Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
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 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
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
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
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Moody Church Records
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Church and state. 4
- College students in missionary work. 4
- Conversion. 4
- Indigenous church administration 4
- Missionaries -- Training of. 4
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Animism. 3
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
- Catholic Church. 3
- Children of missionaries. 3
- Christian education. 3
- Church development, New. 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Medical care 3
- Missions -- Educational work. 3
- Missions, Medical. 3
- Religious institutions. 3
- Tribes. 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- Women missionaries. 3
- Bible colleges 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- Christianity and culture. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Church discipline. 2
- Church work with children. 2
- College students -- Religious life. 2
- College students. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 2
- Education 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Fundamentalism. 2
- Great Britain 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 2
- Independent churches. 2
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 2
- Language in missionary work. 2
- Missionaries -- Salaries, etc. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missions -- Africa. 2
- Missions -- Asia. 2
- Missions -- Europe. 2
- Missions -- Middle East. 2
- Missions -- Nigeria. 2
- Missions -- Study and teaching. 2
- Missions. 2
- Muslims. 2
- New York World's Fair (1964-1965) 2
- Pentecostalism. 2
- Prayer groups. 2
- Religion in the public schools 2
- Theological seminaries. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 2
- World War, 1939-1945. 2
- African Americans -- Religious life. 1
- African Americans. 1
- Alcoholism -- United States 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service -- Nigeria. 1
- Animism -- Nigeria. 1
- Animism -- Sudan. 1
- Anti-communist movements -- United States. 1
- Anti-communist movements. 1
- BGEA: South Africa Tour -- 1960 1
- Belgium. 1
- Belgium. -- Administration. 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies 1
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Bible -- Translating. 1
- Bible colleges -- Nigeria. 1
- Bible colleges -- United States. 1
- Bible. 1
- Boarding schools -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Boarding schools -- Nigeria. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Chicago (Ill.) 1
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Religion. 1
- Children -- United States 1
- Children -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- Children. 1
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 1
- China -- History. 1
- China. 1
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Christian education -- United States. 1
- Christian education, Outdoor -- United States. 1
- Christian education, Outdoor. 1
- Christian leadership. 1
- Christian life. 1 ∧ less
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