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 242 Oral History Interview with Ruth E. Hess
Collection
Identifier: CN 242
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Ruth Edna DeVelde Hess (1909-1997), a missionary with the Plymouth Brethren Church at Sakeji School for missionary children in Zambia. Topics discussed include: Hess' life as a child in Wheaton, Illinois, and education at Wheaton Academy and Wheaton College; marriage to Lyndon Roth Hess; calling to be teachers of missionary children; decision to go to Africa; their work at Sakeji School from 1932 to 1982; and descriptions of life and customs in Zambia among the...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Collection 260 Oral History Interviews with Jeannette Thiessen
Collection
Identifier: CN 260
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Jeannette Louise Martig Thiessen (1927-2014) in which she discusses her family life in Illinois, favorite professors and her education at Wheaton College, nurses' training, and years in India (1952-1974) working with her husband under the sponsorship of the Mennonite Mission to the Lepers and American Leprosy Mission. Other topics discussed include: the Indian caste system, Indian politics, economics, literacy, hospital work with lepers, the Indian church,...
Dates:
Created: 1983
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 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 402 Papers of Debbie Dortzbach
Collection
Identifier: CN 402
Scope and Contents
Audio recordings, including an oral history interview, diary, and several letters, relating to the career and ministry of Debbie Dortzbach, missionary to Kenya and Eritrea with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and later the Reformed Presbyterian Church from 1973 to 1988.Series: Audio TapesOne oral history interview with Debbie Dortzbach in which she describes her describes her childhood, education at Wheaton College, and missionary work in...
Dates:
Created: 1974-1989
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
Collection 468 Oral History Interviews with Elizabeth C. Stough
Collection
Identifier: CN 468
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Elizabeth Quackenbush Stough (1913-2009) in which she discusses her parents, childhood, education, conversion, attendance at Moody Bible Institute, call to be a missionary, joining Africa Inland Mission, travel to Africa, work in French Equatorial Africa, evangelistic field trips, her husband Paul Stough, her work among women in the Belgian Congo, the growth of the Africa Inland Church, the independence of the Congo, the Congolese civil war and Simba uprising,...
Dates:
Created: 1992-1993
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
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Evangelistic work. 9
- Language in missionary work. 9
- Indigenous church administration 8
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 8
- Conversion. 7
- Missionaries -- Training of. 7
- Christian education. 5
- Church and state. 5
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 5
- Missions -- Educational work. 5
- Missions, Medical. 5
- Sex role. 5
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 5
- Boarding schools. 4
- Christian life. 4
- Christianity and culture. 4
- Education 4
- Medical care 4
- Missionaries' spouses. 4
- Missions -- Finance. 4
- Belgium. 3
- Belgium. -- Administration. 3
- Bible colleges 3
- Bible. 3
- Catholic Church. 3
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- College students. 3
- Communism. 3
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 3
- Culture shock. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Family. 3
- Fund raising. 3
- India -- History -- 1947- 3
- India -- History. 3
- Indigenous church administration -- India. 3
- Intercultural communication. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
- Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 3
- Missions -- India. 3
- Missions. 3
- Rural missions. 3
- Tribes. 3
- World War, 1939-1945. 3
- Worship. 3
- Animism. 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies 2
- Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
- Bible colleges -- United States. 2
- Caste. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
- China -- History. 2
- China -- Religion. 2
- Christian education -- China. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Church and state -- India. 2
- Church development, New. 2
- Church growth -- India. 2
- Church growth. 2
- Church schools 2
- Church work with children. 2
- College students -- United States 2
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- Communism -- China. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic)--Social life and customs 2
- Ecumenical movement. 2
- Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Education -- India. 2
- Education, Higher 2
- Education, Higher -- India. 2
- Evangelistic work -- China. 2
- Evangelistic work -- India. 2
- Hinduism 2
- Hinduism -- Doctrines. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 2
- Lay missionaries. 2
- Liberalism (Religion) 2
- Marriage. 2
- Missionaries -- United States. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missions -- Africa. 2
- Missions -- China. 2
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 2
- Missions -- Congresses. 2
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Missions -- Kenya. 2
- Missions to Hindus. 2
- Missions, Medical -- India. 2
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
- Nairobi (Kenya) 2 ∧ less
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