Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 088 Papers of Paul and Catharine Gieser
Collection
Identifier: CN 088
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Kenneth Gieser and letters reporting to the Southern Presbyterian Mission Board in Nashville, TN on the Gieser’s work in China, written between October 19, 1934, and November 1, 1936. Also contains audio tapes and transcripts of autobiographical statements.
Dates:
Created: 1934-1979
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 169 Oral History Interviews with Harold P. Adolph
Collection
Identifier: CN 169
Scope and Contents
Oral History Interview with Harold Paul Adolph, in which he discusses his boyhood in China as the son of missionaries with China Inland Mission, conditions in China, his education at Wheaton College, medical education at the University of Pennsylvania, decision to become a missionary, and his ministry in Ethiopia as a medical missionary in African with Sudan Interior Mission; American missions in Ethiopia; family life on the mission field, and work with the Christian Medical Society. The...
Dates:
Created: 1981
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 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 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
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
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Helen Renich Papers.
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Moody Church Records
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Missionaries. 8
- Conversion. 7
- Indigenous church administration 7
- Medical care 7
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 7
- Evangelistic work -- China. 6
- Missionaries -- Training of. 6
- Missions -- China. 6
- Tribes. 6
- Children of missionaries. 5
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 5
- China -- History. 5
- Christian education. 5
- Church and social problems. 5
- Culture shock. 5
- Language in missionary work. 5
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 5
- Missions -- Educational work. 5
- Women 5
- Women -- Religious life. 5
- Women missionaries. 5
- Christianity and culture. 4
- Church and state. 4
- Evangelicalism. 4
- Medical care -- China. 4
- Missions to Muslims. 4
- Persecution. 4
- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 4
- Bible. 3
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 3
- Christian education -- United States. 3
- Church work with women. 3
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 3
- Family. 3
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 3
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 3
- Leprosy. 3
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
- Muslims. 3
- Presbyterians. 3
- Religious institutions. 3
- Rural missions. 3
- Sex role. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 3
- Worship (Christian) 3
- Animism. 2
- Bible -- Translating. 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Catholic Church. 2
- Children. 2
- China -- Description and travel. 2
- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 2
- Chinese -- Missions. 2
- Chinese. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Christian martyrs -- China. 2
- Christian martyrs. 2
- Christianity and other religions. 2
- Church and social problems -- China. 2
- Church and social problems -- United States. 2
- Church work with children. 2
- Church work with women -- China. 2
- Communism -- China. 2
- Communism. 2
- Economic and social conditions 2
- Education 2
- Education, Higher 2
- Education, Higher -- United States. 2
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 2
- Fundamentalism. 2
- Missionaries -- United States. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missions -- Nigeria. 2
- Missions -- Study and teaching. 2
- Missions to Buddhists -- China. 2
- Missions to Buddhists. 2
- Missions, Medical -- China. 2
- Missions. 2
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
- Persecution -- China. 2
- Presbyterian Church -- Missions. 2
- Presbyterian Church. 2
- Refugees 2
- Refugees -- China. 2
- Sex role -- China. 2
- Social change. 2
- African Americans -- Religious life. 1
- African Americans. 1
- Amharic language. 1
- Animism -- Ethiopia. 1
- Animism -- Guatemala. 1
- Athletes 1
- Athletes -- United States 1
- Athletes -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Bhil (Indic people) 1 ∧ less
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