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Wheaton College (Ill.)

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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

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 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 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 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

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

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  • Subject: Missions -- Finance. X
  • Subject: Worship. X

Additional filters:

Subject
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 5
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 5
Women missionaries. 5
Worship. 5
Animism. 4
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Children of missionaries. 4
Christianity and culture. 4
Church and state. 4
Missionaries -- Training of. 4
Sex role. 4
Women 4
Women -- Religious life. 4
Boarding schools. 3
Christian education. 3
Church discipline. 3
Evangelicalism. 3
Indigenous church administration 3
Language in missionary work. 3
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
Missions, Medical. 3
Missions. 3
Pentecostalism. 3
Tribes. 3
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
Catholic Church. 2
Children. 2
Christian education -- United States. 2
Christian leadership. 2
Christian life. 2
Church and social problems. 2
Church architecture. 2
Church development, New. 2
Church work with children. 2
Culture shock. 2
Education 2
Evangelicalism -- United States. 2
Evangelistic work -- South Africa. 2
Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
Family. 2
Idols and images. 2
Independent churches. 2
Intercultural communication. 2
Interdenominational cooperation. 2
Interpersonal conflict. 2
Medical care 2
Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
Missions -- Educational work. 2
Missions -- Honduras. 2
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
Missions -- Nigeria. 2
Missions -- Study and teaching. 2
Missions to Muslims. 2
Moravian Church -- Missions. 2
Pentecostalism -- United States. 2
Prayer groups. 2
Radio in missionary work. 2
Revivals -- Wheaton. 2
Revivals. 2
Rural missions. 2
Soldiers 2
Sunday schools -- Chicago. 2
Sunday schools. 2
Superstition. 2
Theological seminaries. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 2
Women in church work. 2
World War, 1939-1945. 2
AIDS (Disease) 1
Aeronautics in missionary work. 1
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 -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
Animism -- Nigeria. 1
Animism -- South Africa. 1
Animism -- Taiwan. 1
Apartheid. 1
Arminianism -- United States 1
Arminianism. 1
BGEA: South Africa Tour -- 1960 1
Baptists -- Missions -- Taiwan. 1
Baptists -- Missions. 1
Baptists -- Taiwan. 1
Baptists. 1
Belief and doubt. 1
Bible colleges 1
Bible colleges -- Nigeria. 1
Boarding schools -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
Boarding schools -- Nigeria. 1
Boarding schools -- South Africa. 1
Buddhists -- Taiwan. 1
Buddhists. 1
Calvinism -- United States 1
Calvinism. 1
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