Wheaton College (Ill.)
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Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
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 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 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 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 401 Oral History Interview with Karl G. Dortzbach
Collection
Identifier: CN 401
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Karl G. Dortzbach in which he describes his childhood and youth, influence of his family, education at Wheaton College and Westminster Theological Seminary, and missionary experience in Ethiopia (short term with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church) and in Kenya. Subjects covered include missiology, conversion, raising children on the mission field, marital relationships on the mission field, church life in a Nairobi congregation, proliferation of parachurch groups...
Dates:
Created: 1988-1989
Collection 402 Papers of Debbie Dortzbach
Collection
Identifier: CN 402
Scope and Contents
Audio recordings, including an oral history interview, diary, and several letters, relating to the career and ministry of Debbie Dortzbach, missionary to Kenya and Eritrea with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and later the Reformed Presbyterian Church from 1973 to 1988.Series: Audio TapesOne oral history interview with Debbie Dortzbach in which she describes her describes her childhood, education at Wheaton College, and missionary work in...
Dates:
Created: 1974-1989
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
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:
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Special Collections
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Conversion Narratives Collection
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- Evangelistic work. 8
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 8
- Medical care 7
- Missionaries -- Training of. 7
- Missions -- Educational work. 7
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 7
- Women missionaries. 7
- Church and state. 6
- Education 6
- Missions -- Finance. 6
- Catholic Church. 5
- Christian education. 5
- Christianity and culture. 5
- Church development, New. 5
- College students. 5
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 5
- Tribes. 5
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 5
- Women 5
- Women -- Religious life. 5
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 4
- Conversion. 4
- Family. 4
- Missionaries' spouses. 4
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 4
- Boarding schools. 3
- Christian life. 3
- College students -- United States 3
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 3
- College students in missionary work. 3
- Communism. 3
- Great Britain 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 3
- India -- History -- 1947- 3
- India -- History. 3
- Indigenous church administration -- India. 3
- Missions -- India. 3
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Racism. 3
- Sex role. 3
- Superstition. 3
- Theological seminaries. 3
- Alcoholism -- United States 2
- Animism. 2
- Bible colleges 2
- Brethren Assemblies -- Missions. 2
- Caste. 2
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
- Children of clergy. 2
- Children of clergy. -- United States. 2
- Christian education -- Zambia. 2
- Christianity and culture -- Kenya. 2
- Church and state -- India. 2
- Church and state -- Zambia. 2
- Church growth -- India. 2
- Church growth. 2
- Church schools 2
- Church work with children. 2
- College students -- Religious life. 2
- Communism -- Zambia. 2
- Culture shock. 2
- Education -- India. 2
- Education -- Zambia. 2
- Education, Higher 2
- Education, Higher -- India. 2
- Eritrea (Ethiopia) 2
- Eritrea (Ethiopia) -- History 2
- Ethiopia 2
- Ethiopia -- History 2
- Ethiopia -- History -- Revolution, 1974. 2
- Ethiopia -- Religion. 2
- Ethiopia -- Social life and customs. 2
- Evangelistic work -- India. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Zambia. 2
- Hinduism 2
- Hinduism -- Doctrines. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Zambia. 2
- Intercultural communication. 2
- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Jevovah's Witnesses -- Missions. 2
- Laity. 2
- Lay missionaries. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Medical care -- Zambia. 2
- Missions -- Africa -- Politics and government. 2
- Missions -- Africa. 2
- Missions -- Congresses -- United States. 2
- Missions -- Congresses. 2
- Missions -- Ethiopia. 2
- Missions -- Rural work. 2
- Missions -- Zambia. 2 ∧ less
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