Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 9 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 115 Oral History Interview with Raymond Elliott
Collection
Identifier: CN 115
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Raymond Leroy Elliott (1924-2008), Wycliffe Bible translator working among the Ixil Indian tribe in Guatemala. Interview topics include educational work and life in Wheaton, translation activities, missionary training, mission responsibilities, and political, social, and cultural events in Central America. The time period covered by the interviews is roughly 1924-1980.Raymond Elliott was interviewed by Chris Matthews, a Wheaton College graduate...
Dates:
Created: 1980
Collection 116 Oral History Interviews with Helen Elliott
Collection
Identifier: CN 116
Scope and Contents
Oral History interviews conducted with Helen Ruth Belcher Elliot (1927-2012), missionary with Wycliffe Bible Translators to the Ixil Indian tribe in Guatemala. Topics include Wheaton College during the 1940s, field experiences, Guatemalan culture and religion, and family activities. Topics covered in the interview include: Elliott's childhood, marriage and early family life, education at Wheaton College (including courses, academic and social life), decision to become a missionary with...
Dates:
Created: 1980
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 262 Oral History Interview with Raymond Buker Jr.
Collection
Identifier: CN 262
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Raymond Bates Buker in which he describes growing up in Burma as the child of missionaries, his education at Wheaton College, his decision to become a missionary under the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society, language study; evangelization, church planting, translation, medical missions and education activities in Pakistan, working with Muslims and the Sindhi, Bhils, and Marwari tribal people, 1954-1969. Other topics discussed include: the culture,...
Dates:
Created: 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
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Indigenous church administration 8
- Medical care 8
- Church and state. 7
- Conversion. 7
- Language in missionary work. 7
- Children of missionaries. 6
- Tribes. 6
- Culture shock. 5
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 5
- Women 5
- Women -- Religious life. 5
- Women missionaries. 5
- World War, 1939-1945. 5
- Animism. 4
- Bible -- Translating. 4
- Bible. 4
- Christian education. 4
- Christianity and culture. 4
- Church and social problems. 4
- Education 4
- Leprosy. 4
- Religious institutions. 4
- Catholic Church. 3
- Christian leadership. 3
- Christian life. 3
- College students. 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 3
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 3
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
- Missions -- China. 3
- Missions -- Educational work. 3
- Missions to Muslims. 3
- Muslims. 3
- Worship (Christian) 3
- Animism -- Guatemala. 2
- Caste. 2
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Guatemala. 2
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
- China -- History. 2
- Christian education -- United States. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Christianity and other religions. 2
- Church and social problems -- China. 2
- College students -- United States 2
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- Communism. 2
- Economic and social conditions 2
- Education -- Guatemala. 2
- Evangelistic work -- China. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Guatemala. 2
- Family. 2
- Great Britain 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 2
- Guatemala 2
- Guatemala -- Economic conditions. 2
- Guatemala -- Race relations. 2
- Guatemala -- Religion 2
- Indians of Central America 2
- Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Missions. 2
- Indians of Central America -- Guatemala. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Guatemala. 2
- Intercultural communication. 2
- Ixil Indians -- Missions. 2
- Ixil Indians -- Religion. 2
- Ixil Indians. 2
- Linguistics 2
- Linguistics -- Guatemala. 2
- Linguists 2
- Linguists -- United States. 2
- Literacy 2
- Literacy -- Guatemala. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Medical care -- China. 2
- Medical care -- Guatemala. 2
- Medical education 2
- Medical education -- United States. 2
- Missionaries -- United States. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missions -- Guatemala. 2
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Missions, Medical -- China. 2
- Missions, Medical -- Guatemala. 2
- Missions. 2
- Nationalism. 2
- Persecution. 2
- Presbyterians. 2
- Race relations. 2
- Refugees 2
- Rural missions. 2 ∧ less
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