Wheaton College (Ill.)
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Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 104 Oral History Interview with Bruce F. Hunt
Collection
Identifier: CN 104
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews in which Bruce Finley Hunt (1903-1992) discusses his boyhood in Korea, college and seminary education at Wheaton College, Rutgers University and Princeton Seminary; a portion (1928-1942) of his missionary work in Korea and Manchuria; and his impressions of Korean culture. The time period covered by the interviews is roughly 1903-1976.Bruce Finley Hunt was interviewed by Robert Shuster on March 22 and May 21, 1980 and October 16, 2002 in Abington, PA and...
Dates:
Created: 1980-1982
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 284 Oral History Interview with Gladys Wright
Collection
Identifier: CN 284
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Gladys Lyle Wright (1902-1994), in which she discusses her work as a teacher in Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo). Topics discussed include: Wright's family background, education at Wheaton College and Moody Bible Institute, her work as a missionary in the Belgian Congo for the Africa Inland Mission, memories of the Congolese people and culture, and her experiences at Wheaton when she was on the staff of the College after retriring from the mission...
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 302 Oral History Interview with David L. Farah
Collection
Identifier: CN 302
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with David Livingstone Farah, in which he discusses his upbringing, education at Wheaton College, work as an administrator with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Peru and Bolivia, and relationships with other religious bodies, national groups and governments. Other topics include the 1950 revival at Wheaton College; Wycliffe jungle training in Mexico; the Catholic Church in Bolivia and the prevalence of syncretism; differences between Peru and Bolivia; description of...
Dates:
Created: 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
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: -
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Conversion Narratives Collection
Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA) Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 352
Brief Description
Correspondence, form letters, financial and statistical reports, minutes, memos and promotional material related to IFMA administration and its service to its member missions. The files on IFMA members and numerous other Christian agencies predominate. Also includes series of maps of Latin American countries identifying nondenominational and denominational mission activity. Numerous mission-related subjects are documented. Persons prominently featured include Jack Frizen, Billy Graham, and...
Dates:
Created: 1934-1983, undated
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- Children of missionaries. 7
- Church and state. 7
- Language in missionary work. 7
- Christian education. 6
- Christianity and culture. 6
- Church development, New. 6
- Education 5
- Indigenous church administration 5
- Missions, Medical. 5
- Tribes. 5
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 5
- Animism. 4
- Boarding schools. 4
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 4
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 4
- College students in missionary work. 4
- Communism. 4
- Conversion. 4
- Medical care 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missions -- Educational work. 4
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 4
- Culture shock. 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Great Britain 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 3
- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
- Missions -- Africa. 3
- Missions to Muslims. 3
- Occultism. 3
- Racism. 3
- Revivals. 3
- Rural churches. 3
- Superstition. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Athletics. 3
- Women missionaries. 3
- Bible colleges 2
- Brethren Assemblies -- Missions. 2
- Christian education -- Zambia. 2
- Church and state -- Zambia. 2
- College students -- Religious life. 2
- College students. 2
- Communism -- Zambia. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 2
- Education -- Zambia. 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Evangelistic work -- Zambia. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Zambia. 2
- Jevovah's Witnesses -- Missions. 2
- Laity. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Medical care -- Zambia. 2
- Missions -- Africa -- Politics and government. 2
- Missions -- Public relations. 2
- Missions -- Zambia. 2
- Missions. 2
- Modernist-fundamentalist controversy. 2
- Pentecostalism. 2
- Racism -- Zambia. 2
- Religious institutions. 2
- Revivals -- Wheaton. 2
- Rural churches -- Zambia. 2
- Sex role. 2
- Southern Lunda (African people) 2
- Street preaching. 2
- Tribes -- Africa. 2
- Tribes -- Zambia. 2
- Women 2
- Women -- Religious life. 2
- World War, 1939-1945. 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
- Alcoholism -- United States 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service -- Nigeria. 1
- Animism -- Bolivia. 1
- Animism -- Nigeria. 1
- Animism -- South Africa. 1
- Anti-communist movements -- United States. 1
- Anti-communist movements. 1
- Apartheid. 1
- BGEA: South Africa Tour -- 1960 1
- Belgium. 1
- Belgium. -- Administration. 1 ∧ less
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