Wheaton College (Ill.)
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Found in 8 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 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 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 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 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:
Other: -
Found in:
Special Collections
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Conversion Narratives Collection
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- Church and state. 7
- Evangelistic work. 7
- Indigenous church administration 7
- Language in missionary work. 7
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 7
- Catholic Church. 6
- Children of missionaries. 6
- Christian education. 6
- Missions -- Educational work. 6
- Christianity and culture. 5
- Missionaries -- Training of. 5
- Racism. 5
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 4
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 4
- Church and social problems. 4
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 4
- Persecution. 4
- Rural churches. 4
- Tribes. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 4
- Women 4
- Women -- Religious life. 4
- Women missionaries. 4
- Animism. 3
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 3
- China -- History. 3
- Communism -- China. 3
- Education 3
- Evangelistic work -- China. 3
- Great Britain 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 3
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
- Missions -- China. 3
- Missions -- Finance. 3
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Bible. 2
- Brethren Assemblies -- Missions. 2
- Children. 2
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 2
- Chinese -- Missions. 2
- Chinese. 2
- Christian education -- Zambia. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Church and state -- Zambia. 2
- Church development, New. 2
- Church work with children. 2
- Communism -- Zambia. 2
- Conversion. 2
- Culture shock. 2
- Education -- Zambia. 2
- Education, Higher 2
- Education, Higher -- United States. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Philippines. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Zambia. 2
- Family. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Zambia. 2
- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Jevovah's Witnesses -- Missions. 2
- Laity. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Medical care -- China. 2
- Medical care -- Zambia. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missionaries -- United States. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missions -- Africa -- Politics and government. 2
- Missions -- Africa. 2
- Missions -- India. 2
- Missions -- Philippines. 2
- Missions -- Zambia. 2
- Missions to Buddhists. 2
- Occultism. 2
- Racism -- Zambia. 2
- Religious institutions. 2
- Rural churches -- Zambia. 2
- Rural missions. 2
- Sex role. 2
- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 2
- Social change. 2
- Southern Lunda (African people) 2
- Superstition. 2
- Tribes -- Africa. 2
- Tribes -- Zambia. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Athletics. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 2
- World War, 1939-1945. 2
- Worship (Christian) 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 ∧ less
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