Wheaton College (Ill.)
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Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
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 289 Oral History Interview with G. Paul Groen
Collection
Identifier: CN 289
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Paul Groen in which he describes his education at Wheaton College, missionary work the Christian Reformed Church in Nigeria and the Nigerian church, particularly among the Tiv people, and the country's economy, educational system and political history between 1964 and 1973. Other topics discussed include: Tiv customs and religion, the church among the Tiv and its indigenous leadership and transition of leadership from missionaries, relations with Roman Catholics...
Dates:
Created: 1984
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 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 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 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: -
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Conversion Narratives Collection
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Church and state. 6
- Evangelistic work. 6
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 6
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 6
- Catholic Church. 5
- Christian education. 5
- Christianity and culture. 5
- Language in missionary work. 5
- Missions -- Educational work. 5
- Tribes. 5
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 4
- Children of missionaries. 4
- Communism. 4
- Education 4
- Great Britain 4
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 4
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 4
- Missionaries -- Training of. 4
- Missions -- Finance. 4
- Racism. 4
- Animism. 3
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 3
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
- Church development, New. 3
- Indigenous church administration -- Nigeria. 3
- Medical care -- Nigeria. 3
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- Missions -- Nigeria. 3
- Missions, Medical -- Nigeria. 3
- Rural churches. 3
- Superstition. 3
- Tribes -- Nigeria. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Athletics. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- Women missionaries. 3
- Worship (Christian) 3
- Alcoholism -- United States 2
- Animism -- Nigeria. 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Brethren Assemblies -- Missions. 2
- Christian education -- Zambia. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Church and state -- Nigeria. 2
- Church and state -- Zambia. 2
- Communism -- Zambia. 2
- Conversion. 2
- Demoniac possession 2
- Education -- Nigeria. 2
- Education -- Zambia. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Nigeria. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Zambia. 2
- Family. 2
- Hausa (African people) 2
- Hausa language. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Zambia. 2
- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- International relief. 2
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 2
- Jevovah's Witnesses -- Missions. 2
- Laity. 2
- Medical care -- Zambia. 2
- Missions -- Africa -- Politics and government. 2
- Missions -- Africa. 2
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Missions -- Zambia. 2
- Missions to Muslims -- Nigeria. 2
- Missions to Muslims. 2
- Muslims. 2
- Nigeria 2
- Nigeria -- Economic conditions. 2
- Nigeria -- History 2
- Nigeria -- History -- Civil War, 1967-1970. 2
- Nigeria -- Politics and government. 2
- Nigeria -- Religion. 2
- Occultism. 2
- Persecution. 2
- Racism -- Zambia. 2
- Rural churches -- Zambia. 2
- Rural missions. 2
- Sex role. 2
- Southern Lunda (African people) 2
- Tiv (African people) 2
- Tribes -- Africa. 2
- Tribes -- Zambia. 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
- Zambia -- Politics and government. 2
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service 1 ∧ less
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