Wheaton College (Ill.)
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Found in 6 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 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 347 Oral History Interview with Ruth M. Long
Collection
Identifier: CN 347
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Ruth Margaret (Hollander) Long in which she discusses her conversion, education at Wheaton College, work as a missionary for the Sudan Interior Mission tohgether with her husband Burt) in Niger and Nigeria from 1950 through 1984. Other topics discussed include raising a family on the mission field, development of an AWANA program for Hausa children, evangelistic activities, impressions of the French colonial system, the independence of Niger, Hamami Diori,...
Dates:
Created: 1986
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
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- Indigenous church administration 5
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 5
- Missionaries. 5
- Missions -- Educational work. 5
- Women 5
- Women -- Religious life. 5
- Christian education. 4
- Medical care 4
- Tribes. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 4
- Bible. 3
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 3
- Catholic Church. 3
- Children of missionaries. 3
- Church and state. 3
- Church work with women. 3
- Language in missionary work. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of. 3
- Missions -- India. 3
- Women missionaries. 3
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- Christian education -- Niger. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Church and state -- Niger. 2
- Church and state -- Nigeria. 2
- Church growth -- India. 2
- Church growth -- Niger. 2
- Church growth -- Nigeria. 2
- Church work with children. 2
- Church work with women -- Niger. 2
- Conversion. 2
- Education 2
- Education -- India. 2
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- India. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Niger. 2
- Family. 2
- France 2
- France -- Colonies 2
- France -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Great Britain 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 2
- Hausa (African people) 2
- Hausa (African people) -- Niger. 2
- India -- Description and travel. 2
- India -- History -- 1947- 2
- India -- History. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- India. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Niger. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Nigeria. 2
- International relief -- Niger. 2
- International relief. 2
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 2
- Medical care -- Niger. 2
- Medical care -- Nigeria. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missions -- Niger. 2
- Missions -- Nigeria. 2
- Missions to Muslims -- Niger. 2
- Missions to Muslims. 2
- Missions, Medical -- India. 2
- Missions, Medical -- Nigeria. 2
- Muslims -- Niger. 2
- Muslims. 2
- Niger 2
- Niger -- Economic conditions. 2
- Niger -- Social conditions. 2
- Refugees 2
- Sex role. 2
- Theology 2
- Tribes -- Niger. 2
- Tribes -- Nigeria. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 2
- Baptism. 1
- Bible -- Inspiration. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution -- China. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 1
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
- Bible colleges 1
- Bible colleges -- India. 1
- Blocher, Jacques -- Sermons. 1
- Buddhists -- China. 1
- Buddhists. 1
- Caste -- India. 1
- Caste. 1
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 1
- Catholic Church -- Relations 1
- Catholic Church. -- Missions -- Niger. 1
- Children -- United States 1
- Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 1
- Children. 1
- Children. -- Niger 1
- Children. -- Niger -- Conversion to Christianity. 1
- Children. -- Niger -- Societies and clubs. 1
- China -- Description and travel. 1 ∧ less
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