Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 8 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 187 Papers of Eleanor R. Elliott
Collection
Identifier: CN 187
Scope and Contents
Family correspondence, prayer letters, brochures, newspaper clippings, prayer cards and letters from other missionaries, photographs, slides, negatives, journals and diaries, and eight interviews concerning Elliott's childhood in China, mission work with China Inland Mission (now Overseas Missionary Fellowship) in China and the Philippines, her experiences as an evangelist and teacher, her life in China during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945, and the civil war that followed. Her retirement...
Dates:
Created: 1910-1988
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 347 Oral History Interview with Ruth M. Long
Collection
Identifier: CN 347
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Ruth Margaret (Hollander) Long in which she discusses her conversion, education at Wheaton College, work as a missionary for the Sudan Interior Mission tohgether with her husband Burt) in Niger and Nigeria from 1950 through 1984. Other topics discussed include raising a family on the mission field, development of an AWANA program for Hausa children, evangelistic activities, impressions of the French colonial system, the independence of Niger, Hamami Diori,...
Dates:
Created: 1986
Collection 351 Oral History Interview with Burt E. Long
Collection
Identifier: CN 351
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Burt E. Long by Wheaton College student Heather Conley in which Long discusses his memories of Paul Rader and the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, his education at Wheaton College, and his decades of services as a medical missionary for Sudan Interior Mission in Niger and Nigeria. The time period covered by the interviews is 1930-1986.
Burt Long was interviewed by Wheaton College student Heather Conley on November 26 and December 3, 1986.
Dates:
Created: 1986
Collection 424 Oral History Interviews with Ruth L. Maxwell
Collection
Identifier: CN 424
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Ruth Lillian Maxwell in which she talks about her family background, including her grandfather, L.E. Maxwell, founder of Prairie Bible Institute, and her parents, missionaries with Sudan Interior Mission (SIM) in Nigeria; Nigerian village life; experiences at boarding school; conversion to Christianity; spiritual development; education in Canada at Prairie Bible Institute; joining SIM; missions work in Liberia teaching the Bible and leading study groups for...
Dates:
Created: 1989
Collection 493 Oral History Interviews with Stella Kasirye
Collection
Identifier: CN 493
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Stella Kasirye in which she describes her childhood in Uganda; her conversion to Christian faith while at school; her involvement in programs to reach street children; her efforts to develop programs of AIDS education and care among college students and the country at large, and observations on the church in Uganda and missionary efforts there. The time period covered by the interviews is 1965 to 1993.Stella Kasirye was interviewed by Robert Shuster...
Dates:
Created: 1993
Collection 553 Oral History Interview with Alex Sackey-Ansah
Collection
Identifier: CN 553
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Alex Atempo Sackey-Ansah in which he describes his family, conversion and spiritual development, education, joining PioneersAfrica, distinctives and programs of the mission, his responsibilities, PioneersAfrica director Solomon Aryeetey, Church of Pentecost, the church in Ghana, missions in Africa, African missionaries, church planting philosophy and process, conflict resolution in Africa, American perceptions of Africa and the African church, establishing a...
Dates:
Created: 1998
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Evangelistic work. 7
- Indigenous church administration 7
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 6
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 6
- Christian education. 5
- Conversion. 5
- Missionaries -- Training of. 5
- Missions -- Educational work. 5
- Missions, Medical. 5
- Children of missionaries. 4
- Church and state. 4
- Church work with women. 4
- Medical care 4
- Tribes. 4
- Women missionaries. 4
- Bible. 3
- Christianity and culture. 3
- Church growth -- Nigeria. 3
- Church work with children. 3
- Education 3
- Family. 3
- Indigenous church administration -- Nigeria. 3
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 3
- Language in missionary work. 3
- Missions -- India. 3
- Missions -- Nigeria. 3
- Missions to Muslims. 3
- Muslims. 3
- Worship. 3
- Baptism. 2
- Bible colleges 2
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
- Catholic Church. 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- Christian education -- Niger. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Church and state -- Niger. 2
- Church and state -- Nigeria. 2
- Church growth -- India. 2
- Church growth -- Niger. 2
- Church work with women -- Niger. 2
- College students. 2
- Education -- India. 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- India. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Niger. 2
- France 2
- France -- Colonies 2
- France -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Great Britain 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 2
- Hausa (African people) 2
- Hausa (African people) -- Niger. 2
- India -- Description and travel. 2
- India -- History -- 1947- 2
- India -- History. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- India. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Niger. 2
- International relief -- Niger. 2
- International relief. 2
- Medical care -- Niger. 2
- Medical care -- Nigeria. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missions -- Niger. 2
- Missions to Muslims -- Niger. 2
- Missions, Medical -- India. 2
- Missions, Medical -- Nigeria. 2
- Muslims -- Niger. 2
- Niger 2
- Niger -- Economic conditions. 2
- Niger -- Social conditions. 2
- Pentecostalism. 2
- Refugees 2
- Revivals. 2
- Sex role. 2
- Theological seminaries. 2
- Tribes -- Niger. 2
- Tribes -- Nigeria. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 2
- AIDS (Disease) 1
- Anglicans. 1
- Animism -- Liberia. 1
- Animism. 1
- Baptism in the Holy Spirit. 1
- Baptists -- Missions -- Uganda. 1
- Baptists -- Missions. 1
- Baptists. 1
- Bible -- Inspiration. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution -- China. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 1
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
- Bible colleges -- Canada. 1
- Bible colleges -- India. 1
- Boarding schools -- Nigeria. 1 ∧ less
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