Wheaton College (Ill.)
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Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
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 293 Oral History Interview with Melvin D. Suttie
Collection
Identifier: CN 293
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Melvin David Suttie (1912-2006) in which he discusses his childhood, Christian growth, education at Wheaton College and Biblical Seminary in New York and Omaha Presbyterian Seminary, missionary work with China Inland Mission (1940-1950), work among university students, persecution, evangelistic work among the Chinese population and Nationalist troops, his wife Mary's work among women, their children, church and state relations in China, the impact of the...
Dates:
Created: 1985
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 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
- Catholic Church. 6
- Children of missionaries. 6
- Evangelistic work. 6
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 6
- Indigenous church administration 5
- Missionaries -- Training of. 5
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 4
- Christian education. 4
- Christianity and culture. 4
- Church development, New. 4
- Language in missionary work. 4
- Medical care 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 4
- Missions -- Educational work. 4
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
- Pentecostalism. 4
- Racism. 4
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
- China -- History. 3
- College students in missionary work. 3
- Missions -- Africa. 3
- Missions, Medical. 3
- Persecution. 3
- Tribes. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 3
- Women missionaries. 3
- Boarding schools. 2
- Brethren Assemblies -- Missions. 2
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
- China. 2
- Christian education -- Zambia. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Church and state -- Zambia. 2
- Church work with students. 2
- College students -- United States 2
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 2
- College students. 2
- Communism -- China. 2
- Communism -- Zambia. 2
- Ecumenical movement. 2
- Education 2
- Education -- Zambia. 2
- Education, Higher 2
- Education, Higher -- United States. 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Zambia. 2
- Fund raising. 2
- Funeral rites and ceremonies. 2
- Great Britain 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 2
- Indians of South America -- Missions. 2
- Indians of South America. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Zambia. 2
- Intercultural communication. 2
- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- International relief. 2
- Jevovah's Witnesses -- Missions. 2
- Journalism, Religious. 2
- Laity. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Mass media in missionary work. 2
- Mass media in religion. 2
- Medical care -- Zambia. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missions -- Africa -- Politics and government. 2
- Missions -- China. 2
- Missions -- Public relations. 2
- Missions -- Zambia. 2
- Missions. 2
- Modernist-fundamentalist controversy. 2
- Occultism. 2
- Persecution -- China. 2
- Personnel management. 2
- Racism -- Zambia. 2
- Religious institutions. 2
- Rural churches -- Zambia. 2
- Rural churches. 2
- Rural missions. 2
- Southern Lunda (African people) 2
- Superstition. 2
- Theological seminaries. 2
- Theology 2
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 2
- Tribes -- Africa. 2
- Tribes -- Zambia. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Athletics. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 2
- Women 2
- Women -- Religious life. 2
- World War, 1939-1945. 2
- Zambia 2
- Zambia -- History 2 ∧ less
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