Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
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 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 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 325 Oral History Interview with Donald W. Berry
Collection
Identifier: CN 325
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview in which Berry discusses his conversion, education at Wheaton College, and his work as a pilot and administrator for Mission Aviation Fellowship in Honduras and Southeast Asia. Other topics discussed include. Berry’s service in the Army during World War II, his views on pacifism, the origins of Mission Aviation Fellowship, challenges of MAF, and the effect of life on the mission field on Berry’s family.Donald Berry was interviewed by Robert Shuster on...
Dates:
Created: 1986
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 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 428 Papers of Helen E. Berry
Collection
Identifier: CN 428
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview and prayer letters relating to the ministry of Helen Elizabeth Berry, missionary with the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society in Taiwan from 1966-1990.Series: Audio TapesOral history interview with Helen E. Berry in which she describes her youth, family, conversion, call to be a missionary, education at Wheaton College, missionary work with the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society in Taiwan, church...
Dates:
Created: 1990
Collection 434 Papers of Jack Frizen
Collection
Identifier: CN 434
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, articles, brochures, booklets, clippings, correspondence, directories, financial records, manuals, minutes, publications, reports, and other materials documenting Jack Frizen's life and ministry. Material mainly describes Frizen’s family life, work with G.I. Gospel Hour, director of Far East Gospel Crusade (now SEND International), executive director of Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA), director of Tyndale House Foundation, trustee of the Henry...
Dates:
Created: 1929-1995
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: -
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Special Collections
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Conversion Narratives Collection
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- Evangelistic work. 12
- Children of missionaries. 11
- Missionaries -- Training of. 11
- Church and state. 10
- Conversion. 9
- Indigenous church administration 9
- Women missionaries. 9
- Church development, New. 8
- Language in missionary work. 8
- Christianity and culture. 7
- Education 7
- Tribes. 7
- Catholic Church. 6
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 6
- Christian education. 6
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 6
- Missions -- Educational work. 6
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 6
- Missions, Medical. 6
- Sex role. 6
- Women 6
- Women -- Religious life. 6
- Animism. 5
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 5
- Medical care 5
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 5
- Superstition. 5
- Boarding schools. 4
- Christian leadership. 4
- Christian life. 4
- Evangelicalism. 4
- Fund raising. 4
- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
- Pentecostalism. 4
- Radio in missionary work. 4
- Rural missions. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 4
- Worship. 4
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 3
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Church schools 3
- Church work with children. 3
- Church work with military personnel. 3
- College students. 3
- Communism. 3
- Culture shock. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 3
- Family. 3
- Great Britain 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- Missions -- Africa. 3
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 3
- Missions. 3
- Occultism. 3
- Racism. 3
- Rural churches. 3
- Sunday schools. 3
- Theological seminaries. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 3
- World War, 1939-1945. 3
- Alcoholism -- United States 2
- Apartheid. 2
- Belgium. 2
- Belgium. -- Administration. 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Boarding schools -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Brethren Assemblies -- Missions. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Christian education -- United States. 2
- Christian education -- Zambia. 2
- Church and state -- United States. 2
- Church and state -- Zambia. 2
- Church discipline. 2
- Church work with children -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Church work with women. 2
- College students -- Religious life. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- Communism -- Zambia. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Religion. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic)--Social life and customs 2
- Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Education -- Zambia. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Zambia. 2
- Idols and images. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Zambia. 2
- Intercultural communication. 2
- Interpersonal conflict. 2
- Jevovah's Witnesses -- Missions. 2
- Laity. 2 ∧ less
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