Wheaton College (Ill.)
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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 110 Ephemera of Donald E. McDowell
Collection
Identifier: CN 110
Scope and Contents
Collection of 643 slides which document Donald E. McDowell's mission work and activity in Paraguay. Scenic views, native flora, mission personnel, mission facilities, national churchmen and pastors are some of the subjects illustrated by the collection.When the collection was received by the Archives, the slides were arranged in sets and were accompanied by an attached description and date for each picture. The original order of the slides was maintained. Three unidentified...
Dates:
Created: 1951-1973
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 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 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
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- Subject
- Conversion. 5
- Indigenous church administration 5
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 5
- Missionaries. 5
- Tribes. 5
- Missionaries -- Training of. 4
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 4
- Children of missionaries. 3
- Christian education. 3
- Church and social problems. 3
- Church and state. 3
- Culture shock. 3
- Language in missionary work. 3
- Missions -- China. 3
- Rural missions. 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- Women missionaries. 3
- World War, 1939-1945. 3
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
- China -- History. 2
- Christian education -- United States. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Christianity and culture. 2
- Christianity and other religions. 2
- Church and social problems -- China. 2
- Drug traffic 2
- Drug traffic -- China. 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- China. 2
- Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) 2
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 2
- Leprosy -- China. 2
- Medical care -- China. 2
- Mennonites 2
- Mennonites -- Missions. 2
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
- Missions to Muslims. 2
- Missions, Medical -- China. 2
- Muslims. 2
- Opium trade 2
- Opium trade -- China. 2
- Persecution. 2
- Presbyterians. 2
- Rural missions -- China. 2
- Tai (Southeast Asian people) 2
- Theology 2
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 2
- Tribes -- China. 2
- United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. -- Missions. 2
- Amharic language. 1
- Animism -- Ethiopia. 1
- Animism. 1
- Baptism. 1
- Baptists -- Missions -- Paraguay. 1
- Baptists -- Missions. 1
- Baptists. 1
- Bible colleges 1
- Bible colleges -- India. 1
- Caste -- India. 1
- Caste. 1
- Catholic Church. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Paraguay. 1
- Children -- Religious life. 1
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 1
- Children. 1
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 1
- Chinese -- Missions. 1
- Chinese. 1
- Christian education -- Paraguay. 1
- Christian martyrs -- China. 1
- Christian martyrs. 1
- Christianity and culture -- United States. 1
- Church and state -- Ethiopia. 1
- Church and state -- India. 1
- Church and state -- Nigeria. 1
- Church architecture. 1
- Church architecture. -- Paraguay. 1
- Church growth -- India. 1
- Church growth. 1
- Church work with women -- Nigeria. 1
- Church work with women. 1
- Cities and towns -- Paraguay. 1
- Cities and towns. 1
- City missions. 1
- College students -- United States 1
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- College students in missionary work. 1
- College students. 1
- Communism -- China. 1
- Communism -- Ethiopia. 1
- Communism. 1
- Cooperative societies 1
- Cooperative societies -- China. 1 ∧ less
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