Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Charles W. Colson Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 275
Brief Description
Correspondence, memos, book, article and editorial manuscripts, texts of speeches, legal papers, newspaper clippings, testimony transcripts, magazine articles, audio tapes, and photographs, all documenting many of the major phases of Colson's life, including his work as a political advisor to President Richard Nixon, his involvement in the Watergate scandal, his conversion to Christian faith that caused him to plead guilty to one of the charges against him, his imprisonment, and his life...
Dates:
Created: 1960-1990
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 264 Records of Pioneer Ministries
Collection
Identifier: CN 264
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, photos, slides, tapes, curriculum materials, manuals, etc., relating to the work of the PM (formerly Pioneer Girls) in North American Churches. Materials document PM's early history, camping program (philosophy and history of Camp Cheriths and reference materials used to operate a camp and train camp staff), communications functions depicting the variety of tools used to communicate news and information to participants in its programs, orientation materials for field...
Dates:
Created: 1939-1983
Collection 346 Oral History Interview with Joshua Adjabeng
Collection
Identifier: CN 346
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Joshua Adjabeng in which he discusses his childhood in Ghana, family, conversion to Christianity, education at Wheaton College; the Church of the Pentecost, evangelistic work among university students, Christian literature in Ghana. Other topics discussed include the condition of the church in Ghana, African Pentecostalism, and a comparison of the Christian church and Ghana and the United States. The time period covered by the interview is 1950-1986....
Dates:
Created: 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
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 300
Brief Description
Administrative records of IVCF spanning the time period from its founding in 1940 until 1991; includes materials created prior to the establishment of IVCF. Includes records of the presidents (Woods, Hummel, Troutman, McLeish, Alexander, McLeish), Paul Little, Campus chapters, Regional divisions and directors, Missions department, Urbana Missions Conventions, Nurses Christian Fellowship, Development department, Jim Nyquist, Strategic Planning, Finance, and manuscript material for the 1991...
Dates:
1928-2017
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Christian literature. 6
- Journalism, Religious. 6
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 5
- Evangelistic work. 5
- Missionaries. 5
- Christian life. 4
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- United States. 4
- Pentecostalism. 4
- Children of missionaries. 3
- Christian education. 3
- Christianity today (Periodical) 3
- Church and state. 3
- Church work with students. 3
- Education, Higher 3
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of. 3
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 3
- Missions. 3
- Personnel management. 3
- Religious institutions. 3
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
- Catholic Church. 2
- Christian education, Outdoor -- United States. 2
- Christian education, Outdoor. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Church and social problems -- United States. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- College students. 2
- Communism. 2
- Discipling (Christianity) 2
- Ecumenical movement. 2
- Education, Higher -- United States. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 2
- Fund raising. 2
- Fundamentalism. 2
- Indigenous church administration 2
- Journalism, Religious -- United States. 2
- Language in missionary work. 2
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
- Missions -- Congresses. 2
- Missions -- Educational work. 2
- Missions -- Finance. 2
- Modernist-fundamentalist controversy. 2
- Organizational change. 2
- Public relations. 2
- Publishers and publishing -- Great Britain. 2
- Theology 2
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 2
- African American leadership. 1
- African Americans -- Religious life. 1
- African Americans. 1
- Alcoholism -- United States 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History -- 1945- 1
- Amnesty. -- United States. 1
- Animism -- Ghana. 1
- Animism. 1
- Anti-communist movements -- United States. 1
- Anti-communist movements. 1
- Apologetics -- Study and teaching. 1
- Audio-visual materials -- United States. 1
- Audio-visual materials. 1
- Authors and publishers -- United States. 1
- Authors and readers -- United States. 1
- Baptists -- Missions -- Brazil. 1
- Baptists -- Missions -- Portugal. 1
- Baptists -- Missions. 1
- Baptists. 1
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution -- Brazil. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution -- Portugal. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 1
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
- Bible -- Theology. 1
- Bible colleges 1
- Bible colleges -- United States. 1
- Bible. 1
- Boarding schools -- India. 1
- Boarding schools. 1
- Born again (Motion picture) 1
- Born again. 1
- Boys -- United States 1
- Boys. 1
- Boys. -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- Boys. -- United States -- Societies and clubs. 1
- Buddhism -- Doctrines. 1
- Buddhism -- Sri Lanka. 1
- Buddhism. 1
- Businessmen -- Religious life -- United States. 1
- Businessmen -- Religious life. 1
- Camp counselors. 1
- Campaign funds. -- United States. 1
- Camps -- Administration. 1
- Camps. 1
- Capital punishment -- Christianity. 1
- Caste. 1
- Caste. -- Sri Lanka. 1
- Catholic Church -- Bolivia. 1 ∧ less
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