
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, films, videos relating to Paul P. Stough’s missionary service in the Belgian Congo with Africa Inland Mission. Materials contain information on Stough's father, Henry Stough, Wheaton College, Paul Stough's work as a missionary for Africa Inland Mission in the Belgian Congo (Zaire) and Kenya from the 1920s to the 1970s, and generally on the spread of Christianity in Africa.
Dates:
Created: 1979-1992
Collection 171 Papers of Albert and Mary Lee Bobby
Collection
Identifier: CN 171
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and personal papers of Albert and Mary Lee Bobby, missionaries in Lisbon and Santiago do Cacem, Portugal, under The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM). Collection includes interviews, articles, correspondence, prayer letters, manuscript notes, and other material from the Bobbys about their mission work, including evangelism and radio broadcasting. The correspondence also includes information on various theological issues and American Christian leaders. The oral...
Dates:
Created: 1980-1982
Collection 201 Oral History Interview with Russell P. Shedd
Collection
Identifier: CN 201
Scope and Contents
Three oral history interviews with Russell Philip Shedd, in which he describes his upbringing by missionary parents in Bolivia; education at Wheaton College, Faith Seminary (PA), and the University of Edinburgh; Billy Graham's evangelistic meetings at Harringay and Edinburgh in 1954/55; evangelism opportunities in Scotland, 1953-55; and work with the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society in Portugal, 1959-62, and Brazil, 1962-82. The time period covered by the interviews is 1929 to...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Collection 237 Records of the Slavic Gospel Association
Collection
Identifier: CN 237
Description:
Correspondence, minutes, prayer letters, audio tapes, films, and other materials documenting the work of the Slavic Gospel Association among Slavic peoples, primarily Russians. Records deal with the early career of Peter Deyneka Sr.; work of individual missionaries; long range planning for the mission; media ministry (radio, film, both before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union video, literature); and evangelism in Europe, North America and South America. Collection contains...
Dates:
Created: 1922-2002
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 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 405 Papers of W. Robert & Frances Holmes
Collection
Identifier: CN 405
Scope and Contents
Collection of letters written primarily by Robert Holmes and his wife, Frances (Frannie) to their families in the United States, while they served as missionaries with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Sri Lanka from 1947 to 1960. A few of the letters are from the children, Bobby and Carol Lou, to their grandparents, and there are a few letters sent to the Holmes family. (The originals were retained by the donor.) The letters date from 1947 to 1960, and were mostly...
Dates:
Created: 1947-1960
Collection 460 Oral History Interviews with Phyllis E. Taylor
Collection
Identifier: CN 460
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Phyllis Evelyn Taylor in which she discusses her childhood and conversion to Christianity; education at Wheaton College; her experiences as a Christian and Missionary Alliance teacher and evangelist among the Bantu people in the Belgian Congo from 1952-1966; her work in Taiwan from 1968 as an independent missionary; and teaching English as a means of evangelism. Other topics discussed include attending Nyack Missionary Training Institute; memories of the 1950...
Dates:
Created: 1992
Congress on the Church's Worldwide Mission Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 021
Scope and Contents
Materials relating to the Congress on the Church's Worldwide Mission which was held on the Wheaton College campus in 1966 and was jointly sponsored by the Evangelical Foreign Missions Association and the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association. Audio tapes document various sessions of the Congress, including biblical expositions, study papers (on subjects like syncretism, church growth, cooperation, the Catholic Church and social issues), reports on missions on the world's...
Dates:
Created: 1964-1967
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
World Evangelical Alliance Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 338
Brief Description
Correspondence, reports, minutes, budgets, audio tapes, photographs. Topics documented included the formation of the WEF; the gradual growth of influence by non-Western associations; the activities of Evangelical Protestants in many different parts of the world; the leadership of J. Elwin Wright, Clyde Taylor, Waldron Scott, and David Howard, among others. Many of the twenty-eight audiotapes are of addresses presented at the Eighth General Assembly in Singapore in 1986.
Dates:
Created: 1926-1992, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1948-1986
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 10
- Catholic Church. 9
- Evangelistic work. 9
- Missionaries. 8
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 7
- Christian education. 7
- Church and state. 7
- Theology 7
- Children of missionaries. 6
- Missionaries -- Training of. 6
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 6
- Missions -- Educational work. 6
- Pentecostalism. 6
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 6
- Bible. 5
- Church and social problems. 5
- Communism. 5
- Evangelicalism. 5
- Language in missionary work. 5
- Missions. 5
- Religious institutions. 5
- Women 5
- Women -- Religious life. 5
- Christianity and culture. 4
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 4
- Fund raising. 4
- Indigenous church administration 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
- Theological seminaries. 4
- Women missionaries. 4
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 3
- Church development, New. 3
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 3
- Conversion. 3
- Ecumenical movement. 3
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Evangelistic work -- Congresses 3
- Family. 3
- Fundamentalism. 3
- International relief. 3
- Journalism, Religious. 3
- Marriage. 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
- Missions -- Congresses. 3
- Missions -- South America. 3
- Missions, Medical. 3
- Persecution. 3
- Radio in missionary work. 3
- Syncretism (Religion). 3
- Theology -- Congresses. 3
- Alcoholism -- United States 2
- Animism. 2
- Belgium. 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Belief and doubt. 2
- Buddhism. 2
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
- Catholic Church -- Portugal. 2
- Children. 2
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
- China -- History. 2
- Christian education -- Taiwan. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- Portugal. 2
- Church -- Biblical teaching. 2
- Church work with students. 2
- Church. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- Culture shock. 2
- Education 2
- Education, Higher 2
- Evangelistic work -- Brazil. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Portugal. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Soviet Union. 2
- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Liberation theology. 2
- Medical care 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missions -- Africa. 2
- Missions -- Asia. 2
- Missions -- Biblical teaching. 2
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 2
- Missions -- Europe. 2
- Missions -- Finance. 2
- Missions -- North America. 2
- Missions -- Oceania. 2
- Missions -- Portugal. 2
- Missions -- Theory. 2
- Missions to Buddhists. 2
- Modernist-fundamentalist controversy. 2
- Occultism 2
- Personnel management. 2
- Racism. 2
- Refugees 2 ∧ less
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