Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 083 Papers of Richard E. Scheel
Collection
Identifier: CN 083
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, slides, photographs, correspondence and a personal diary created by Dr. Richard E. Scheel, missionary to Ethiopia with Sudan Interior Mission (S.I.M.) from 1951-1971.
Dates:
Created: 1953-1970
Collection 088 Papers of Paul and Catharine Gieser
Collection
Identifier: CN 088
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Kenneth Gieser and letters reporting to the Southern Presbyterian Mission Board in Nashville, TN on the Gieser’s work in China, written between October 19, 1934, and November 1, 1936. Also contains audio tapes and transcripts of autobiographical statements.
Dates:
Created: 1934-1979
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 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 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 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 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
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
Moody Church Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 330
Brief Description
Correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, church bulletins, minutes of meetings, and other records documenting the activities of the influential independent Chicago church started by Dwight L. Moody; chiefly from ca. 1910 through 1946.Topics documented include worship services, Sunday school, the weekly activities of the congregation, the governance of the body, and various urban evangelistic outreaches of the church. Besides the history of the church, the collection also documents...
Dates:
Created: 1864-1987
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
/
Moody Church Records
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Missionaries. 10
- Medical care 9
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 9
- Language in missionary work. 8
- Conversion. 7
- Indigenous church administration 7
- Missions -- Educational work. 7
- Christianity and culture. 6
- Church and state. 6
- Missionaries -- Training of. 6
- Missions -- China. 6
- Tribes. 6
- Women missionaries. 6
- Christian education. 5
- Evangelistic work -- China. 5
- Rural missions. 5
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 5
- Women 5
- Women -- Religious life. 5
- World War, 1939-1945. 5
- Animism. 4
- Catholic Church. 4
- Children of missionaries. 4
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 4
- China -- History. 4
- Communism. 4
- Evangelicalism. 4
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 4
- Medical care -- China. 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 4
- Missions to Muslims. 4
- Religious institutions. 4
- Worship (Christian) 4
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 3
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
- Children. 3
- Christian life. 3
- Church and social problems -- China. 3
- Church work with children. 3
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 3
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 3
- Leprosy. 3
- Missionaries -- United States. 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- Missions, Medical -- China. 3
- Muslims. 3
- Persecution. 3
- Presbyterians. 3
- Sex role. 3
- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 3
- Social change. 3
- Theological seminaries. 3
- Bible. 2
- Children -- United States 2
- Children -- United States -- Religious life. 2
- China -- Description and travel. 2
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 2
- Chinese -- Missions. 2
- Chinese. 2
- Christian education -- United States. 2
- Christian education, Outdoor -- United States. 2
- Christian education, Outdoor. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Christian martyrs -- China. 2
- Christian martyrs. 2
- Church and social problems -- United States. 2
- Church and state -- Ethiopia. 2
- Church discipline. 2
- Church growth. 2
- Church work with youth. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- College students. 2
- Communism -- China. 2
- Culture shock. 2
- Demoniac possession 2
- Drug traffic 2
- Drug traffic -- China. 2
- Economic and social conditions 2
- Education 2
- Ethiopia 2
- Ethiopia -- History 2
- Ethiopia -- Religion. 2
- Evangelistic invitations. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Ethiopia. 2
- Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) 2
- Great Britain 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 2
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 2
- Leprosy -- China. 2
- Medical care -- Ethiopia. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missions -- Africa. 2
- Missions -- Asia. 2
- Missions -- Ethiopia. 2
- Missions -- Europe. 2 ∧ less
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