Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 10 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 282 Oral History Interview with Bonnie Jo Adolph
Collection
Identifier: CN 282
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Bonnie Jo Adelsman Adolph in which she discussses her missionary service in Ethiopia with Sudan Interior Mission from 1966-1974. Topics discussed include Adolph's education at Wheaton College, decision to become a missionary, living in Taiwan during her husband's military service, reasons for choosing Sudan Interior Mission, her husband's medical work in Ethiopia, observations about Sudanese culture, the church in Sudan, and the Adolphs short term mission service...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Collection 284 Oral History Interview with Gladys Wright
Collection
Identifier: CN 284
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Gladys Lyle Wright (1902-1994), in which she discusses her work as a teacher in Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo). Topics discussed include: Wright's family background, education at Wheaton College and Moody Bible Institute, her work as a missionary in the Belgian Congo for the Africa Inland Mission, memories of the Congolese people and culture, and her experiences at Wheaton when she was on the staff of the College after retriring from the mission...
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 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. 9
- Medical care 9
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 9
- Women missionaries. 9
- Children of missionaries. 8
- Church and state. 8
- Indigenous church administration 8
- Missionaries -- Training of. 8
- Language in missionary work. 7
- Women 7
- Women -- Religious life. 7
- Conversion. 6
- Missionaries' spouses. 6
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 5
- Christian education. 5
- Christianity and culture. 5
- College students. 5
- Family. 5
- Missions -- Educational work. 5
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 5
- Animism. 4
- Church and social problems. 4
- Ethiopia 4
- Ethiopia -- Religion. 4
- Evangelicalism. 4
- Missions -- Ethiopia. 4
- Missions to Muslims. 4
- Persecution. 4
- Sex role. 4
- Tribes. 4
- Boarding schools. 3
- Catholic Church. 3
- Children. 3
- Christian life. 3
- Church development, New. 3
- College students -- United States 3
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 3
- College students in missionary work. 3
- Communism. 3
- Culture shock. 3
- Demoniac possession 3
- Ethiopia -- History 3
- Ethiopia -- History -- Revolution, 1974. 3
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
- Missions -- Finance. 3
- Muslims. 3
- Religious institutions. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 3
- World War, 1939-1945. 3
- Worship (Christian) 3
- Alcoholism -- United States 2
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
- Children -- United States 2
- Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 2
- Children of clergy. 2
- Children of clergy. -- United States. 2
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
- China -- History. 2
- Christian education -- United States. 2
- Christianity and culture -- Kenya. 2
- Christianity and culture -- United States. 2
- Christianity and other religions. 2
- Church and state -- Ethiopia. 2
- Church and state -- Nigeria. 2
- Church work with children. 2
- College students -- Religious life. 2
- Demoniac possession -- Nigeria. 2
- Education 2
- Education, Higher 2
- Education, Higher -- United States. 2
- Eritrea (Ethiopia) 2
- Eritrea (Ethiopia) -- History 2
- Ethiopia -- Social life and customs. 2
- Evangelistic work -- China. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Ethiopia. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Nigeria. 2
- Great Britain 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Nigeria. 2
- Lay missionaries. 2
- Leprosy. 2
- Medical care -- Ethiopia. 2
- Medical care -- Nigeria. 2
- Missions -- China. 2
- Missions -- Congresses -- United States. 2
- Missions -- Congresses. 2
- Missions -- Nigeria. 2
- Missions -- Rural work. 2
- Missions to Muslims -- Nigeria. 2
- Missions, Medical -- Ethiopia. 2
- Missions, Medical -- Kenya. 2
- Missions, Medical -- Nigeria. 2 ∧ less
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