Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 8 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 110 Ephemera of Donald E. McDowell
Collection
Identifier: CN 110
Scope and Contents
Collection of 643 slides which document Donald E. McDowell's mission work and activity in Paraguay. Scenic views, native flora, mission personnel, mission facilities, national churchmen and pastors are some of the subjects illustrated by the collection.When the collection was received by the Archives, the slides were arranged in sets and were accompanied by an attached description and date for each picture. The original order of the slides was maintained. Three unidentified...
Dates:
Created: 1951-1973
Collection 187 Papers of Eleanor R. Elliott
Collection
Identifier: CN 187
Scope and Contents
Family correspondence, prayer letters, brochures, newspaper clippings, prayer cards and letters from other missionaries, photographs, slides, negatives, journals and diaries, and eight interviews concerning Elliott's childhood in China, mission work with China Inland Mission (now Overseas Missionary Fellowship) in China and the Philippines, her experiences as an evangelist and teacher, her life in China during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945, and the civil war that followed. Her retirement...
Dates:
Created: 1910-1988
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 290 Oral History Interview with Merle A. Steely
Collection
Identifier: CN 290
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Merle Ashel Steely, who worked as a missionary with Sudan Interior Mission between 1951 and 1977 in Liberia and Nigeria. Topic discussed include: Steely's conversion while in military service, education and employment at Wheaton College (including the 1950 revival there), his missionary work in Liberia at radio station ELWA and with Sudan Interior Mission in Nigeria, teaching in mission and government schools, evangelism and church planting, Billy Graham's 1960...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Collection 298 Papers of Howard E. Thomas
Collection
Identifier: CN 298
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Howard E. Thomas in which he describes his family background, Christian life and growth, education at Stony Brook School and Wheaton College, missionary work with the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions among lepers of the Tai-Lu people along the Burmese border in southwestern China, internment by the Japanese in Thailand, contextualization of the gospel, expulsion from the area by the Chinese army involved in opium trade. Description of Stony Brook School...
Dates:
Created: 1946-1985
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
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
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Evangelistic work. 7
- Language in missionary work. 7
- Medical care 7
- Missionaries. 7
- Tribes. 7
- Indigenous church administration 6
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 6
- Church and social problems. 5
- Missions -- Educational work. 5
- Catholic Church. 4
- Children of missionaries. 4
- Christianity and culture. 4
- Church and state. 4
- Conversion. 4
- Missionaries -- Training of. 4
- Sex role. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 4
- Women missionaries. 4
- Boarding schools. 3
- Christian life. 3
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 3
- Leprosy. 3
- Medical care -- China. 3
- Missions -- China. 3
- Missions to Buddhists. 3
- Missions to Muslims. 3
- Muslims. 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- World War, 1939-1945. 3
- Alcoholism -- United States 2
- Bible. 2
- Caste. 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
- China -- History. 2
- Christian education. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Christian martyrs -- China. 2
- Christian martyrs. 2
- Church and social problems -- China. 2
- Communism. 2
- Culture shock. 2
- Drug traffic 2
- Drug traffic -- China. 2
- Economic and social conditions 2
- Evangelistic work -- China. 2
- Family. 2
- Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) 2
- Intercultural communication. 2
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 2
- Leprosy -- China. 2
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missions -- Finance. 2
- Missions -- India. 2
- Missions to Buddhists -- China. 2
- Missions, Medical -- China. 2
- Modernist-fundamentalist controversy. 2
- Opium trade 2
- Opium trade -- China. 2
- Persecution. 2
- Presbyterians. 2
- Radio in missionary work. 2
- Rural missions -- China. 2
- Social change. 2
- Tai (Southeast Asian people) 2
- Theological seminaries. 2
- Tribes -- China. 2
- United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. -- Missions. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 2
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service -- Nigeria. 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History -- 1945- 1
- Animism -- Nigeria. 1
- Animism. 1
- Athletes 1
- Athletes -- United States 1
- Athletes -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- BGEA: South Africa Tour -- 1960 1
- Baptism. 1
- Baptists -- Missions -- Paraguay. 1
- Baptists -- Missions. 1
- Baptists. 1
- Bhil (Indic people) 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution -- China. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 1
- Bible -- Translating. 1
- Bible colleges 1
- Bible colleges -- Nigeria. 1
- Boarding schools -- India. 1
- Boarding schools -- Nigeria. 1
- Buddhism -- Doctrines. 1
- Buddhism -- Sri Lanka. 1 ∧ less
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