Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 10 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 283 Oral History Interviews with Nancy Folkerts
Collection
Identifier: CN 283
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Nancy Wood Folkerts. Topics discussed include her childhood as a pastor's daughter; study at Wheaton College; her marriage; training in London; work as a missionary in British Cameroon (now Republic of Cameroon), especially Bible study and literacy programs for women and 3H clubs for girls; the political and social situation in Cameroon; Cameroon independence; medical problems in Cameroon; the work of her husband, Fred, at the Baptist Teacher Training College and...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Collection 287 Oral History Interview with Margaret Crossett
Collection
Identifier: CN 287
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Margaret Rice Elliott Crossett in which she describes her childhood with her missionary parents in China, her education at Wheaton College, and missionary career with her husband, Vincent Crossett, in China and Taiwan with China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship (1929-1948, 1961-1973). Topics discussed include Crossett's childhood in China; description of Chinese indigenous worship practices and syncretism in Chinese religious culture; Crossett's...
Dates:
Created: 1984-1986
Collection 288 Oral History Interview with Vincent L. Crossett
Collection
Identifier: CN 288
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Vincent Leroy Crossett (1907-1999) in which he describes his education at Wheaton and Westminster Seminary, missionary work with China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship in China and Taiwan, and pastoral work in a local church in Hawaii. Topics discussed include Crossett's education at Wheaton College and Westminster Seminary; decision to join China Inland Mission; language school; evangelism methods; characteristics of the Chinese church; CIM's...
Dates:
Created: 1984-1986
Collection 383 Oral History Interview with Itchaya Sitterley
Collection
Identifier: CN 383
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Itchaya Sitterley in which she describes her family, life in Thailand, education, career in television and radio, conversion, the evangelistic use of folk drama, the Thai church and comparisons between it and the American church, and Buddhism. Other topics discussed include Sitterley's work with the Chrisitan Communicatins Institute; her marriage; main denominations and seminaries in Thailand; and education at Wheaton College; competition among churches in...
Dates:
Created: 1987
Collection 388 Oral History Interviews with Catherine Saavedra Velasco
Collection
Identifier: CN 388
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Catherine Saavedra Velasco in which she discusses her life and ministry in the Philippines, including her childhood, education, and work as a Bible school teacher. Other topics covered include theological education and evangelism in the Philippines; work with "Here's Life Philippines," sponsored by Campus Crusade for Christ; the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church; Filipino culture; Muslim and Catholic communities in the Philippines; Ebenezer Bible College;...
Dates:
Created: 1988
Collection 392 Oral History Interviews with Dorothy J. Mainhood
Collection
Identifier: CN 392
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Dorothy Jane Mainhood in which she describes her childhood, conversion, spiritual growth, education at Wheaton College, call to be a missionary, and work in Thailand for Overseas Missionary Fellowship. Other topics discussed include Mainhood’s medical training, language study in Thailand, Thai people and culture, regional differences in Thailand, the Buddhist and Muslim communities in Thailand, religious syncretism, church-state relations, characteristics of...
Dates:
Created: 1988
Collection 415 Papers of Bonnie Stuckless
Collection
Identifier: CN 415
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, prayer letters, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and articles relating to the ministry of Bonnie G. Stuckless and her husband Donald Stuckless, missionaries in Colombia, Panama, and Spain with the Assemblies of God from 1970 to 1992.[NOTE: In the Scope and Content description, the notation "folder 2-5" means box 2, folder 5.]Series: Audio TapesTwo oral history...
Dates:
Created: 1969-1992
Collection 464 Oral History Interviews with Eileen J. Kuhn
Collection
Identifier: CN 464
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Eileen J. Kuhn in which she describes her family background; her conversion to Christianity; her medical training as a nurse; life at Moody Bible Institute in the late 1940s; China Inland Mission at about the same time; her call to foreign missions; her work at the CIM retirement home in Toronto; descriptions of John and Isobel Kuhn; work among the Lisu people in Thailand and Burma; translation of the Bible into the Lisu language; contacts with a former...
Dates:
Created: 1992-1994
Collection 562 Papers of Roger and Mary Howes
Collection
Identifier: CN 562
Scope and Contents
Address books, articles, autograph books, birthday book, correspondence, diaries, documents, journals, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, notebooks, photographs, prayer letters, scrapbooks, sermon notes, songbooks, and testimony which document the Howes' work as China Inland Mission (CIM) missionaries in China from 1925 through 1945, and their work at CIM (later Overseas Missionary Fellowship) office in Chicago and Headquarters in Philadelphia before they retired in 1965. Their correspondence...
Dates:
Created: 1899-1993
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 9
- Missionaries. 8
- Women missionaries. 8
- Christian education. 7
- Evangelistic work. 7
- Language in missionary work. 7
- Conversion. 6
- Family. 6
- Missionaries -- Training of. 6
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 6
- Catholic Church. 5
- Indigenous church administration 5
- Tribes. 5
- Children of missionaries. 4
- Christianity and culture. 4
- Communism. 4
- Culture shock. 4
- Missions -- China. 4
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 3
- Bible colleges 3
- Buddhists. 3
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 3
- China -- History. 3
- China -- Social life and customs. 3
- Christian education -- China. 3
- Church and state. 3
- Church development, New. 3
- Communism -- China. 3
- Education 3
- Medical care 3
- Missions -- Taiwan. 3
- Missions to Buddhists. 3
- Bible colleges -- United States. 2
- Buddhists -- China. 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 2
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 2
- Christian drama. 2
- Christian education -- Study and teaching. 2
- Christian education -- Taiwan. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Christianity and culture -- Thailand. 2
- Church schools 2
- Church work with women. 2
- Cities and towns. 2
- Crime and criminals 2
- Crime and criminals -- China. 2
- Evangelistic work -- China. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Thailand. 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- House churches. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Taiwan. 2
- Liberation theology. 2
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 2
- Missions to Buddhists -- Thailand. 2
- Nursing. 2
- Refugees 2
- Refugees -- China. 2
- Religious institutions. 2
- Rural missions. 2
- Sex role. 2
- Social change. 2
- Sunday schools. 2
- Thailand 2
- Thailand -- Religion. 2
- Theology 2
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 2
- Ancestor worship. 1
- Ancestor worship. -- China. 1
- Animism. 1
- Assemblies of God -- Missions. 1
- Bangkok, Thailand. 1
- Baptism in the Holy Spirit. 1
- Baptists -- Missions -- Cameroon. 1
- Baptists -- Missions. 1
- Baptists. 1
- Bible -- Evidences, authority, etc. 1
- Bible -- Translating. 1
- Bible colleges -- Philippines. 1
- Bible colleges. 1
- Boarding schools -- Africa. 1
- Boarding schools. 1
- Buddhism -- Christianity. 1
- Buddhism -- Doctrines. 1
- Buddhism -- Thailand. 1
- Buddhism. 1
- Buddhists -- Thailand. 1
- Cameroon. 1 ∧ less
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