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 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 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
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
- Missionaries. 7
- Children of missionaries. 6
- Missionaries -- Training of. 6
- Women missionaries. 6
- Christian education. 5
- Church and state. 5
- Evangelistic work. 5
- Indigenous church administration 5
- Language in missionary work. 5
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 5
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 5
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 5
- Bible. 4
- Catholic Church. 4
- Christianity and culture. 4
- Communism. 4
- Family. 4
- Fund raising. 4
- Missionaries' spouses. 4
- Missions. 4
- Pentecostalism. 4
- Rural missions. 4
- Sex role. 4
- Theology 4
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 4
- Animism. 3
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 3
- Children. 3
- Conversion. 3
- Culture shock. 3
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 3
- Medical care 3
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
- Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 3
- Missions -- Educational work. 3
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Religious institutions. 3
- Tribes. 3
- Worship. 3
- Belief and doubt. 2
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Buddhists -- China. 2
- Buddhists. 2
- Chicago (Ill.) 2
- Children -- Conversion to Christianity. 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 2
- China -- History. 2
- China -- Social life and customs. 2
- Christian education -- China. 2
- Christian education -- Taiwan. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Church development, New. 2
- Church work with children. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- Communism -- China. 2
- Crime and criminals 2
- Crime and criminals -- China. 2
- Ecumenical movement. 2
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Evangelistic work -- Soviet Union. 2
- Fundamentalism. 2
- Idols and images. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Taiwan. 2
- Intercultural communication. 2
- International relief. 2
- Interpersonal conflict. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Mission music. 2
- Missions -- China. 2
- Missions -- Finance. 2
- Missions -- Taiwan. 2
- Missions to Buddhists. 2
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
- Occultism 2
- Persecution. 2
- Radio in missionary work. 2
- Refugees 2
- Refugees -- China. 2
- Seminary extension. 2
- Sunday schools. 2
- AIDS (Disease) 1
- Africa. -- Description and travel. 1
- Alaska. 1
- Alcoholism -- United States 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History -- 1945- 1
- Aleuts. 1
- Ancestor worship. 1 ∧ less
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