Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 12 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 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 186 Papers of M. Douglas Hursh
Collection
Identifier: CN 186
Scope and Contents
Two oral history interviews, manuscript material, photographs, and memorabilia relatingn to Marion Douglas Hursh's work with Sudan Interior Mission's Kano Eye Hospital, Kano in Nigeria from 1942-1962. Topics covered concern Hursh's education and work as a medical missionary at the Sudan Interior Mission's Kano Eye Hospital in Kano, Nigeria, as well as various aspects of church life and mission activity in Nigeria. Events described in the interviews cover the time period from 1904 to...
Dates:
Created: 1904-1982
Collection 282 Oral History Interview with Bonnie Jo Adolph
Collection
Identifier: CN 282
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Bonnie Jo Adelsman Adolph in which she discussses her missionary service in Ethiopia with Sudan Interior Mission from 1966-1974. Topics discussed include Adolph's education at Wheaton College, decision to become a missionary, living in Taiwan during her husband's military service, reasons for choosing Sudan Interior Mission, her husband's medical work in Ethiopia, observations about Sudanese culture, the church in Sudan, and the Adolphs short term mission service...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Collection 286 Oral History Interview with Marilyn J. Suttie
Collection
Identifier: CN 286
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Marilyn Joy Suttie in which she describes her work as a missionary in Cameroon with the United Presbyterian Ecumenical Mission. Topics discussed include: Suttie's childhood in China, education at Wheaton College, and short-term missionary work, mainly teaching missionary children in Cameroon. Also includes information on the Cameroon church, polygamy, Muslims in Cameroon, and medical care, and other political, social, and religious issues in Africa. The time...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Collection 385 Oral History Interview with Daniel E. Liberek
Collection
Identifier: CN 385
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Daniel Eric Liberek in which he describes growing up in Belgium as the son of a Protestant pastor, his conversion, methods of evangelism in that country, comparison between United States and Belgian evangelicals, his own work as a youth pastor in Belgium, Protestant-Catholic relations, church-state relations, and other faiths in the country. Other topics discussed include Liberek's experiences running a Christian youth camp; and some of the spiritual options in...
Dates:
Created: 1988
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 408 Oral History Interview with Tien Fock Leong
Collection
Identifier: CN 408
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Tien Fock Leong in which he describes his conversion, work with Campus Crusade for Christ in Malaysia; Malaysian culture in the Chinese community; the Malaysian church; and the relationship between church and state in Malaysia. Other topics discussed include social and economic conditions of Malaysia; the Muslim population in Malaysia; role of women in Malaysian society; American misconceptions of Malaysia; cultural diversity of Malaysia; and the Japanese...
Dates:
Created: 1989
Collection 409 Papers of David D. Thomas
Collection
Identifier: CN 409
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, photographs, negatives, and clippings relating to the linguistic and missionary work of David and Dorothy Thomas in the Philippines, Vietnam (especially with the Chrau tribe), Cambodia, and Thailand with Wycliffe Bible Translators from 1954-1975. The bulk of the content consists of David and Dorothy's letters to his mother, Ruth, who lived in Wheaton, IL. Topics covered in the correspondence include information on the Thomas family, missionary work in the Philippines, and...
Dates:
Created: 1954-1975
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 493 Oral History Interviews with Stella Kasirye
Collection
Identifier: CN 493
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Stella Kasirye in which she describes her childhood in Uganda; her conversion to Christian faith while at school; her involvement in programs to reach street children; her efforts to develop programs of AIDS education and care among college students and the country at large, and observations on the church in Uganda and missionary efforts there. The time period covered by the interviews is 1965 to 1993.Stella Kasirye was interviewed by Robert Shuster...
Dates:
Created: 1993
Collection 531 Oral History Interview with Mary M. Cagney
Collection
Identifier: CN 531
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Mary Majella Cagney in which she describes her childhood, family, spiritual development, conversion and Christian life, Irish Catholicism, education, interaction between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland, Irish Evangelicalism, charismatics, Evangelical agencies working in the country, women's role in church, Leanne Payne's Pastoral Care Ministries conferences, Wheaton College Graduate School, strengths and weaknesses of the Evangelical church in Ireland,...
Dates:
Created: 1996
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Missionaries. 10
- Women 9
- Women -- Religious life. 9
- Children of missionaries. 8
- Evangelistic work. 8
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 8
- Sex role. 8
- Women missionaries. 8
- Conversion. 7
- Missionaries -- Training of. 7
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 7
- Pentecostalism. 6
- Catholic Church. 5
- Christianity and culture. 5
- Indigenous church administration 5
- Language in missionary work. 5
- Medical care 5
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 5
- Evangelicalism. 4
- Missions, Medical. 4
- Muslims. 4
- Worship. 4
- Belief and doubt. 3
- Bible. 3
- Children. 3
- Christian education -- United States. 3
- Christian education. 3
- Christian life. 3
- Communism. 3
- Education 3
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 3
- Marriage. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- Persecution. 3
- Tribes. 3
- Animism. 2
- Baptism. 2
- Baptists -- Missions. 2
- Baptists. 2
- Bible -- Translating. 2
- Buddhism. 2
- Catholic Church -- Evangelicalism. 2
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
- Children -- United States 2
- Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Church attendance. 2
- Church development, New. 2
- Church work with students. 2
- College students. 2
- Culture shock. 2
- Demoniac possession 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Hindus 2
- Interpersonal conflict. 2
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 2
- Journalism, Religious. 2
- Linguistics 2
- Linguists 2
- Linguists -- United States. 2
- Missionaries -- Salaries, etc. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missions -- Educational work. 2
- Missions -- Finance. 2
- Missions -- Vietnam. 2
- Missions. 2
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
- Occultism 2
- Religious institutions. 2
- Sabbath. 2
- Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975. 2
- Women in church work. 2
- World War, 1939-1945. 2
- AIDS (Disease) 1
- Abortion 1
- Abortion -- Religious aspects. 1
- Alcoholism -- United States 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History -- 1945- 1
- Ancestor worship -- Malaysia. 1
- Ancestor worship. 1
- Anglicans. 1
- Animism -- Guatemala. 1
- Animism -- Taiwan. 1
- Atheism -- Belgium. 1
- Atheism. 1
- Baptists -- Missions -- Taiwan. 1
- Baptists -- Missions -- Uganda. 1
- Baptists -- Taiwan. 1
- Belgium. 1
- Belgium. -- Religion. 1
- Belgium. -- Social life and customs. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution -- Malaysia. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 1
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