Wheaton College (Ill.)
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Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 052 Oral History Interview with Esther Salzman
Collection
Identifier: CN 052
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Esther I. Salzman (1906-1996), a Wheaton College alumna and missionary to China in the 1940s and to the Philippines from 1950 to 1972. Topics discussed include her education at Wheaton College, medical work in China and the Philippines, and Communism in China. The time period covered by the interview is 1906 to 1978.
Esther Salzman was interviewed by Wheaton College student Fred Baker on October 28, 1978 at her home in Kankakee, IL.
Dates:
Created: 1978
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 228 Oral History Interview with Lyndon Hess
Collection
Identifier: CN 228
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Lyndon Roth Hess in which he describes his missionary service in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) between 1932 and 1975 as a teacher of missionary children, assistant to village pastors and other work with the Lunda people. Topics include cultural influences on missionary children, education at Wheaton College, missionary service with Brethren Assemblies in Zambia teaching children of missionaries, the national African church, tribal tensions, Marxism, influence of...
Dates:
Created: 1982
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 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 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
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
Conversion Narratives Collection
Collection — Container: Books
Identifier: SC-228
Scope and Contents
The contents of the Conversion Narratives Collection may be searched in the library catalog using keyword: SC/228
Dates:
Other: -
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Special Collections
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Conversion Narratives Collection
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- Subject
- Language in missionary work. 8
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 8
- Missionaries. 8
- Education 7
- Medical care 7
- Missionaries -- Training of. 7
- Missions -- Educational work. 7
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 7
- Children of missionaries. 6
- Christianity and culture. 6
- Church and state. 6
- Indigenous church administration 6
- Tribes. 6
- Animism. 5
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 5
- Christian education. 5
- Missions -- Finance. 5
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 5
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 4
- Church development, New. 4
- Communism. 4
- Culture shock. 4
- Great Britain 4
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 4
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 4
- Racism. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 4
- Women missionaries. 4
- Boarding schools. 3
- Church and social problems. 3
- Conversion. 3
- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
- Missions -- Africa. 3
- Occultism. 3
- Superstition. 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- Worship (Christian) 3
- Belgium. 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Bible -- Translating. 2
- Bible. 2
- Brethren Assemblies -- Missions. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Christian education -- Zambia. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Church and state -- Zambia. 2
- College students -- Religious life. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- College students. 2
- Communism -- Zambia. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 2
- Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Education -- Zambia. 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Evangelistic work -- Zambia. 2
- Fund raising. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Zambia. 2
- Jevovah's Witnesses -- Missions. 2
- Laity. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Medical care -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Medical care -- Zambia. 2
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missions -- Africa -- Politics and government. 2
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 2
- Missions -- Zambia. 2
- Missions to Muslims. 2
- Race relations. 2
- Racism -- Zambia. 2
- Radio in missionary work. 2
- Religious institutions. 2
- Rural churches -- Zambia. 2
- Rural churches. 2
- Sex role. 2
- Southern Lunda (African people) 2
- Syncretism (Religion). 2
- Theological seminaries. 2
- Tribes -- Africa. 2
- Tribes -- Zambia. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Athletics. 2
- Zambia 2
- Zambia -- History 2
- Zambia -- History -- 1953-1964. 2
- Zambia -- History -- 1964- 2
- Zambia -- Politics and government -- 1964-1991 2
- Zambia -- Politics and government -- To 1964. 2
- Zambia -- Politics and government. 2
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