Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 8 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 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 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 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
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
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
- Evangelistic work. 7
- Church and state. 6
- Catholic Church. 5
- Children of missionaries. 5
- Missionaries -- Training of. 5
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 5
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 4
- Christian education. 4
- Conversion. 4
- Journalism, Religious. 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missions -- Educational work. 4
- Missions. 4
- Women 4
- Women -- Religious life. 4
- Women missionaries. 4
- Animism. 3
- Children. 3
- Communism. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Indigenous church administration 3
- Language in missionary work. 3
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
- Missions -- Finance. 3
- Occultism 3
- Sex role. 3
- Theology 3
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 3
- Alcoholism -- United States 2
- Belief and doubt. 2
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Bible. 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Buddhism. 2
- Catholic Church -- Portugal. 2
- Children -- Conversion to Christianity. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- Portugal. 2
- Christianity today (Periodical) 2
- Church discipline. 2
- Church work with children. 2
- Church work with students. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 2
- Ecumenical movement. 2
- Education, Higher 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Brazil. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Portugal. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Soviet Union. 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Family. 2
- Fundamentalism. 2
- Independent churches. 2
- Intercultural communication. 2
- International relief. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Medical care 2
- Mission music. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 2
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Missions -- North America. 2
- Missions -- Portugal. 2
- Missions -- Public relations. 2
- Missions -- South America. 2
- Missions -- Study and teaching. 2
- Modernist-fundamentalist controversy. 2
- Personnel management. 2
- Radio in missionary work. 2
- Rural missions. 2
- Social classes 2
- Social classes -- Portugal. 2
- Sunday schools. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
- Worship (Christian) 2
- AIDS (Disease) 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 -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Animism -- Congo. 1
- Animism -- Ghana. 1
- Anti-communist movements -- United States. 1
- Anti-communist movements. 1
- Bantu-speaking peoples. 1
- Baptists -- Missions -- Brazil. 1
- Baptists -- Missions -- Portugal. 1
- Baptists -- Missions. 1
- Baptists. 1
- Belgium. 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies 1 ∧ less
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