Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 089 Papers of Paul P. Stough
Collection
Identifier: CN 089
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, films, videos relating to Paul P. Stough’s missionary service in the Belgian Congo with Africa Inland Mission. Materials contain information on Stough's father, Henry Stough, Wheaton College, Paul Stough's work as a missionary for Africa Inland Mission in the Belgian Congo (Zaire) and Kenya from the 1920s to the 1970s, and generally on the spread of Christianity in Africa.
Dates:
Created: 1979-1992
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 260 Oral History Interviews with Jeannette Thiessen
Collection
Identifier: CN 260
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Jeannette Louise Martig Thiessen (1927-2014) in which she discusses her family life in Illinois, favorite professors and her education at Wheaton College, nurses' training, and years in India (1952-1974) working with her husband under the sponsorship of the Mennonite Mission to the Lepers and American Leprosy Mission. Other topics discussed include: the Indian caste system, Indian politics, economics, literacy, hospital work with lepers, the Indian church,...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Collection 277 Ephemera of Jim Elliot
Collection
Identifier: CN 277
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, tapes of sermons and audio letters, journals, notebooks, annotated Bibles, school records, poems, clippings, drawings, and other materials describing Elliot's courtship of his wife Elisabeth, his spiritual preparation for the mission field, early days of his work in Ecuador, and events leading up to his death and those of four other missionaries at the hands of the Waorani (called "Auca" by their enemies) people. Microfilm edition of materials available for researcher use.
Dates:
Created: 1941-1959; Majority of material found within 1947-1956
Collection 278: Elisabeth Elliot Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 278
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, slides, clippings, publicity releases, reviews, manuscripts, films, video and audio tapes relating to Elisabeth Elliot's careers as a missionary in Ecuador, author, teacher and speaker. The collection is particularly rich in material relating to the so-called "Auca Incident" and Elliot's own work the Waorani, whose enemies called them the "Auca," as well as her lectures on the Biblical view of the roles of men and women, dealing with suffering, and personal holiness, among...
Dates:
Created: 1926-2010; Majority of material found within 1938-2010
Collection 302 Oral History Interview with David L. Farah
Collection
Identifier: CN 302
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with David Livingstone Farah, in which he discusses his upbringing, education at Wheaton College, work as an administrator with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Peru and Bolivia, and relationships with other religious bodies, national groups and governments. Other topics include the 1950 revival at Wheaton College; Wycliffe jungle training in Mexico; the Catholic Church in Bolivia and the prevalence of syncretism; differences between Peru and Bolivia; description of...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Collection 311 Papers of Charles J. Guth
Collection
Identifier: CN 311
Scope and Contents
Water color paintings and oral history interviews with Charles J. Guth, relating to Guth’s missionary work in Africa with the Sudan Interior Mission. Topics covered by the interviews include: Guth’s education at Wheaton College, preparation for the mission field as a worker with Sudan Interior Mission, his life, work, and contacts as a missionary among the Koma and Maban people of the Sudan; the culture of these peoples; the effect of Sudan's independence on the church in the Sudan,...
Dates:
Created: 1976-1985
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 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 464 Oral History Interviews with Eileen J. Kuhn
Collection
Identifier: CN 464
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Eileen J. Kuhn in which she describes her family background; her conversion to Christianity; her medical training as a nurse; life at Moody Bible Institute in the late 1940s; China Inland Mission at about the same time; her call to foreign missions; her work at the CIM retirement home in Toronto; descriptions of John and Isobel Kuhn; work among the Lisu people in Thailand and Burma; translation of the Bible into the Lisu language; contacts with a former...
Dates:
Created: 1992-1994
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Evangelistic work. 8
- Christianity and culture. 7
- Church and state. 7
- Language in missionary work. 7
- Children of missionaries. 6
- Women 6
- Women -- Religious life. 6
- Bible -- Translating. 5
- Catholic Church. 5
- Conversion. 5
- Missions. 5
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 5
- Women missionaries. 5
- Animism. 4
- Belief and doubt. 4
- Bible. 4
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 4
- Christian education. 4
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 4
- Children. 3
- Christian martyrs. 3
- Christmas. 3
- College students in missionary work. 3
- College students. 3
- Culture shock. 3
- Education 3
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Family. 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Indigenous church administration 3
- Medical care 3
- Missions -- Finance. 3
- Missions, Medical. 3
- Occultism 3
- Pentecostalism. 3
- Worship. 3
- Belgium. 2
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
- Children -- United States 2
- Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 2
- Christian education -- United States. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- College students -- Religious life. 2
- Communism. 2
- Death. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Ecuador. 2
- Evangelistic work -- North America. 2
- Great Britain 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 2
- Huao Indians. 2
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 2
- Mass media in missionary work. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missions -- Ecuador. 2
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Missions -- Peru. 2
- Missions -- South America. 2
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
- Muslims. 2
- Nationalism. 2
- Nursing. 2
- Persecution. 2
- Prayer groups. 2
- Prayer. 2
- Quechua Indians. 2
- Quechua language. 2
- Racism. 2
- Religion in the public schools 2
- Religious institutions. 2
- Revivals -- Wheaton. 2
- Revivals. 2
- Sabbath. 2
- Sex role -- United States. 2
- Sex role. 2
- Television in religion. 2
- Tribes. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Faculty. 2
- World War, 1939-1945. 2
- Abortion 1
- Abortion -- Religious aspects. 1
- Aeronautics in missionary work. 1
- Africa, East. 1
- Africa, East. -- Religion 1
- Animism -- Bolivia. 1
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Animism -- South Africa. 1 ∧ less
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