Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
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 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 361 Oral History Interviews with C. René Padilla
Collection
Identifier: CN 361
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with René Padilla, in which he discusses his childhood, family, evangelism in Colombia and Ecuador, persecution by Catholics in Colombia, his education at Wheaton College, work among university students with International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) in Latin America, evangelical theological education and liberation theology, the 1974 Lausanne Congress and covenant, the ministry of his church in Buenos Aires among drug addicts and slum dwellers, and the...
Dates:
Created: 1987
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
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
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
- Christian literature. 8
- Theology 8
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 7
- Evangelistic work. 7
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 7
- Christian education. 6
- Missionaries -- Training of. 6
- Missionaries. 6
- Missions. 6
- Religious institutions. 6
- Bible. 5
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 5
- Catholic Church. 5
- Evangelicalism. 5
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 5
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 4
- Children of missionaries. 4
- Church and social problems. 4
- Church development, New. 4
- Communism. 4
- Fundamentalism. 4
- Missions -- Congresses. 4
- Women 4
- Women -- Religious life. 4
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 3
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 3
- China -- History. 3
- Christianity and culture. 3
- Church and state. 3
- Church work with students. 3
- College students in missionary work. 3
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Congresses 3
- Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 3
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Indigenous church administration 3
- International relief. 3
- Journalism, Religious. 3
- Language in missionary work. 3
- Missions -- Educational work. 3
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Missions -- South America. 3
- Pentecostalism. 3
- Refugees 3
- Theological seminaries. 3
- Theology -- Congresses. 3
- 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
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- United States. 2
- Church -- Biblical teaching. 2
- Church. 2
- Communism -- China. 2
- Conversion. 2
- Crime and criminals 2
- Crime and criminals -- China. 2
- Culture shock. 2
- Ecumenical movement. 2
- Education, Higher 2
- Evangelistic work -- Biblical teaching. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Brazil. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Canada. 2
- Family. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Taiwan. 2
- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Liberation theology. 2
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 2
- Missions -- Africa. 2
- Missions -- Asia. 2
- Missions -- Biblical teaching. 2
- Missions -- China. 2
- Missions -- Europe. 2
- Missions -- North America. 2
- Missions -- Oceania. 2
- Missions -- Taiwan. 2
- Missions -- Theory. 2
- Organizational change. 2
- Persecution. 2
- Personnel management. 2
- Radio in missionary work. 2
- Refugees -- China. 2
- Rural missions. 2
- Seminary extension. 2
- Sermons, American. 2
- Syncretism (Religion). 2
- Tribes. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
- Women missionaries. 2
- African American leadership. 1
- African Americans -- Religious life. 1 ∧ less
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