Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
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 290 Oral History Interview with Merle A. Steely
Collection
Identifier: CN 290
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Merle Ashel Steely, who worked as a missionary with Sudan Interior Mission between 1951 and 1977 in Liberia and Nigeria. Topic discussed include: Steely's conversion while in military service, education and employment at Wheaton College (including the 1950 revival there), his missionary work in Liberia at radio station ELWA and with Sudan Interior Mission in Nigeria, teaching in mission and government schools, evangelism and church planting, Billy Graham's 1960...
Dates:
Created: 1984
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
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
Collection 402 Papers of Debbie Dortzbach
Collection
Identifier: CN 402
Scope and Contents
Audio recordings, including an oral history interview, diary, and several letters, relating to the career and ministry of Debbie Dortzbach, missionary to Kenya and Eritrea with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and later the Reformed Presbyterian Church from 1973 to 1988.Series: Audio TapesOne oral history interview with Debbie Dortzbach in which she describes her describes her childhood, education at Wheaton College, and missionary work in...
Dates:
Created: 1974-1989
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
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Evangelistic work. 7
- Indigenous church administration 7
- Medical care 7
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 7
- Church and state. 6
- Missionaries -- Training of. 6
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 6
- Missions -- Educational work. 6
- Children of missionaries. 5
- Language in missionary work. 5
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 5
- Women 5
- Women -- Religious life. 5
- Women missionaries. 5
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 4
- Christian education. 4
- College students. 4
- Evangelicalism. 4
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 4
- Missions to Muslims. 4
- Muslims. 4
- Tribes. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 4
- Catholic Church. 3
- Christianity and culture. 3
- Church and social problems. 3
- Church and state -- Nigeria. 3
- College students -- United States 3
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 3
- Conversion. 3
- Ethiopia 3
- Ethiopia -- History 3
- Ethiopia -- History -- Revolution, 1974. 3
- Ethiopia -- Religion. 3
- Family. 3
- Great Britain 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 3
- Hausa (African people) 3
- Indigenous church administration -- Nigeria. 3
- Medical care -- Nigeria. 3
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
- Missions -- Ethiopia. 3
- Missions -- Nigeria. 3
- Missions, Medical -- Nigeria. 3
- Tribes -- Nigeria. 3
- Alcoholism -- United States 2
- Animism. 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Children of clergy. 2
- Children of clergy. -- United States. 2
- Children. 2
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
- China -- History. 2
- Christian education -- Niger. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Christianity and culture -- Kenya. 2
- Church and state -- Niger. 2
- Church development, New. 2
- Church growth -- Niger. 2
- Church growth -- Nigeria. 2
- Church growth. 2
- Church work with women -- Niger. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- Communism. 2
- Culture shock. 2
- Education, Higher 2
- Education, Higher -- United States. 2
- Eritrea (Ethiopia) 2
- Eritrea (Ethiopia) -- History 2
- Ethiopia -- Social life and customs. 2
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 2
- Evangelistic work -- China. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Niger. 2
- France 2
- France -- Colonies 2
- France -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Hausa (African people) -- Niger. 2
- Hausa language. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Niger. 2
- International relief -- Niger. 2
- International relief. 2
- Lay missionaries. 2
- Medical care -- Niger. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missions -- China. 2
- Missions -- Congresses -- United States. 2
- Missions -- Congresses. 2
- Missions -- Finance. 2
- Missions -- Niger. 2
- Missions -- Rural work. 2
- Missions to Muslims -- Niger. 2
- Missions to Muslims -- Nigeria. 2
- Missions, Medical -- Kenya. 2 ∧ less
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