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Wheaton College (Ill.)

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Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Collection 083 Papers of Richard E. Scheel

 Collection
Identifier: CN 083
Scope and Contents

Oral history interviews, slides, photographs, correspondence and a personal diary created by Dr. Richard E. Scheel, missionary to Ethiopia with Sudan Interior Mission (S.I.M.) from 1951-1971.

Dates: Created: 1953-1970

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 122 Oral History Interview with Gladys M. Fleckles

 Collection
Identifier: CN 122
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Gladys Marie Fleckles (1946-2006) in which she describes her short term missionary experience with OMF in Japan. Other topics include her graduate work at Wheaton, undergraduate study at John Brown University, and work in the admissions department of Wheaton Graduate School. The time period covered by the interview is roughly 1946-1980.Gladys Fleckles was interviewed by Mr. John Svadbik twice in May 1980. The time period covered by the interviews is...
Dates: Created: 1980

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 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

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

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  • Subject: Missions, Medical X
  • Subject: Religious institutions. X

Additional filters:

Subject
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 8
Christian education. 7
Indigenous church administration 7
Language in missionary work. 7
Christianity and culture. 6
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Church and state. 6
Medical care 6
Women missionaries. 6
Missionaries -- Training of. 5
Missions -- Educational work. 5
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 5
Women 5
Women -- Religious life. 5
Animism. 4
Catholic Church. 4
Children of missionaries. 4
Church and social problems. 4
Conversion. 4
Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 4
Theological seminaries. 4
Tribes. 4
Bible -- Translating. 3
Bible. 3
Christian life. 3
Culture shock. 3
Education 3
Evangelicalism. 3
Family. 3
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
Missions to Muslims. 3
Social change. 3
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 3
World War, 1939-1945. 3
Worship (Christian) 3
Animism -- Guatemala. 2
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
Catholic Church. -- Guatemala. 2
Children -- United States 2
Children -- United States -- Religious life. 2
Children. 2
Christian education -- Kenya. 2
Christian education -- United States. 2
Christian education, Outdoor -- United States. 2
Christian education, Outdoor. 2
Christian leadership. 2
Christianity and culture -- United States. 2
Church work with children. 2
Church work with youth. 2
College students. 2
Communism. 2
Demoniac possession 2
Education -- Guatemala. 2
Ethiopia 2
Ethiopia -- History 2
Ethiopia -- Religion. 2
Evangelistic invitations. 2
Evangelistic work -- Guatemala. 2
Evangelistic work -- Japan. 2
Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 2
Evangelistic work -- United States. 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
Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 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
Medical care -- Guatemala. 2
Missionaries -- United States. 2
Missions -- Ethiopia. 2
Missions -- Guatemala. 2
Missions -- Japan. 2
Missions -- Kenya. 2
Missions -- Nigeria. 2
Missions -- Study and teaching. 2
Missions, Medical -- Guatemala. 2
Muslims. 2
Nationalism. 2
Pentecostalism. 2
Persecution. 2
Race relations. 2
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