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 093 Oral History Interview with Earl A. Winsor
Collection
Identifier: CN 093
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Earl Austin Winsor (1897-1983) in which he discusses his education at Wheaton College as a student (1919-1920) and teacher (1920-25, history, and 1939-1949, math and physics) and his missionary experiences in Africa under Africa Inland Mission, serving in what is now Zaire. Wheaton personalities, mission experiences, especially those relating to his education work, and analysis of his exposure to African government, churches, tribal customs, and health practices....
Dates:
Created: 1979-1980
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 284 Oral History Interview with Gladys Wright
Collection
Identifier: CN 284
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Gladys Lyle Wright (1902-1994), in which she discusses her work as a teacher in Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo). Topics discussed include: Wright's family background, education at Wheaton College and Moody Bible Institute, her work as a missionary in the Belgian Congo for the Africa Inland Mission, memories of the Congolese people and culture, and her experiences at Wheaton when she was on the staff of the College after retriring from the mission...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Collection 289 Oral History Interview with G. Paul Groen
Collection
Identifier: CN 289
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Paul Groen in which he describes his education at Wheaton College, missionary work the Christian Reformed Church in Nigeria and the Nigerian church, particularly among the Tiv people, and the country's economy, educational system and political history between 1964 and 1973. Other topics discussed include: Tiv customs and religion, the church among the Tiv and its indigenous leadership and transition of leadership from missionaries, relations with Roman Catholics...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Collection 290 Oral History Interview with Merle A. Steely
Collection
Identifier: CN 290
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Merle Ashel Steely, who worked as a missionary with Sudan Interior Mission between 1951 and 1977 in Liberia and Nigeria. Topic discussed include: Steely's conversion while in military service, education and employment at Wheaton College (including the 1950 revival there), his missionary work in Liberia at radio station ELWA and with Sudan Interior Mission in Nigeria, teaching in mission and government schools, evangelism and church planting, Billy Graham's 1960...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Collection 312 Papers of Diane W. Hawkins
Collection
Identifier: CN 312
Scope and Contents
Collection 312 consists of letters, oral history interviews, articles, minutes of meetings, reports and other relating to Diane Hawkins' missionary service in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) as well as the tapes of an oral history interview conducted several years later. Among the topics covered are: TEAM's evangelistic, and educational work in Rhodesia; the lifestyle, music, and beliefs of Shona people; the civil war between white government and the black nationalist guerrillas which raged while...
Dates:
Created: 1970-1985
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
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Evangelistic work. 9
- Indigenous church administration 9
- Medical care 9
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 9
- Christianity and culture. 8
- Education 8
- Language in missionary work. 8
- Missionaries -- Training of. 8
- Tribes. 8
- Catholic Church. 7
- Christian education. 7
- Church and state. 7
- Conversion. 7
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 7
- Children of missionaries. 6
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 5
- Women missionaries. 5
- Worship (Christian) 5
- Church and social problems. 4
- Culture shock. 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 4
- Missions -- Educational work. 4
- Missions -- Finance. 4
- Religious institutions. 4
- Women 4
- Women -- Religious life. 4
- Belgium. 3
- Belgium. -- Colonies 3
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
- Bible -- Translating. 3
- Bible. 3
- Boarding schools. 3
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 3
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- College students -- Religious life. 3
- College students. 3
- Communism. 3
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 3
- Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Family. 3
- Medical care -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 3
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Missions to Muslims. 3
- Race relations. 3
- Racism. 3
- Social change. 3
- Syncretism (Religion). 3
- Theological seminaries. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 3
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Animism -- Guatemala. 2
- Animism -- Nigeria. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Catholic Church. -- Guatemala. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- Children. 2
- Christian education -- Kenya. 2
- Christian education -- United States. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Church development, New. 2
- Church discipline. 2
- Church work with children. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- Demoniac possession 2
- Education -- Guatemala. 2
- Education -- Nigeria. 2
- Education -- United States. 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Guatemala. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Nigeria. 2
- Family -- United States. 2
- Fund raising. 2
- Great Britain 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 2
- Guatemala 2
- Guatemala -- Economic conditions. 2
- Guatemala -- Race relations. 2
- Guatemala -- Religion 2
- Indians of Central America 2
- Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Missions. 2
- Indians of Central America -- Guatemala. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Guatemala. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Nigeria. 2
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 2
- Ixil Indians -- Missions. 2
- Ixil Indians -- Religion. 2
- Ixil Indians. 2
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