Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 6 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 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 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 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 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: -
Found in:
Special Collections
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Conversion Narratives Collection
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- Subject
- Catholic Church. 5
- Children of missionaries. 5
- Christianity and culture. 5
- Church and state. 5
- Communism. 5
- Evangelistic work. 5
- Indigenous church administration 5
- Medical care 5
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 5
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 4
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 4
- Christian education. 4
- Education 4
- Missionaries -- Training of. 4
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 4
- Missions -- Educational work. 4
- Missions -- Finance. 4
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 4
- Animism. 3
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
- Great Britain 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 3
- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Marriage. 3
- Occultism. 3
- Rural churches. 3
- Tribes. 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- Women missionaries. 3
- Boarding schools. 2
- Brethren Assemblies -- Missions. 2
- Christian education -- Zambia. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Church and state -- Zambia. 2
- Church development, New. 2
- Communism -- Zambia. 2
- Conversion. 2
- Discrimination. 2
- Education -- Zambia. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Zambia. 2
- Family. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Zambia. 2
- Interpersonal conflict. 2
- Jevovah's Witnesses -- Missions. 2
- Laity. 2
- Medical care -- Zambia. 2
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
- Missions -- Africa -- Politics and government. 2
- Missions -- Africa. 2
- Missions -- Zambia. 2
- Persecution. 2
- Racism -- Zambia. 2
- Religious institutions. 2
- Rural churches -- Zambia. 2
- Sex role. 2
- Southern Lunda (African people) 2
- Superstition. 2
- Tribes -- Africa. 2
- Tribes -- Zambia. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Athletics. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 2
- Worship (Christian) 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
- Alcoholism -- United States 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History -- 1945- 1
- Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Animism -- South Africa. 1
- Animism -- Zimbabwe. 1
- Apartheid. 1
- Belgium. 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Bible -- Translating. 1
- Bible. 1
- Boarding schools -- India. 1
- Boarding schools -- South Africa. 1
- Buddhism -- Doctrines. 1
- Buddhism -- Sri Lanka. 1
- Buddhism. 1
- Caste. 1
- Caste. -- Sri Lanka. 1 ∧ less
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