Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 088 Papers of Paul and Catharine Gieser
Collection
Identifier: CN 088
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Kenneth Gieser and letters reporting to the Southern Presbyterian Mission Board in Nashville, TN on the Gieser’s work in China, written between October 19, 1934, and November 1, 1936. Also contains audio tapes and transcripts of autobiographical statements.
Dates:
Created: 1934-1979
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 092 Ephemera of Robert B. Ekvall
Collection
Identifier: CN 092
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, correspondence, photographs, and a manuscript that describe Robert B. Ekvall's education at Wheaton College, work as a missionary in China and Tibet, and military and diplomatic activities during World War II and after in China and Southeast Asia.
Dates:
Created: 1933-1980
Collection 115 Oral History Interview with Raymond Elliott
Collection
Identifier: CN 115
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Raymond Leroy Elliott (1924-2008), Wycliffe Bible translator working among the Ixil Indian tribe in Guatemala. Interview topics include educational work and life in Wheaton, translation activities, missionary training, mission responsibilities, and political, social, and cultural events in Central America. The time period covered by the interviews is roughly 1924-1980.Raymond Elliott was interviewed by Chris Matthews, a Wheaton College graduate...
Dates:
Created: 1980
Collection 116 Oral History Interviews with Helen Elliott
Collection
Identifier: CN 116
Scope and Contents
Oral History interviews conducted with Helen Ruth Belcher Elliot (1927-2012), missionary with Wycliffe Bible Translators to the Ixil Indian tribe in Guatemala. Topics include Wheaton College during the 1940s, field experiences, Guatemalan culture and religion, and family activities. Topics covered in the interview include: Elliott's childhood, marriage and early family life, education at Wheaton College (including courses, academic and social life), decision to become a missionary with...
Dates:
Created: 1980
Collection 169 Oral History Interviews with Harold P. Adolph
Collection
Identifier: CN 169
Scope and Contents
Oral History Interview with Harold Paul Adolph, in which he discusses his boyhood in China as the son of missionaries with China Inland Mission, conditions in China, his education at Wheaton College, medical education at the University of Pennsylvania, decision to become a missionary, and his ministry in Ethiopia as a medical missionary in African with Sudan Interior Mission; American missions in Ethiopia; family life on the mission field, and work with the Christian Medical Society. The...
Dates:
Created: 1981
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 242 Oral History Interview with Ruth E. Hess
Collection
Identifier: CN 242
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Ruth Edna DeVelde Hess (1909-1997), a missionary with the Plymouth Brethren Church at Sakeji School for missionary children in Zambia. Topics discussed include: Hess' life as a child in Wheaton, Illinois, and education at Wheaton Academy and Wheaton College; marriage to Lyndon Roth Hess; calling to be teachers of missionary children; decision to go to Africa; their work at Sakeji School from 1932 to 1982; and descriptions of life and customs in Zambia among the...
Dates:
Created: 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 262 Oral History Interview with Raymond Buker Jr.
Collection
Identifier: CN 262
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Raymond Bates Buker in which he describes growing up in Burma as the child of missionaries, his education at Wheaton College, his decision to become a missionary under the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society, language study; evangelization, church planting, translation, medical missions and education activities in Pakistan, working with Muslims and the Sindhi, Bhils, and Marwari tribal people, 1954-1969. Other topics discussed include: the culture,...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Collection 299 Oral History Interview with Ruth M. Thomas
Collection
Identifier: CN 299
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Ruth M. Thomas about her family and religious background, conversion, recollections of Billy Sunday's campaign in Scranton, PA in 1914, her education at Wheaton College, call to foreign missions, work as a missionary nurse with the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions in a rehabilitation program of a leper colony in southwestern China along the Burmese border among the Tai-Lu people, language study, worship and use of music, an anti-opium campaign, and a...
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 335 Papers of Ralph E. Shannon
Collection
Identifier: CN 335
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and paper records relating to Ralph Shannon’s life and ministry as a medical missionary in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo).Audio Tapes Four oral history interviews with Ralph Shannon, recorded on eight reels of audio tape. Topics covered include Shannon's childhood in Belgian Congo (Zaire) with his missionary parents, Wheaton College undergraduate and graduate education, service in Zaire as a medical...
Dates:
Created: 1986-1990
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 468 Oral History Interviews with Elizabeth C. Stough
Collection
Identifier: CN 468
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Elizabeth Quackenbush Stough (1913-2009) in which she discusses her parents, childhood, education, conversion, attendance at Moody Bible Institute, call to be a missionary, joining Africa Inland Mission, travel to Africa, work in French Equatorial Africa, evangelistic field trips, her husband Paul Stough, her work among women in the Belgian Congo, the growth of the Africa Inland Church, the independence of the Congo, the Congolese civil war and Simba uprising,...
Dates:
Created: 1992-1993
Collection 567 Papers of H. Wilbert Norton
Collection
Identifier: CN 567
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, photographs, correspondence, reports, minutes, budgets, pamphlets, and manuscripts relating to Gustav H.W. Norton's (1915-2017) work as an administrator and professor of theology and missiology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Wheaton College, as well as his involvement with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Evangelical Literature Overseas, and Mid-American Keswick. The collection documents Norton’s childhood, education, and career as professor of missions...
Dates:
Created: 1950-2000
Filtered By
- Subject: Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Evangelistic work. 16
- Children of missionaries. 12
- Church and state. 12
- Conversion. 12
- Indigenous church administration 12
- Language in missionary work. 11
- Medical care 10
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 10
- Women 10
- Women -- Religious life. 10
- Missions, Medical. 9
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 9
- Women missionaries. 9
- World War, 1939-1945. 9
- Tribes. 8
- Animism. 7
- Christianity and culture. 7
- Christian education. 6
- Culture shock. 6
- Missions -- Educational work. 6
- Bible -- Translating. 5
- Bible. 5
- Catholic Church. 5
- Christian leadership. 5
- Christian life. 5
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 5
- Christian literature. 5
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 5
- Intercultural communication. 5
- Religious institutions. 5
- Children. 4
- Church and social problems. 4
- College students in missionary work. 4
- College students. 4
- Education 4
- Evangelicalism. 4
- Family. 4
- Fund raising. 4
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 4
- Leprosy. 4
- Marriage. 4
- Missionaries -- United States. 4
- Missionaries' spouses. 4
- Missions -- China. 4
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
- Missions to Muslims. 4
- Missions. 4
- Muslims. 4
- Sex role. 4
- Worship (Christian) 4
- Worship. 4
- Boarding schools. 3
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
- China -- History. 3
- Christianity and other religions. 3
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Church work with women. 3
- College students -- United States 3
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 3
- Communism. 3
- Evangelistic work -- China. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Great Britain 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 3
- Medical care -- Guatemala. 3
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 3
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 3
- Nationalism. 3
- Occultism 3
- Pentecostalism. 3
- Persecution. 3
- Presbyterians. 3
- Rural missions. 3
- Social change. 3
- Aeronautics in missionary work. 2
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Animism -- Guatemala. 2
- Belgium. 2
- Belief and doubt. 2
- Bible colleges 2
- Caste. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Guatemala. 2
- Children -- United States 2
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 2
- Christian education -- Africa, East. 2
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Christian education -- United States. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Christian martyrs. 2
- Church and social problems -- China. 2
- Communism -- China. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 2 ∧ less
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