Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 6 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 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 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 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
Helen Renich Papers.
Collection
Identifier: CN 124
Brief Description
Two oral history interviews with Helen Gignilliat Torrey Renich in which she describes her grandfather, Reuben Archer Torrey, Sr., and her experiences growing up in China as a child of missionaries. Other topics discussed include her experiences at Wheaton College and culture shock. The collection also includes photographs of her family life in China and Chinese nationals, ca. 1920-30s.Helen Renich was interviewed by Robert Shuster on May 15, 1980 in Michigan and on May 17, 1982...
Dates:
Created: 1920-1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Helen Renich Papers.
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
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Moody Church Records
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Conversion. 5
- Missionaries. 5
- Missions -- Educational work. 5
- Women 5
- Women -- Religious life. 5
- Women missionaries. 5
- Church and social problems. 4
- Indigenous church administration 4
- Language in missionary work. 4
- Medical care 4
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 4
- Missions -- China. 4
- Children of missionaries. 3
- Christian education. 3
- Christianity and culture. 3
- Education 3
- Evangelistic work -- China. 3
- Medical care -- China. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
- Presbyterians. 3
- Theological seminaries. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 3
- World War, 1939-1945. 3
- Worship (Christian) 3
- Bible. 2
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
- China -- History. 2
- Christian education -- United States. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Church and social problems -- China. 2
- Church and social problems -- United States. 2
- Church and state. 2
- Church work with children. 2
- Education, Higher 2
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Family. 2
- Fundamentalism. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
- Missionaries -- United States. 2
- Missions -- Finance. 2
- Missions, Medical -- China. 2
- Presbyterian Church -- Missions. 2
- Presbyterian Church. 2
- Religious institutions. 2
- Sex role. 2
- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 2
- Sunday schools. 2
- Tribes. 2
- Africa, East. 1
- Africa, East. -- Religion 1
- African Americans -- Religious life. 1
- African Americans. 1
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Animism. 1
- Belgium. 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
- Bible -- Translating. 1
- Bible colleges. 1
- Boarding schools -- China. 1
- Boarding schools -- Korea. 1
- Boarding schools. 1
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 1
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 1
- Catholic Church. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Catholic Church. -- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Chicago (Ill.) 1
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Religion. 1
- Children -- United States 1
- Children -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- Children of missionaries -- China. 1
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 1
- Children. 1
- China -- Description and travel. 1
- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 1
- China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901. 1
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 1
- China -- Manners and customs. 1
- Chinese language. 1
- Christian drama. 1
- Christian education -- Africa, East. 1
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Christian education -- India. 1
- Christian education -- Kenya. 1
- Christian education -- Philosophy. 1
- Christian education -- Study and teaching. 1
- Christian education, Outdoor -- United States. 1
- Christian education, Outdoor. 1
- Christian leadership. 1
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- Africa. 1
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 1 ∧ less
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