Wheaton College (Ill.)
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Found in 8 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 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 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 311 Papers of Charles J. Guth
Collection
Identifier: CN 311
Scope and Contents
Water color paintings and oral history interviews with Charles J. Guth, relating to Guth’s missionary work in Africa with the Sudan Interior Mission. Topics covered by the interviews include: Guth’s education at Wheaton College, preparation for the mission field as a worker with Sudan Interior Mission, his life, work, and contacts as a missionary among the Koma and Maban people of the Sudan; the culture of these peoples; the effect of Sudan's independence on the church in the Sudan,...
Dates:
Created: 1976-1985
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 335 Papers of Ralph E. Shannon
Collection
Identifier: CN 335
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and paper records relating to Ralph Shannon’s life and ministry as a medical missionary in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo).Audio Tapes Four oral history interviews with Ralph Shannon, recorded on eight reels of audio tape. Topics covered include Shannon's childhood in Belgian Congo (Zaire) with his missionary parents, Wheaton College undergraduate and graduate education, service in Zaire as a medical...
Dates:
Created: 1986-1990
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: -
Found in:
Special Collections
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Conversion Narratives Collection
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Children of missionaries. 7
- Evangelistic work. 7
- Indigenous church administration 7
- Missionaries -- Training of. 7
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 7
- Medical care 6
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 6
- Catholic Church. 5
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 5
- Christianity and culture. 5
- Church development, New. 5
- Conversion. 5
- Missions -- Educational work. 5
- Rural missions. 5
- Tribes. 5
- Women missionaries. 5
- Communism. 4
- Education 4
- Great Britain 4
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 4
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 4
- Language in missionary work. 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missionaries' spouses. 4
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
- Missions, Medical. 4
- Pentecostalism. 4
- Sex role. 4
- Superstition. 4
- Women 4
- Women -- Religious life. 4
- Animism. 3
- Boarding schools. 3
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
- Christian education. 3
- Christian leadership. 3
- Christian life. 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Missions -- Africa. 3
- Persecution. 3
- Racism. 3
- Rural churches. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 3
- Alcoholism -- United States 2
- Brethren Assemblies -- Missions. 2
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
- Christian education -- Zambia. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Church and state -- Zambia. 2
- Church discipline. 2
- Church schools 2
- Church work with military personnel. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- College students. 2
- Communism -- Zambia. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Religion. 2
- Culture shock. 2
- Ecumenical movement. 2
- Education -- Zambia. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Evangelistic work -- Zambia. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Zambia. 2
- Intercultural communication. 2
- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 2
- Jevovah's Witnesses -- Missions. 2
- Laity. 2
- Liberalism (Religion) 2
- Marriage. 2
- Medical care -- Zambia. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missions -- Africa -- Politics and government. 2
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 2
- Missions -- Zambia. 2
- Missions to Muslims. 2
- Muslims. 2
- Nationalism. 2
- Occultism. 2
- Presbyterians. 2
- Racism -- Zambia. 2
- Radio in missionary work. 2
- Religion in the public schools 2
- Religious institutions. 2
- Rural churches -- Zambia. 2
- Rural missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Southern Lunda (African people) 2
- Sunday schools. 2
- Theological seminaries. 2
- Tribes -- Africa. 2
- Tribes -- Zambia. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Athletics. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 2 ∧ less
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