Wheaton College (Ill.)
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Found in 5 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 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:
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Conversion Narratives Collection
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- Christianity and culture. 4
- Church and state. 4
- Communism. 4
- Evangelistic work. 4
- Indigenous church administration 4
- Language in missionary work. 4
- Medical care 4
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 4
- Missions -- Educational work. 4
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
- Missions, Medical. 4
- Tribes. 4
- Boarding schools. 3
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 3
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
- Education 3
- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of. 3
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
- Occultism. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- Women missionaries. 3
- Brethren Assemblies -- Missions. 2
- Christian education -- Zambia. 2
- Christian education. 2
- Church and state -- Zambia. 2
- Church development, New. 2
- Communism -- Zambia. 2
- Culture shock. 2
- Discrimination. 2
- Education -- Zambia. 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Zambia. 2
- Family. 2
- Funeral rites and ceremonies. 2
- Great Britain 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Zambia. 2
- Intercultural communication. 2
- Interpersonal conflict. 2
- Jevovah's Witnesses -- Missions. 2
- Laity. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Medical care -- Zambia. 2
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
- Missions -- Africa -- Politics and government. 2
- Missions -- Africa. 2
- Missions -- Zambia. 2
- Missions. 2
- Persecution. 2
- Racism -- Zambia. 2
- Rural churches -- Zambia. 2
- Rural churches. 2
- Sex role. 2
- Southern Lunda (African people) 2
- Superstition. 2
- Tribes -- Africa. 2
- Tribes -- Zambia. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Athletics. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 2
- Zambia 2
- Zambia -- History 2
- Zambia -- History -- 1953-1964. 2
- Zambia -- History -- 1964- 2
- Zambia -- Politics and government -- 1964-1991 2
- Zambia -- Politics and government -- To 1964. 2
- Zambia -- Politics and government. 2
- Alcoholism -- United States 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History -- 1945- 1
- Animism -- South Africa. 1
- Animism. 1
- Apartheid. 1
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Boarding schools -- Ecuador. 1
- Boarding schools -- India. 1
- Boarding schools -- South Africa. 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. -- Missions -- South Africa. 1
- Catholic Church. -- South Africa. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Sri Lanka. 1
- Children -- Conversion to Christianity. 1
- Children -- Religious life. 1
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