Wheaton College (Ill.)
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Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
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 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 382 Oral History Interview with Paul E. Freed
Collection
Identifier: CN 382
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Paul Ernest Freed (1918-1996) in which he describes the founding of Trans World Radio in 1952, the history of the development of its administrative policies and work from that time to 1981, and about the use of radio in missionary work. Other topics discussed include: Freed's childhood as the son of Christian and Missionary Alliance workers in Syria, his education in Jerusalem and at Wheaton College, the business he started to help pay his way through college...
Dates:
Created: 1981
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
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- Subject
- Children of missionaries. 4
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Communism. 3
- Evangelistic work. 3
- Indigenous church administration 3
- Medical care 3
- Missionaries -- Training of. 3
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- Women missionaries. 3
- Alcoholism -- United States 2
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Catholic Church. 2
- China -- History. 2
- Christianity and culture. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- College students -- United States 2
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- College students. 2
- Communism -- China. 2
- Conversion. 2
- Fund raising. 2
- Funeral rites and ceremonies. 2
- Intercultural communication. 2
- Language in missionary work. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Mass media in religion. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missions -- China. 2
- Missions -- Educational work. 2
- Pentecostalism. 2
- Persecution -- China. 2
- Racism. 2
- Radio in missionary work. 2
- Radio in religion. 2
- Religious institutions. 2
- Rural missions. 2
- Shortwave radio. 2
- Theological seminaries. 2
- Tribes. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
- World War, 1939-1945. 2
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History -- 1919-1933. 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History -- 1945- 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century. 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Politics and government. 1
- Animism -- Sudan. 1
- Animism. 1
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Bible -- Translating. 1
- Bible. 1
- Boarding schools -- Ecuador. 1
- Boarding schools -- India. 1
- Broadcasting policy. 1
- Buddhism -- Doctrines. 1
- Buddhism -- Sri Lanka. 1
- Buddhism. 1
- Caste. 1
- Caste. -- Sri Lanka. 1
- Catholic Church. -- China. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Hong Kong 1
- Catholic Church. -- India. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Sri Lanka. 1
- Children -- Conversion to Christianity. 1
- Children -- Religious life. 1
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 1
- Children. 1
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 1
- China -- History -- 1949- 1
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 1
- China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976. 1
- China. 1
- Chinese -- Missions. 1
- Chinese. 1
- Christian leadership. 1
- Christian life. 1
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- Sri Lanka. 1
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 1
- Christian literature. 1
- Christian martyrs -- Sudan. 1
- Christian martyrs. 1
- Christianity and other religions. 1
- Christianity and politics. 1
- Christianity today (Periodical) 1
- Christmas. 1
- Church and social problems -- Ecuador. 1
- Church and social problems -- Hong Kong. 1
- Church and social problems. 1
- Church and state -- China. 1
- Church and state -- Ecuador. 1
- Church and state -- India. 1
- Church and state -- Sri Lanka. 1 ∧ less
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