Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 9 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 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 401 Oral History Interview with Karl G. Dortzbach
Collection
Identifier: CN 401
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Karl G. Dortzbach in which he describes his childhood and youth, influence of his family, education at Wheaton College and Westminster Theological Seminary, and missionary experience in Ethiopia (short term with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church) and in Kenya. Subjects covered include missiology, conversion, raising children on the mission field, marital relationships on the mission field, church life in a Nairobi congregation, proliferation of parachurch groups...
Dates:
Created: 1988-1989
Collection 402 Papers of Debbie Dortzbach
Collection
Identifier: CN 402
Scope and Contents
Audio recordings, including an oral history interview, diary, and several letters, relating to the career and ministry of Debbie Dortzbach, missionary to Kenya and Eritrea with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and later the Reformed Presbyterian Church from 1973 to 1988.Series: Audio TapesOne oral history interview with Debbie Dortzbach in which she describes her describes her childhood, education at Wheaton College, and missionary work in...
Dates:
Created: 1974-1989
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 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 427 Oral History Interviews with Americo Saavedra
Collection
Identifier: CN 427
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Americo Saavedra, a Peruvian-born missionary working with HCJB in Ecuador, in which he describes his childhood, family, conversion, Catholicism in Peru and Ecuador, radio station HCJB and its ministry, Quito, Ecuador, his decision to be a missionary, employment with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Peru. Other topics include his education at Moody Bible Institute, Christian education in Ecuador, informal education, Summer Institute of Linguistics, the state of the...
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
- Missionaries. 8
- Christianity and culture. 7
- Language in missionary work. 7
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 7
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 7
- Evangelistic work. 6
- Indigenous church administration 6
- Women 6
- Women -- Religious life. 6
- Christian education. 5
- Missionaries -- Training of. 5
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 5
- Catholic Church. 4
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 4
- Christian literature. 4
- Communism. 4
- Medical care 4
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 4
- Missions. 4
- Bible. 3
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
- Christian life. 3
- Church and state. 3
- Church development, New. 3
- Culture shock. 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Interpersonal conflict. 3
- Missions -- Educational work. 3
- Missions, Medical. 3
- Religious institutions. 3
- Rural missions. 3
- Sex role. 3
- Tribes. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Social life and customs. 3
- Animism. 2
- Belief and doubt. 2
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
- Bible colleges 2
- Buddhists -- China. 2
- Buddhists. 2
- Children of clergy. 2
- Children of clergy. -- United States. 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
- Christianity and culture -- Kenya. 2
- College students -- United States 2
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 2
- College students. 2
- Communism -- China. 2
- Conversion. 2
- Crime and criminals 2
- Crime and criminals -- China. 2
- Education 2
- Eritrea (Ethiopia) 2
- Eritrea (Ethiopia) -- History 2
- Ethiopia 2
- Ethiopia -- History 2
- Ethiopia -- History -- Revolution, 1974. 2
- Ethiopia -- Religion. 2
- Ethiopia -- Social life and customs. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Taiwan. 2
- Lay missionaries. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 2
- Missions -- China. 2
- Missions -- Congresses -- United States. 2
- Missions -- Congresses. 2
- Missions -- Ethiopia. 2
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Missions -- Rural work. 2
- Missions -- Taiwan. 2
- Missions -- Vietnam. 2
- Missions to Buddhists. 2
- Missions, Medical -- Kenya. 2
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
- Nairobi (Kenya) 2
- Nairobi (Kenya) -- Religion. 2
- Pentecostalism. 2
- Radio in missionary work. 2
- Refugees 2
- Refugees -- China. 2
- Theology 2
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 2
- Alcoholism -- United States 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History -- 1945- 1 ∧ less
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