Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
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 177 Papers of Zoe Anne Alford
Collection
Identifier: CN 177
Scope and Contents
This collection contains curriculum materials and lecture notes, manuscripts of messages, correspondence, prayer letters, financial records, clippings, maps, promotional materials, minutes, photographs, newsletters, oral history interview, documenting Zoe Anne Alford's work in India and among Navajo Indians in New Mexico. The collection provides a broad overview of her education, preparation and missionary career, extending from her grammar school education into her retirement. It provides...
Dates:
Created: 1925-1983
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 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 282 Oral History Interview with Bonnie Jo Adolph
Collection
Identifier: CN 282
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Bonnie Jo Adelsman Adolph in which she discussses her missionary service in Ethiopia with Sudan Interior Mission from 1966-1974. Topics discussed include Adolph's education at Wheaton College, decision to become a missionary, living in Taiwan during her husband's military service, reasons for choosing Sudan Interior Mission, her husband's medical work in Ethiopia, observations about Sudanese culture, the church in Sudan, and the Adolphs short term mission service...
Dates:
Created: 1984
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 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
Helen Renich Papers.
Collection
Identifier: CN 124
Brief Description
Two oral history interviews with Helen Gignilliat Torrey Renich in which she describes her grandfather, Reuben Archer Torrey, Sr., and her experiences growing up in China as a child of missionaries. Other topics discussed include her experiences at Wheaton College and culture shock. The collection also includes photographs of her family life in China and Chinese nationals, ca. 1920-30s.Helen Renich was interviewed by Robert Shuster on May 15, 1980 in Michigan and on May 17, 1982...
Dates:
Created: 1920-1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
/
Helen Renich Papers.
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- Children of missionaries. 8
- Evangelistic work. 8
- Missionaries. 8
- Women missionaries. 8
- Family. 7
- Medical care 7
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 7
- Women 7
- Women -- Religious life. 7
- Indigenous church administration 6
- Language in missionary work. 6
- Missions -- Educational work. 6
- Tribes. 6
- Christianity and culture. 5
- Church and state. 5
- Conversion. 5
- Missionaries -- Training of. 5
- Boarding schools. 4
- Catholic Church. 4
- Church work with women. 4
- Culture shock. 4
- Education 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missions -- Finance. 4
- Persecution. 4
- Rural missions. 4
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
- Christian education. 3
- Church and social problems. 3
- Education, Higher 3
- Missions -- India. 3
- Missions to Muslims. 3
- Muslims. 3
- Social change. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 3
- World War, 1939-1945. 3
- Alcoholism -- United States 2
- Animism. 2
- Belief and doubt. 2
- Bible. 2
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 2
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 2
- China -- History. 2
- Christian education -- United States. 2
- Church and state -- Ethiopia. 2
- Church and state -- Nigeria. 2
- Church growth. 2
- Church schools 2
- Church work with children. 2
- Church work with women -- China. 2
- Communism. 2
- Demoniac possession 2
- Demoniac possession -- Nigeria. 2
- Discrimination. 2
- Education, Higher -- India. 2
- Education, Higher -- United States. 2
- Ethiopia 2
- Ethiopia -- Politics and government. 2
- Ethiopia -- Religion. 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- China. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Ethiopia. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Nigeria. 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Great Britain 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 2
- India -- History -- 1947- 2
- India -- History. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- India. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Nigeria. 2
- International relief. 2
- Interpersonal conflict. 2
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Medical care -- China. 2
- Medical care -- Ethiopia. 2
- Medical care -- Nigeria. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missions -- China. 2
- Missions -- Ethiopia. 2
- Missions -- Nigeria. 2
- Missions to Buddhists. 2
- Missions to Muslims -- Nigeria. 2
- Missions, Medical -- Ethiopia. 2
- Missions, Medical -- Nigeria. 2
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
- Muslims -- Nigeria. 2
- Nigeria 2
- Nigeria -- Foreign relations 2
- Nigeria -- History 2
- Nigeria -- History -- Civil War, 1967-1970. 2
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