Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 12 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 351 Oral History Interview with Burt E. Long
Collection
Identifier: CN 351
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Burt E. Long by Wheaton College student Heather Conley in which Long discusses his memories of Paul Rader and the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, his education at Wheaton College, and his decades of services as a medical missionary for Sudan Interior Mission in Niger and Nigeria. The time period covered by the interviews is 1930-1986.
Burt Long was interviewed by Wheaton College student Heather Conley on November 26 and December 3, 1986.
Dates:
Created: 1986
Congress on the Church's Worldwide Mission Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 021
Scope and Contents
Materials relating to the Congress on the Church's Worldwide Mission which was held on the Wheaton College campus in 1966 and was jointly sponsored by the Evangelical Foreign Missions Association and the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association. Audio tapes document various sessions of the Congress, including biblical expositions, study papers (on subjects like syncretism, church growth, cooperation, the Catholic Church and social issues), reports on missions on the world's...
Dates:
Created: 1964-1967
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
/
Helen Renich Papers.
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- Indigenous church administration 11
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 10
- Missionaries. 10
- Children of missionaries. 9
- Medical care 9
- Missionaries -- Training of. 9
- Language in missionary work. 8
- Missions -- Educational work. 8
- Tribes. 8
- Bible. 7
- Catholic Church. 7
- Church and state. 7
- Conversion. 7
- Education 7
- Women 7
- Women -- Religious life. 7
- Women missionaries. 7
- Christian education. 6
- Christianity and culture. 6
- Culture shock. 6
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 6
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 6
- Church growth. 5
- Family. 5
- Sex role. 5
- World War, 1939-1945. 5
- Animism. 4
- Bible -- Translating. 4
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 4
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 4
- Church and social problems. 4
- Church work with women. 4
- Great Britain 4
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 4
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 4
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 4
- Missions to Muslims. 4
- Muslims. 4
- Religious institutions. 4
- Theological seminaries. 4
- Worship (Christian) 4
- Boarding schools. 3
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
- Christian leadership. 3
- Christian life. 3
- Christian literature. 3
- Church and state -- Nigeria. 3
- College students. 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 3
- Indigenous church administration -- Nigeria. 3
- Medical care -- Nigeria. 3
- Missions -- India. 3
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Missions -- Nigeria. 3
- Missions to Muslims -- Nigeria. 3
- Missions, Medical -- Nigeria. 3
- Persecution. 3
- Revivals. 3
- Rural missions. 3
- Social change. 3
- Tribes -- Nigeria. 3
- Animism -- Guatemala. 2
- Bible colleges 2
- Caste. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Guatemala. 2
- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 2
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 2
- China -- History. 2
- Christian education -- United States. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Church growth -- India. 2
- Church schools 2
- Church work with children. 2
- Church work with women -- China. 2
- College students -- Religious life. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- Communism. 2
- Demoniac possession 2
- Demoniac possession -- Nigeria. 2
- Education -- Guatemala. 2
- Education -- India. 2
- Education -- United States. 2
- Education, Higher 2
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 2
- Evangelistic work -- China. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Guatemala. 2
- Evangelistic work -- India. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Nigeria. 2
- Fundamentalism. 2
- Guatemala 2
- Guatemala -- Economic conditions. 2
- Guatemala -- Race relations. 2
- Guatemala -- Religion 2
- Hausa (African people) 2
- Hausa language. 2
- India -- Description and travel. 2 ∧ less
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