Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 093 Oral History Interview with Earl A. Winsor
Collection
Identifier: CN 093
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Earl Austin Winsor (1897-1983) in which he discusses his education at Wheaton College as a student (1919-1920) and teacher (1920-25, history, and 1939-1949, math and physics) and his missionary experiences in Africa under Africa Inland Mission, serving in what is now Zaire. Wheaton personalities, mission experiences, especially those relating to his education work, and analysis of his exposure to African government, churches, tribal customs, and health practices....
Dates:
Created: 1979-1980
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 263 Oral History Interview with Margaret Carlson
Collection
Identifier: CN 263
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Margaret Johanna (Larson) Carlson in which she describes growing up in Ecuador as the child of missionaries, her education at Westmont and Wheaton Colleges, her nursing experience, and her missionary service with her husband at the Christian and Missionary Alliance Seminary in Hong Kong. Other topics discussed include: the founding of a HCJB radio station by her father, Reuben Larson, and her involvement in Wheaton College's HNGR Program. Individuals described...
Dates:
Created: 1983
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
Collection 328 Papers of Eric and Lydia Maillefer
Collection
Identifier: CN 328
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, speech manuscripts and prayer letters relating to the careers and ministries of Eric and Lydia Maillefer as missionaries and Christian workers with the Evangelical Free Church in Zaire, Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar (AEAM), and the Africa Evangelical Office (AEO). Lydia worked as a teacher and school administrator; Eric worked first as a teacher, then on loan as a conference coordinator to the Africa Evangelical Office, and later as administrative secretary...
Dates:
Created: 1971-1991
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
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
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Church and state. 11
- Children of missionaries. 10
- Evangelistic work. 10
- Missionaries -- Training of. 10
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 10
- Christianity and culture. 9
- Indigenous church administration 9
- Language in missionary work. 9
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 8
- Missions -- Educational work. 8
- Christian education. 7
- Church development, New. 7
- Education 7
- Medical care 7
- Missions, Medical. 7
- Tribes. 7
- Boarding schools. 6
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 6
- Communism. 6
- Conversion. 6
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 6
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 6
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 6
- Women missionaries. 6
- Animism. 5
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 5
- College students in missionary work. 5
- Culture shock. 5
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 5
- Racism. 5
- Women 5
- Women -- Religious life. 5
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 4
- Evangelicalism. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 4
- Fund raising. 4
- Missions -- Africa. 4
- Missions. 4
- Pentecostalism. 4
- Sex role. 4
- Superstition. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 4
- Belgium. 3
- Belgium. -- Colonies 3
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
- College students. 3
- Ecumenical movement. 3
- Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Great Britain 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 3
- Intercultural communication. 3
- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Liberalism (Religion) 3
- Marriage. 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 3
- Missions to Muslims. 3
- Modernist-fundamentalist controversy. 3
- Occultism. 3
- Revivals. 3
- Rural churches. 3
- Rural missions. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Athletics. 3
- Alcoholism -- United States 2
- Apartheid. 2
- Belgium. -- Administration. 2
- Bible colleges 2
- Brethren Assemblies -- Missions. 2
- Buddhism -- Doctrines. 2
- Buddhism. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- China -- History. 2
- China. 2
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Christian education -- Zambia. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Church and state -- Zambia. 2
- Church discipline. 2
- Church schools 2
- College students -- Religious life. 2
- Communism -- Zambia. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Religion. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Social conditions. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic)--Social life and customs 2
- Discrimination. 2
- Education -- Zambia. 2
- Education, Higher 2
- Education, Higher -- United States. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Congresses 2
- Evangelistic work -- Zambia. 2
- Family. 2
- Funeral rites and ceremonies. 2 ∧ less
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