Wheaton College (Ill.)
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Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 177 Papers of Zoe Anne Alford
Collection
Identifier: CN 177
Scope and Contents
This collection contains curriculum materials and lecture notes, manuscripts of messages, correspondence, prayer letters, financial records, clippings, maps, promotional materials, minutes, photographs, newsletters, oral history interview, documenting Zoe Anne Alford's work in India and among Navajo Indians in New Mexico. The collection provides a broad overview of her education, preparation and missionary career, extending from her grammar school education into her retirement. It provides...
Dates:
Created: 1925-1983
Collection 187 Papers of Eleanor R. Elliott
Collection
Identifier: CN 187
Scope and Contents
Family correspondence, prayer letters, brochures, newspaper clippings, prayer cards and letters from other missionaries, photographs, slides, negatives, journals and diaries, and eight interviews concerning Elliott's childhood in China, mission work with China Inland Mission (now Overseas Missionary Fellowship) in China and the Philippines, her experiences as an evangelist and teacher, her life in China during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945, and the civil war that followed. Her retirement...
Dates:
Created: 1910-1988
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 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 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
Helen Renich Papers.
Collection
Identifier: CN 124
Brief Description
Two oral history interviews with Helen Gignilliat Torrey Renich in which she describes her grandfather, Reuben Archer Torrey, Sr., and her experiences growing up in China as a child of missionaries. Other topics discussed include her experiences at Wheaton College and culture shock. The collection also includes photographs of her family life in China and Chinese nationals, ca. 1920-30s.Helen Renich was interviewed by Robert Shuster on May 15, 1980 in Michigan and on May 17, 1982...
Dates:
Created: 1920-1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Helen Renich Papers.
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- Women missionaries. 6
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- Christianity and culture. 4
- Education 4
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 4
- Sex role. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 4
- Women 4
- Women -- Religious life. 4
- Bible. 3
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
- Christian education. 3
- Church growth. 3
- Communism. 3
- Conversion. 3
- Education, Higher 3
- Medical care 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- Missions -- India. 3
- Persecution. 3
- Tribes. 3
- World War, 1939-1945. 3
- Belief and doubt. 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Catholic Church. 2
- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 2
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 2
- China -- History. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Christian martyrs. 2
- Church and state. 2
- Church work with children. 2
- Church work with women -- China. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- Education, Higher -- India. 2
- Education, Higher -- United States. 2
- Evangelistic work -- China. 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- India -- History -- 1947- 2
- India -- History. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- India. 2
- Medical care -- China. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of. 2
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
- Missions -- China. 2
- Missions -- Finance. 2
- Missions -- Philippines. 2
- Missions -- Vietnam. 2
- Missions to Buddhists. 2
- Persecution -- China. 2
- Presbyterian Church -- Missions. 2
- Presbyterian Church. 2
- Presbyterians. 2
- Rural missions. 2
- Sex role -- China. 2
- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 2
- Theological seminaries. 2
- Worship (Christian) 2
- Alcoholism -- United States 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History -- 1945- 1
- Animism -- Brazil. 1
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Animism. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution -- China. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 1
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
- Bible -- Translating. 1
- Bible colleges 1
- Bible colleges -- Vietnam. 1
- Bible colleges. 1
- Boarding schools -- China. 1
- Boarding schools -- India. 1
- Boarding schools -- Korea. 1
- Brazil -- Religion. 1
- Brazil. 1
- Brazil. -- Social conditions. 1
- Buddhism -- Doctrines. 1
- Buddhism -- Sri Lanka. 1
- Buddhism. 1
- Buddhists -- China. 1
- Buddhists. 1
- Caste. 1
- Caste. -- Sri Lanka. 1
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 1
- Catholic Church -- Relations 1
- Catholic Church. -- India. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Sri Lanka. 1
- Children of clergy. 1
- Children of clergy. -- United States. 1
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