Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
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 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 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 317 Oral History Interview with Ian H. and Ruth E. Cook
Collection
Identifier: CN 317
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Ian Harper Cooke and Ruth Eileen (Witmer) Cook, in which Ian describes his childhood and education in South Africa, college education at Wheaton College, training for missionary work, medical missions work in South Africa with The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM), the Zulus, apartheid, and the national church; and Ruth describes her childhood, conversion, and intention to become a missionary nurse, education at West Suburban Hospital and Wheaton College,...
Dates:
Created: 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
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
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- Catholic Church. 6
- Children of missionaries. 6
- Christianity and culture. 6
- Language in missionary work. 6
- Missionaries -- Training of. 6
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 6
- Missionaries. 6
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 5
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 5
- Education 5
- Indigenous church administration 5
- Missions -- Educational work. 5
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 5
- Christian education. 4
- Church and state. 4
- Medical care 4
- Racism. 4
- Tribes. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 4
- Animism. 3
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
- Church development, New. 3
- Communism. 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Family. 3
- Great Britain 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 3
- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Missions -- Africa. 3
- Missions -- Finance. 3
- Occultism. 3
- Religious institutions. 3
- Theological seminaries. 3
- Women missionaries. 3
- Bible -- Translating. 2
- Bible. 2
- Brethren Assemblies -- Missions. 2
- Christian education -- Kenya. 2
- Christian education -- Zambia. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Church and state -- Zambia. 2
- College students. 2
- Communism -- Zambia. 2
- Conversion. 2
- Education -- Zambia. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Zambia. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Zambia. 2
- Jevovah's Witnesses -- Missions. 2
- Laity. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Medical care -- Zambia. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missions -- Africa -- Politics and government. 2
- Missions -- Congresses -- United States. 2
- Missions -- Congresses. 2
- Missions -- Kenya. 2
- Missions -- Zambia. 2
- Race relations. 2
- Racism -- Zambia. 2
- Rural churches -- Zambia. 2
- Rural churches. 2
- Southern Lunda (African people) 2
- Superstition. 2
- Syncretism (Religion). 2
- Tribes -- Africa. 2
- Tribes -- Zambia. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Athletics. 2
- Women 2
- Women -- Religious life. 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
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Animism -- Guatemala. 1
- Animism -- South Africa. 1
- Apartheid. 1
- Belgium. 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Blocher, Jacques -- Sermons. 1
- Boarding schools -- South Africa. 1
- Boarding schools. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Catholic Church. -- Guatemala. 1 ∧ less
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