Wheaton College (Ill.)
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Found in 4 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 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 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 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
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Catholic Church. 3
- Church and state. 3
- Education 3
- Evangelistic work. 3
- Indigenous church administration 3
- Medical care 3
- Missionaries -- Training of. 3
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 3
- Racism. 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- Women missionaries. 3
- Animism. 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Caste. 2
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Christianity and culture. 2
- Church and state -- India. 2
- Communism. 2
- Conversion. 2
- Culture shock. 2
- Discrimination. 2
- Family. 2
- Hinduism 2
- Hinduism -- Doctrines. 2
- India -- History -- 1947- 2
- India -- History. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- India. 2
- Intercultural communication. 2
- Interpersonal conflict. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missions -- Educational work. 2
- Missions -- Finance. 2
- Missions -- India. 2
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Missions to Hindus. 2
- Missions. 2
- Sex role. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
- Worship. 2
- Africa, East. 1
- Africa, East. -- Religion 1
- Alcoholism -- United States 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History -- 1945- 1
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Animism -- South Africa. 1
- Apartheid. 1
- Belgium. 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Bible -- Translating. 1
- Bible colleges 1
- Bible colleges -- India. 1
- Bible. 1
- Boarding schools -- India. 1
- Boarding schools -- South Africa. 1
- Buddhism -- Doctrines. 1
- Buddhism -- Sri Lanka. 1
- Buddhism. 1
- Caste -- India. 1
- Caste. -- Sri Lanka. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Catholic Church. -- India. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Catholic Church. -- Missions -- South Africa. 1
- Catholic Church. -- South Africa. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Sri Lanka. 1
- Christian education -- Africa, East. 1
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Christian education -- Kenya. 1
- Christian education. 1
- Christian leadership. 1
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- Africa. 1
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- Sri Lanka. 1
- Christianity today (Periodical) 1
- Church and social problems -- Africa, East. 1
- Church and social problems. 1
- Church and state -- Africa, East. 1
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Church and state -- Kenya. 1
- Church and state -- Sri Lanka. 1
- Church growth -- India. 1
- Church growth. 1
- Church polity and Christian union. 1
- Church work with women. 1
- College students -- United States 1
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- College students in missionary work. 1 ∧ less
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