Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 084 Papers of Vera E. Thiessen
Collection
Identifier: CN 084
Scope and Contents
Correspondence describing Vera Thiessen's experiences and work as a medical missionary for the Africa Inland Mission (AIM) in the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) to her family, which included her parents, Rev. and Mrs. J. D. Thiessen, her sisters Carol and Lois, and her brother Jack. A few letters were written to friends as general prayer letters. The time period covered by the letters is 1946 to 1976. Topics discussed include her experiences as a missionary with Africa Inland Mission, Africa...
Dates:
Created: 1946-1976
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 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
Congress on the Church's Worldwide Mission Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 021
Scope and Contents
Materials relating to the Congress on the Church's Worldwide Mission which was held on the Wheaton College campus in 1966 and was jointly sponsored by the Evangelical Foreign Missions Association and the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association. Audio tapes document various sessions of the Congress, including biblical expositions, study papers (on subjects like syncretism, church growth, cooperation, the Catholic Church and social issues), reports on missions on the world's...
Dates:
Created: 1964-1967
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: -
Found in:
Special Collections
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Conversion Narratives Collection
Moody Church Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 330
Brief Description
Correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, church bulletins, minutes of meetings, and other records documenting the activities of the influential independent Chicago church started by Dwight L. Moody; chiefly from ca. 1910 through 1946.Topics documented include worship services, Sunday school, the weekly activities of the congregation, the governance of the body, and various urban evangelistic outreaches of the church. Besides the history of the church, the collection also documents...
Dates:
Created: 1864-1987
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Moody Church Records
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- Missions -- Africa. 5
- Missions -- Educational work. 5
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 4
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 4
- Catholic Church. 4
- Christian education. 4
- Church and state. 4
- Medical care 4
- Missionaries. 4
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
- Children of missionaries. 3
- Christianity and culture. 3
- Church and social problems. 3
- Communism. 3
- Education 3
- Great Britain 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 3
- Indigenous church administration 3
- Language in missionary work. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of. 3
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 3
- Missions -- Finance. 3
- Racism. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 3
- Belgium. 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Brethren Assemblies -- Missions. 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- Christian education -- Zambia. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Church and state -- Zambia. 2
- Church development, New. 2
- Communism -- Zambia. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 2
- Education -- Zambia. 2
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Africa, East. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Zambia. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Zambia. 2
- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Jevovah's Witnesses -- Missions. 2
- Laity. 2
- Medical care -- Zambia. 2
- Missionaries -- United States. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missions -- Africa -- Politics and government. 2
- Missions -- Asia. 2
- Missions -- Europe. 2
- Missions -- Zambia. 2
- Nationalism. 2
- Occultism. 2
- Racism -- Zambia. 2
- Religious institutions. 2
- Rural churches -- Zambia. 2
- Rural churches. 2
- Sermons, American. 2
- Southern Lunda (African people) 2
- Superstition. 2
- Syncretism (Religion). 2
- Theological seminaries. 2
- Tribes -- Africa. 2
- Tribes -- Zambia. 2
- Tribes. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Athletics. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 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
- Africa, East. 1
- Africa, East. -- Religion 1
- African Americans -- Religious life. 1
- African Americans. 1
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Animism. 1
- Bible -- Translating. 1
- Bible. 1
- Blocher, Jacques -- Sermons. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Catholic Church. -- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Chicago (Ill.) 1
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Religion. 1
- Children -- United States 1
- Children -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- Children. 1
- Christian education -- Africa, East. 1
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Christian education -- Kenya. 1
- Christian education -- United States. 1
- Christian education, Outdoor -- United States. 1 ∧ less
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