Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
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 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 335 Papers of Ralph E. Shannon
Collection
Identifier: CN 335
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and paper records relating to Ralph Shannon’s life and ministry as a medical missionary in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo).Audio Tapes Four oral history interviews with Ralph Shannon, recorded on eight reels of audio tape. Topics covered include Shannon's childhood in Belgian Congo (Zaire) with his missionary parents, Wheaton College undergraduate and graduate education, service in Zaire as a medical...
Dates:
Created: 1986-1990
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 468 Oral History Interviews with Elizabeth C. Stough
Collection
Identifier: CN 468
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Elizabeth Quackenbush Stough (1913-2009) in which she discusses her parents, childhood, education, conversion, attendance at Moody Bible Institute, call to be a missionary, joining Africa Inland Mission, travel to Africa, work in French Equatorial Africa, evangelistic field trips, her husband Paul Stough, her work among women in the Belgian Congo, the growth of the Africa Inland Church, the independence of the Congo, the Congolese civil war and Simba uprising,...
Dates:
Created: 1992-1993
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
- Church and state. 5
- Evangelistic work. 5
- Indigenous church administration 5
- Missionaries -- Training of. 5
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 5
- Women 5
- Women -- Religious life. 5
- Women missionaries. 5
- Catholic Church. 4
- Christian education. 4
- Language in missionary work. 4
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 4
- Pentecostalism. 4
- Sex role. 4
- Christianity and culture. 3
- Communism. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Family. 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- Missions -- Finance. 3
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Rural missions. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 3
- Animism. 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- Children. 2
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
- China -- History. 2
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Church development, New. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 2
- Conversion. 2
- Culture shock. 2
- Ecumenical movement. 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Independent churches. 2
- Intercultural communication. 2
- Journalism, Religious. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Medical care 2
- Mission music. 2
- Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 2
- Missions -- Africa. 2
- Missions -- Educational work. 2
- Missions -- Public relations. 2
- Missions -- Study and teaching. 2
- Missions to Buddhists. 2
- Missions. 2
- Modernist-fundamentalist controversy. 2
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
- Occultism 2
- Personnel management. 2
- Radio in missionary work. 2
- Refugees 2
- Religious institutions. 2
- Theology 2
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 2
- Tribes. 2
- Worship. 2
- AIDS (Disease) 1
- Africa. -- Description and travel. 1
- Alcoholism -- United States 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History -- 1945- 1
- Animism -- Central African Republic. 1
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Anti-communist movements -- United States. 1
- Anti-communist movements. 1
- Belgium. 1
- Belgium. -- Administration. 1
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Bible -- Evidences, authority, etc. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 1
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
- Bible colleges 1
- Bible colleges -- United States. 1
- Bible. 1
- Boarding schools -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Boarding schools -- India. 1
- Buddhism -- Doctrines. 1
- Buddhism -- Sri Lanka. 1
- Buddhism. 1
- Buddhists -- China. 1
- Buddhists. 1
- Bunia (Congo) 1
- Caste. 1
- Caste. -- Sri Lanka. 1
- Catholic Church -- Portugal. 1
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 1
- Catholic Church. -- China. 1
- Catholic Church. -- India. 1 ∧ less
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