Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 9 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 185 Papers of Albert and Muriel Nichols
Collection
Identifier: CN 185
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, photos, negatives and miscellaneous documents concerning family events and career decisions relating to the Nicholas’ missionary work in Sierra Leone. The bulk of the letters were sent to family during a two year period while the Nichols were serving as missionaries to Sierra Leone, where Albert was director of Industrial Education at Albert Academy. Topics include life in and methods of education of an urban missionary school in the 1920's, teaching industrial education at...
Dates:
Created: 1904-1952
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 262 Oral History Interview with Raymond Buker Jr.
Collection
Identifier: CN 262
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Raymond Bates Buker in which he describes growing up in Burma as the child of missionaries, his education at Wheaton College, his decision to become a missionary under the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society, language study; evangelization, church planting, translation, medical missions and education activities in Pakistan, working with Muslims and the Sindhi, Bhils, and Marwari tribal people, 1954-1969. Other topics discussed include: the culture,...
Dates:
Created: 1983
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
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
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
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- Subject
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 8
- Evangelistic work. 8
- Missionaries. 7
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 5
- Catholic Church. 5
- Children of missionaries. 5
- Church and state. 5
- Language in missionary work. 5
- Missionaries -- Training of. 5
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 5
- Bible. 4
- Christian education. 4
- Conversion. 4
- Indigenous church administration 4
- Missions, Medical. 4
- Pentecostalism. 4
- Animism. 3
- Belgium. 3
- Church and social problems. 3
- Communism. 3
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Missions. 3
- Social change. 3
- Syncretism (Religion). 3
- Theology 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- Women missionaries. 3
- Worship (Christian) 3
- Alcoholism -- United States 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Bible -- Translating. 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Buddhism. 2
- Caste. 2
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
- Chicago (Ill.) 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- Christian education -- Africa, East. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- Africa. 2
- Christianity and culture. 2
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Church work with students. 2
- Economic and social conditions 2
- Education 2
- Education, Higher 2
- Evangelistic work -- Brazil. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Soviet Union. 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Intercultural communication. 2
- Journalism, Religious. 2
- Kingwana language. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Medical care 2
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
- Missionaries -- United States. 2
- Missions -- Africa. 2
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 2
- Missions -- Kenya. 2
- Missions -- South America. 2
- Racism. 2
- Rural missions. 2
- Sermons, American. 2
- Sex role. 2
- Theological seminaries. 2
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 2
- Tribes. 2
- World War, 1939-1945. 2
- Africa, East. 1
- Africa, East. -- Religion 1
- Africa. -- Description and travel. 1
- Alaska. 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Foreign relations 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Foreign relations -- Taiwan. 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History -- 1945- 1
- Aleuts. 1
- Animism -- Central African Republic. 1
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Animism -- Congo. 1
- Athletes 1
- Athletes -- United States 1
- Athletes -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- Bantu-speaking peoples. 1
- Baptists -- Missions -- Brazil. 1
- Baptists -- Missions -- Portugal. 1
- Baptists -- Missions. 1
- Baptists. 1
- Belgium. -- Administration. 1
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Bhil (Indic people) 1 ∧ less
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