Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
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 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 298 Papers of Howard E. Thomas
Collection
Identifier: CN 298
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Howard E. Thomas in which he describes his family background, Christian life and growth, education at Stony Brook School and Wheaton College, missionary work with the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions among lepers of the Tai-Lu people along the Burmese border in southwestern China, internment by the Japanese in Thailand, contextualization of the gospel, expulsion from the area by the Chinese army involved in opium trade. Description of Stony Brook School...
Dates:
Created: 1946-1985
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 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 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
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- Subject
- Christianity and culture. 6
- Conversion. 6
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 6
- Women missionaries. 6
- Children of missionaries. 5
- Medical care 5
- Missionaries -- Training of. 5
- Tribes. 5
- Women 5
- Women -- Religious life. 5
- Family. 4
- Bible. 3
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
- Christian education. 3
- Church and social problems. 3
- Church and state. 3
- College students. 3
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
- Missions -- Educational work. 3
- Religious institutions. 3
- Rural missions. 3
- Theological seminaries. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 3
- Animism. 2
- Bible -- Translating. 2
- Children of clergy. 2
- Children of clergy. -- United States. 2
- Christianity and culture -- Kenya. 2
- Church and social problems -- China. 2
- Church work with children. 2
- College students -- United States 2
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 2
- Drug traffic 2
- Drug traffic -- China. 2
- Education 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 -- Kenya. 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) 2
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 2
- Lay missionaries. 2
- Leprosy -- China. 2
- Leprosy. 2
- Medical care -- China. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missions -- China. 2
- Missions -- Congresses -- United States. 2
- Missions -- Congresses. 2
- Missions -- Ethiopia. 2
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Missions -- Rural work. 2
- Missions -- Study and teaching. 2
- Missions, Medical -- China. 2
- Missions, Medical -- Kenya. 2
- Nairobi (Kenya) 2
- Nairobi (Kenya) -- Religion. 2
- Opium trade 2
- Opium trade -- China. 2
- Presbyterians. 2
- Rural missions -- China. 2
- Tai (Southeast Asian people) 2
- Tribes -- China. 2
- United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. -- Missions. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Social life and customs. 2
- World War, 1939-1945. 2
- Animism -- Guatemala. 1
- Animism -- Zimbabwe. 1
- Athletes 1
- Athletes -- United States 1
- Athletes -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- Bhil (Indic people) 1
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
- Boarding schools. 1
- Caste. 1
- Caste. -- Pakistan. 1
- Catholic Church. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Guatemala. 1
- Children -- United States 1
- Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 1
- Children -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- Children. 1
- Children. -- Zimbabwe 1
- Children. -- Zimbabwe -- Conversion to Christianity. 1
- Children. -- Zimbabwe -- History 1 ∧ less
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