Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 10 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 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 255 Oral History Interview of Helen Frame
Collection
Identifier: CN 255
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Helen Nowack Frame (1908-1999) in which she discusses her childdhood growing up in China, decision to become a missionary for Overseas Missionary Fellowship, education at Wheaton College, years of service in China, culture and political events in China; leaving China in 1951 with her husband Raymond and their children and resettlement in the Philippines, teaching at Faith Academy, development of the Bible Institute, return and activities in Wheaton. The time...
Dates:
Created: 1983
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 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 377 Papers of Elias Hatcher
Collection
Identifier: CN 377
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, audio tapes, photographs, diaries, and periodicals documenting the career of Elias Hatcher as a pilot for Mission Aviation Fellowship in Mexico from 1949 to 1968, and his time as a mission administrator at the U. S. headquarters of MAF from 1968 until his death in 1971. Diaries document Hatcher's military service and education at Wheaton College; correspondence includes love letters between Hatcher and his future wife, and letters with their six children when they were away...
Dates:
Created: 1941-1978; Majority of material found in 1943-1974
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 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
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- Children of missionaries. 9
- Missionaries -- Training of. 9
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 9
- Women missionaries. 9
- Evangelistic work. 8
- Women 8
- Women -- Religious life. 8
- Christianity and culture. 7
- Language in missionary work. 7
- Indigenous church administration 6
- Christian education. 5
- Church and state. 5
- Missionaries' spouses. 5
- Missions, Medical. 5
- Sex role. 5
- Catholic Church. 4
- Culture shock. 4
- Medical care 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 4
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
- Christian life. 3
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 3
- Christian literature. 3
- Church development, New. 3
- Communism. 3
- Conversion. 3
- Demoniac possession 3
- Ethiopia 3
- Ethiopia -- Religion. 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
- Missions -- Ethiopia. 3
- Pentecostalism. 3
- Religious institutions. 3
- Buddhists. 2
- Children -- United States 2
- Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 2
- Children of clergy. 2
- Children of clergy. -- United States. 2
- Children. 2
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 2
- China -- History. 2
- Christian education -- China. 2
- Christian education -- United States. 2
- Christianity and culture -- Kenya. 2
- Christianity and culture -- United States. 2
- College students -- United States 2
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 2
- College students. 2
- Communism -- China. 2
- Eritrea (Ethiopia) 2
- Eritrea (Ethiopia) -- History 2
- Ethiopia -- History 2
- Ethiopia -- History -- Revolution, 1974. 2
- Ethiopia -- Social life and customs. 2
- Evangelistic work -- China. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 2
- Exorcism. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Taiwan. 2
- Intercultural communication. 2
- Interpersonal conflict. 2
- Lay missionaries. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Missionaries -- Salaries, etc. 2
- Missions -- China. 2
- Missions -- Congresses -- United States. 2
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- Missions -- Educational work. 2
- Missions -- Finance. 2
- Missions -- Rural work. 2
- Missions -- Taiwan. 2
- Missions to Buddhists. 2
- Missions, Medical -- Kenya. 2
- Missions. 2
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
- Nairobi (Kenya) 2
- Nairobi (Kenya) -- Religion. 2
- Nationalism. 2
- Persecution. 2
- Rural missions. 2
- Taiwan. 2
- Tribes. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Social life and customs. 2
- World War, 1939-1945. 2
- Aeronautics in missionary work. 1
- Alcoholism -- United States 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History 1
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- Animism -- Taiwan. 1
- Animism. 1
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