Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 7 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 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 287 Oral History Interview with Margaret Crossett
Collection
Identifier: CN 287
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Margaret Rice Elliott Crossett in which she describes her childhood with her missionary parents in China, her education at Wheaton College, and missionary career with her husband, Vincent Crossett, in China and Taiwan with China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship (1929-1948, 1961-1973). Topics discussed include Crossett's childhood in China; description of Chinese indigenous worship practices and syncretism in Chinese religious culture; Crossett's...
Dates:
Created: 1984-1986
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 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
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
- Communism. 6
- Missionaries. 6
- Bible. 5
- Catholic Church. 5
- Children of missionaries. 5
- Christian education. 5
- Indigenous church administration 5
- Missionaries -- Training of. 5
- Religious institutions. 5
- Theology 5
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 5
- Women 5
- Women -- Religious life. 5
- Church and state. 4
- Evangelistic work. 4
- Fund raising. 4
- Language in missionary work. 4
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 4
- Missions. 4
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 3
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 3
- China -- History. 3
- Christianity and culture. 3
- Church development, New. 3
- Ecumenical movement. 3
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 3
- Family. 3
- Fundamentalism. 3
- International relief. 3
- Medical care 3
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
- Missions -- Educational work. 3
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Pentecostalism. 3
- Refugees 3
- Rural missions. 3
- Women missionaries. 3
- Animism. 2
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
- Buddhists -- China. 2
- Buddhists. 2
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 2
- China -- Social life and customs. 2
- China. 2
- Christian education -- China. 2
- Christian education -- Taiwan. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Communism -- China. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 2
- Crime and criminals 2
- Crime and criminals -- China. 2
- Culture shock. 2
- Education 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Evangelistic work -- Soviet Union. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Taiwan. 2
- Interpersonal conflict. 2
- Journalism, Religious. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 2
- Missions -- China. 2
- Missions -- Finance. 2
- Missions -- North America. 2
- Missions -- South America. 2
- Missions -- Taiwan. 2
- Missions to Buddhists. 2
- Missions, Medical. 2
- Modernist-fundamentalist controversy. 2
- Persecution. 2
- Personnel management. 2
- Racism. 2
- Refugees -- China. 2
- Seminary extension. 2
- Theological seminaries. 2
- Tribes. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
- Worship (Christian) 2
- Africa, East. 1
- Africa, East. -- Religion 1
- Alaska. 1
- Alcoholism -- United States 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History -- 1945- 1
- Aleuts. 1
- Ancestor worship. 1
- Ancestor worship. -- China. 1
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Anti-communist movements -- United States. 1
- Anti-communist movements. 1
- Apartheid. 1
- Belgium. 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies 1 ∧ less
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