Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 096 Oral History Interview with Wayne G. Bragg
Collection
Identifier: CN 096-096
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Wayne G. Bragg (1931-2009), in which he describes his missionary experiences in Brazil and the Caribbean working with university students, his student days at Wheaton College, and his experience at Wheaton College as a faculty member. Dr. Bragg was interviewed by Mary Ann Buffington at Wheaton College on February 15 and May 9, 1980.
Dates:
Created: 1980
Collection 116 Oral History Interviews with Helen Elliott
Collection
Identifier: CN 116
Scope and Contents
Oral History interviews conducted with Helen Ruth Belcher Elliot (1927-2012), missionary with Wycliffe Bible Translators to the Ixil Indian tribe in Guatemala. Topics include Wheaton College during the 1940s, field experiences, Guatemalan culture and religion, and family activities. Topics covered in the interview include:Â Elliott's childhood, marriage and early family life, education at Wheaton College (including courses, academic and social life), decision to become a missionary with...
Dates:
Created: 1980
Collection 122 Oral History Interview with Gladys M. Fleckles
Collection
Identifier: CN 122
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Gladys Marie Fleckles (1946-2006) in which she describes her short term missionary experience with OMF in Japan. Other topics include her graduate work at Wheaton, undergraduate study at John Brown University, and work in the admissions department of Wheaton Graduate School. The time period covered by the interview is roughly 1946-1980.Gladys Fleckles was interviewed by Mr. John Svadbik twice in May 1980. The time period covered by the interviews is...
Dates:
Created: 1980
Collection 185 Papers of Albert and Muriel Nichols
Collection
Identifier: CN 185
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, photos, negatives and miscellaneous documents concerning family events and career decisions relating to the Nicholas’ missionary work in Sierra Leone. The bulk of the letters were sent to family during a two year period while the Nichols were serving as missionaries to Sierra Leone, where Albert was director of Industrial Education at Albert Academy. Topics include life in and methods of education of an urban missionary school in the 1920's, teaching industrial education at...
Dates:
Created: 1904-1952
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 272 Papers of Jennie Fitzwilliam
Collection
Identifier: CN 272
Scope and Contents
Letters with some translation, photographs, a Lisu translation of the New Testament, combined catechism and hymnbook in the Atsi Kachin language, slides, and four oral history interviews all related to Jennie Fitzwilliam's mission work with Overseas Missionary Fellowship (formerly China Inland Mission) among the Lisu and Kachin peoples in southern China along the Burmese border. Included are recollections of Fitzwilliam's husband, Francis, J.O. Fraser and the early history of missionary work...
Dates:
Created: 1985
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 299 Oral History Interview with Ruth M. Thomas
Collection
Identifier: CN 299
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Ruth M. Thomas about her family and religious background, conversion, recollections of Billy Sunday's campaign in Scranton, PA in 1914, her education at Wheaton College, call to foreign missions, work as a missionary nurse with the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions in a rehabilitation program of a leper colony in southwestern China along the Burmese border among the Tai-Lu people, language study, worship and use of music, an anti-opium campaign, and a...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Collection 398 Oral History Interview with Wayne L. Gordon
Collection
Identifier: CN 398
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Wayne LeRoy Gordon, pastor of Lawndale Community Church, a nondenominational church in Chicago's predominantly black community, Lawndale. Topics covered include Gordon's youth, the influence of his family on his spiritual growth, his call to work in the black community, his education at Wheaton College, ministry through Lawndale Community Church in Chicago (its structure, various ministries, including health care, education, and recreation), and the African...
Dates:
Created: 1988
Collection 401 Oral History Interview with Karl G. Dortzbach
Collection
Identifier: CN 401
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Karl G. Dortzbach in which he describes his childhood and youth, influence of his family, education at Wheaton College and Westminster Theological Seminary, and missionary experience in Ethiopia (short term with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church) and in Kenya. Subjects covered include missiology, conversion, raising children on the mission field, marital relationships on the mission field, church life in a Nairobi congregation, proliferation of parachurch groups...
Dates:
Created: 1988-1989
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: -
Found in:
Special Collections
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Conversion Narratives Collection
Wheaton College Revivals Collection
Collection
Identifier: CN 514
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, questionnaires, reports, videos, and other materials relating to spontaneous revivals on Wheaton College campus in the twentieth century. There are restrictions on some material in this collection. The collection primarily documents the March 1995 revival at the College, largely through oral history interviews conducted during or shortly after the event; also included are thirteen follow-up interviews conducted two years after the revival.
Dates:
Created: 1936-1997; Other: Majority of material found in 1994-1995
Filtered By
- Subject: Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 11
- Missionaries. 11
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 11
- Christianity and culture. 10
- Indigenous church administration 9
- Language in missionary work. 9
- Conversion. 8
- Missions, Medical. 8
- Tribes. 8
- Catholic Church. 7
- Children of missionaries. 7
- Church and state. 7
- College students. 7
- Missionaries -- Training of. 7
- Missions -- Educational work. 7
- Women missionaries. 7
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 6
- Christian education. 6
- Christian life. 6
- Church development, New. 6
- Education 6
- Medical care 6
- Women 6
- Women -- Religious life. 6
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 5
- Religious institutions. 5
- Church and social problems. 4
- College students -- Religious life. 4
- College students in missionary work. 4
- Culture shock. 4
- Missions -- Finance. 4
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
- Racism. 4
- Animism. 3
- Bible colleges 3
- Bible. 3
- Boarding schools. 3
- Christian leadership. 3
- Christianity and culture -- United States. 3
- College students -- United States 3
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 3
- Communism. 3
- Great Britain 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 3
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
- Race relations. 3
- Rural churches. 3
- Rural missions. 3
- Sex role. 3
- Superstition. 3
- Theological seminaries. 3
- Tribes -- Africa. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Athletics. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 3
- Worship. 3
- Bible -- Translating. 2
- Bible colleges -- United States. 2
- Brethren Assemblies -- Missions. 2
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
- Christian education -- Zambia. 2
- Church and state -- Zambia. 2
- Church discipline. 2
- Church management. 2
- Cities and towns. 2
- Communism -- Zambia. 2
- Education -- Zambia. 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Zambia. 2
- Family. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Zambia. 2
- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Jevovah's Witnesses -- Missions. 2
- Laity. 2
- Lay missionaries. 2
- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) 2
- Literacy 2
- Medical care -- Zambia. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missions -- Africa -- Politics and government. 2
- Missions -- Africa. 2
- Missions -- China. 2
- Missions -- Zambia. 2
- Missions to Muslims. 2
- Occultism. 2
- Racism -- United States. 2
- Racism -- Zambia. 2
- Revivals -- Wheaton. 2
- Revivals. 2
- Rural churches -- Zambia. 2
- Rural missions -- China. 2
- Southern Lunda (African people) 2
- Tribes -- China. 2
- Tribes -- Zambia. 2 ∧ less
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