Wheaton College (Ill.)
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Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
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 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 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:
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Conversion Narratives Collection
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- Catholic Church. 6
- Church and state. 6
- Education 6
- Evangelistic work. 6
- Language in missionary work. 6
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 6
- Missions, Medical. 6
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 6
- Church development, New. 5
- Medical care 5
- Missionaries -- Training of. 5
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 5
- Tribes. 5
- Women missionaries. 5
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 4
- Christian education. 4
- Christianity and culture. 4
- Conversion. 4
- Sex role. 4
- Superstition. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 4
- Women 4
- Women -- Religious life. 4
- Boarding schools. 3
- Church schools 3
- Communism. 3
- Great Britain 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 3
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- Missions -- Africa. 3
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Racism. 3
- Rural missions. 3
- Alcoholism -- United States 2
- Animism. 2
- Belgium. 2
- Belgium. -- Administration. 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Brethren Assemblies -- Missions. 2
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Christian education -- Zambia. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Church and state -- Zambia. 2
- Church work with children. 2
- College students -- Religious life. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- College students. 2
- Communism -- Zambia. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic)--Social life and customs 2
- Culture shock. 2
- Ecumenical movement. 2
- Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Education -- Zambia. 2
- Education, Higher 2
- Education, Higher -- India. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Evangelistic work -- Zambia. 2
- Family. 2
- Fund raising. 2
- India -- History -- 1947- 2
- India -- History. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- India. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Zambia. 2
- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Jevovah's Witnesses -- Missions. 2
- Laity. 2
- Liberalism (Religion) 2
- Medical care -- Zambia. 2
- Missions -- Africa -- Politics and government. 2
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 2
- Missions -- India. 2
- Missions -- Zambia. 2
- Missions to Muslims. 2
- Occultism. 2
- Pentecostalism. 2
- Racism -- Zambia. 2
- Rural churches -- Zambia. 2
- Rural churches. 2
- Southern Lunda (African people) 2
- Sunday schools. 2
- Theological seminaries. 2
- Tribes -- Africa. 2
- Tribes -- Zambia. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Athletics. 2
- Zambia 2
- Zambia -- History 2
- Zambia -- History -- 1953-1964. 2
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