Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 116 Oral History Interviews with Helen Elliott
Collection
Identifier: CN 116
Scope and Contents
Oral History interviews conducted with Helen Ruth Belcher Elliot (1927-2012), missionary with Wycliffe Bible Translators to the Ixil Indian tribe in Guatemala. Topics include Wheaton College during the 1940s, field experiences, Guatemalan culture and religion, and family activities. Topics covered in the interview include: Elliott's childhood, marriage and early family life, education at Wheaton College (including courses, academic and social life), decision to become a missionary with...
Dates:
Created: 1980
Collection 248 Papers of William J. Barnett
Collection
Identifier: CN 248
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and booklet of short stories and photographs created by William John Barnett, relating to his upbringing in Kenya as the son of missionaries with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) and his own later medical missionary service in Tanzania, Kenya, and the Comoro Islands from 1950-1990.Series: Audio TapesOral history interviews with William John Barnett in which he describes his childhood in Kenya with his missionary parents;...
Dates:
Created: 1983-1997
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 289 Oral History Interview with G. Paul Groen
Collection
Identifier: CN 289
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Paul Groen in which he describes his education at Wheaton College, missionary work the Christian Reformed Church in Nigeria and the Nigerian church, particularly among the Tiv people, and the country's economy, educational system and political history between 1964 and 1973. Other topics discussed include: Tiv customs and religion, the church among the Tiv and its indigenous leadership and transition of leadership from missionaries, relations with Roman Catholics...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Collection 317 Oral History Interview with Ian H. and Ruth E. Cook
Collection
Identifier: CN 317
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Ian Harper Cooke and Ruth Eileen (Witmer) Cook, in which Ian describes his childhood and education in South Africa, college education at Wheaton College, training for missionary work, medical missions work in South Africa with The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM), the Zulus, apartheid, and the national church; and Ruth describes her childhood, conversion, and intention to become a missionary nurse, education at West Suburban Hospital and Wheaton College,...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Collection 344 Oral History Interview with Paul B. Long
Collection
Identifier: CN 344
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Paul Brown Long in which he discusses his childhood, attendance at Wheaton Academy and Wheaton College (including individuals Hudson, Taylor Armerding, Edward A. Coray, V. Raymond Edman, Billy Graham, Ruth Bell Graham, Clarence Jaarsma, Clarence Simpson, C. Gregg Singer), missionary work in education, evangelism, and church planting in the former Belgian Congo and in Brazil. Other topics include animism, church discipline, Christianity and culture, rearing a...
Dates:
Created: 1986
Collection 428 Papers of Helen E. Berry
Collection
Identifier: CN 428
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview and prayer letters relating to the ministry of Helen Elizabeth Berry, missionary with the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society in Taiwan from 1966-1990.Series: Audio TapesOral history interview with Helen E. Berry in which she describes her youth, family, conversion, call to be a missionary, education at Wheaton College, missionary work with the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society in Taiwan, church...
Dates:
Created: 1990
Collection 465 Oral History Interview with Merry E. Long
Collection
Identifier: CN 465
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Merry Dalton Long (1925-2010) in which she describes her childhood; education at Wheaton College; marriage; missionary work in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo) and Brazil; the 1960 Congo Rebellion; raising and educating children on the mission field. Other topics discussed include: Long’s medical training as a nurse during WWII; impressions of Africa; medical care available on the mission field; observations about Congolese animism; missionary...
Dates:
Created: 1986
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Evangelistic work. 7
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 7
- Women missionaries. 6
- Children of missionaries. 5
- Conversion. 5
- Language in missionary work. 5
- Tribes. 5
- Women 5
- Women -- Religious life. 5
- Christian education. 4
- Education 4
- Indigenous church administration 4
- Interpersonal conflict. 4
- Medical care 4
- Missionaries -- Training of. 4
- Missions, Medical. 3
- Missions. 3
- Sex role. 3
- Worship. 3
- Bible. 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Brazil -- Religion. 2
- Brazil. 2
- Buddhists. 2
- Catholic Church. 2
- Christian education -- United States. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Church and state. 2
- Church development, New. 2
- College students -- Religious life. 2
- College students. 2
- Culture shock. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Brazil. 2
- Family -- United States. 2
- Idols and images. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Taiwan. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missions -- Brazil. 2
- Missions -- Finance. 2
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Missions -- Taiwan. 2
- Race relations. 2
- Religious institutions. 2
- Rural missions. 2
- Superstition. 2
- Syncretism (Religion). 2
- Ancestor worship. 1
- Ancestor worship. -- China. 1
- Animism -- Brazil. 1
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Animism -- Guatemala. 1
- Animism -- Kenya. 1
- Animism -- Nigeria. 1
- Animism -- South Africa. 1
- Animism -- Taiwan. 1
- Apartheid. 1
- Baptists -- Missions -- Taiwan. 1
- Baptists -- Missions. 1
- Baptists -- Taiwan. 1
- Baptists. 1
- Belgium. 1
- Belgium. -- Administration. 1
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 1
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
- Bible -- Translating. 1
- Boarding schools -- Kenya. 1
- Boarding schools -- South Africa. 1
- Brazil. -- Social conditions. 1
- Buddhists -- China. 1
- Buddhists -- Taiwan. 1
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 1
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Guatemala. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Missions -- South Africa. 1
- Catholic Church. -- South Africa. 1
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 1
- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 1
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 1
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 1
- China -- History -- Revolution, 1911-1912. 1
- China -- History. 1
- China -- Social life and customs. 1
- China. 1
- Christian Reformed Church -- Missions. 1
- Christian education -- Brazil. 1
- Christian education -- China. 1
- Christian education -- Taiwan. 1
- Christian leadership. 1
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 1
- Christian literature. 1
- Church and state -- Guatemala. 1
- Church and state -- Taiwan. 1
- Church discipline. 1 ∧ less
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