Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 9 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 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 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 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
Moody Church Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 330
Brief Description
Correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, church bulletins, minutes of meetings, and other records documenting the activities of the influential independent Chicago church started by Dwight L. Moody; chiefly from ca. 1910 through 1946.Topics documented include worship services, Sunday school, the weekly activities of the congregation, the governance of the body, and various urban evangelistic outreaches of the church. Besides the history of the church, the collection also documents...
Dates:
Created: 1864-1987
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
/
Moody Church Records
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Language in missionary work. 8
- Missions -- Educational work. 8
- Catholic Church. 7
- Children of missionaries. 7
- Education 7
- Evangelistic work. 7
- Indigenous church administration 7
- Tribes. 7
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 6
- Christian education. 6
- Church and state. 6
- Conversion. 6
- Medical care 6
- Missionaries -- Training of. 6
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 6
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 6
- Women missionaries. 6
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 5
- Christianity and culture. 5
- Women 5
- Women -- Religious life. 5
- Animism. 4
- Boarding schools. 4
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 4
- Church development, New. 4
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 4
- Racism. 4
- Sex role. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 4
- Church discipline. 3
- Church work with children. 3
- Communism. 3
- Family. 3
- Great Britain 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 3
- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
- Missions -- Africa. 3
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Missions to Muslims. 3
- Occultism. 3
- Superstition. 3
- Theological seminaries. 3
- Alcoholism -- United States 2
- Belgium. 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Brethren Assemblies -- Missions. 2
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Christian education -- United States. 2
- Christian education -- Zambia. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Church and state -- Zambia. 2
- Church schools 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
- Culture shock. 2
- Discrimination. 2
- Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Education -- Zambia. 2
- Education, Higher 2
- Education, Higher -- India. 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Evangelistic work -- South Africa. 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Zambia. 2
- India -- History -- 1947- 2
- India -- History. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- India. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Zambia. 2
- Intercultural communication. 2
- Interpersonal conflict. 2
- Jevovah's Witnesses -- Missions. 2
- Laity. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Medical care -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Medical care -- Zambia. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missions -- Africa -- Politics and government. 2
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 2
- Missions -- India. 2
- Missions -- Nigeria. 2
- Missions -- Zambia. 2
- Missions. 2
- Pentecostalism. 2
- Racism -- Zambia. 2
- Rural churches -- Zambia. 2
- Rural churches. 2
- Rural missions. 2
- Southern Lunda (African people) 2
- Sunday schools. 2
- Tribes -- Africa. 2 ∧ less
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