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Wheaton College (Ill.)

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Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

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 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 186 Papers of M. Douglas Hursh

 Collection
Identifier: CN 186
Scope and Contents Two oral history interviews, manuscript material, photographs, and memorabilia relatingn to Marion Douglas Hursh's work with Sudan Interior Mission's Kano Eye Hospital, Kano in Nigeria from 1942-1962. Topics covered concern Hursh's education and work as a medical missionary at the Sudan Interior Mission's Kano Eye Hospital in Kano, Nigeria, as well as various aspects of church life and mission activity in Nigeria.  Events described in the interviews cover the time period from 1904 to...
Dates: Created: 1904-1982

Collection 317 Oral History Interview with Ian H. and Ruth E. Cook

 Collection
Identifier: CN 317
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Ian Harper Cooke and Ruth Eileen (Witmer) Cook, in which Ian describes his childhood and education in South Africa, college education at Wheaton College, training for missionary work, medical missions work in South Africa with The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM), the Zulus, apartheid, and the national church; and Ruth describes her childhood, conversion, and intention to become a missionary nurse, education at West Suburban Hospital and Wheaton College,...
Dates: Created: 1985

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

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

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

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  • Subject: Missions, Medical X
  • Subject: Evangelicalism. X

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Subject
Missionaries. 7
Missionaries -- Training of. 6
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 6
Christian education. 5
Conversion. 5
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Missions -- Educational work. 5
Women 5
Women -- Religious life. 5
Women missionaries. 5
Children of missionaries. 4
Church and social problems. 4
Church and state. 4
Evangelicalism -- United States. 4
Indigenous church administration 4
Medical care 4
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
Missionaries' spouses. 4
Missions to Muslims. 4
Tribes. 4
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 4
World War, 1939-1945. 4
Catholic Church -- Missions. 3
Catholic Church. 3
Christian education -- United States. 3
Church work with women. 3
Culture shock. 3
Evangelistic work -- China. 3
Family. 3
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 3
Language in missionary work. 3
Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
Missions -- China. 3
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
Missions -- Nigeria. 3
Muslims. 3
Religious institutions. 3
Animism. 2
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
Children. 2
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
China -- History. 2
Christianity and culture -- United States. 2
Christianity and culture. 2
Christianity and other religions. 2
Church and social problems -- United States. 2
Church and state -- Nigeria. 2
Church growth. 2
College students -- United States 2
College students -- United States -- Religious life. 2
College students. 2
Ethiopia 2
Ethiopia -- History 2
Ethiopia -- History -- Revolution, 1974. 2
Ethiopia -- Religion. 2
Evangelistic work -- South Africa. 2
Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
Fundamentalism. 2
Great Britain 2
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
Great Britain -- Colonies. 2
Indigenous church administration -- Nigeria. 2
Leprosy. 2
Medical care -- Nigeria. 2
Missionaries -- United States. 2
Missions -- Africa. 2
Missions -- Asia. 2
Missions -- Congresses -- United States. 2
Missions -- Congresses. 2
Missions -- Ethiopia. 2
Missions -- Europe. 2
Missions -- Finance. 2
Missions -- Study and teaching. 2
Missions to Muslims -- Nigeria. 2
Missions, Medical -- Nigeria. 2
Missions. 2
Persecution. 2
Sermons, American. 2
Sex role. 2
Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 2
Theological seminaries -- United States. 2
Theological seminaries. 2
Tribes -- Nigeria. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 2
Worship. 2
African Americans -- Religious life. 1
African Americans. 1
Amharic language. 1
Animism -- Ethiopia. 1
Animism -- South Africa. 1
Apartheid. 1
Baptism. 1
Belief and doubt. 1
Bible -- Inspiration. 1
Bible. 1
Blocher, Jacques -- Sermons. 1
Boarding schools -- South Africa. 1
Boarding schools. 1
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