Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 171 Papers of Albert and Mary Lee Bobby
Collection
Identifier: CN 171
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and personal papers of Albert and Mary Lee Bobby, missionaries in Lisbon and Santiago do Cacem, Portugal, under The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM). Collection includes interviews, articles, correspondence, prayer letters, manuscript notes, and other material from the Bobbys about their mission work, including evangelism and radio broadcasting. The correspondence also includes information on various theological issues and American Christian leaders. The oral...
Dates:
Created: 1980-1982
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 278: Elisabeth Elliot Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 278
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, slides, clippings, publicity releases, reviews, manuscripts, films, video and audio tapes relating to Elisabeth Elliot's careers as a missionary in Ecuador, author, teacher and speaker. The collection is particularly rich in material relating to the so-called "Auca Incident" and Elliot's own work the Waorani, whose enemies called them the "Auca," as well as her lectures on the Biblical view of the roles of men and women, dealing with suffering, and personal holiness, among...
Dates:
Created: 1926-2010; Majority of material found within 1938-2010
Collection 311 Papers of Charles J. Guth
Collection
Identifier: CN 311
Scope and Contents
Water color paintings and oral history interviews with Charles J. Guth, relating to Guth’s missionary work in Africa with the Sudan Interior Mission. Topics covered by the interviews include: Guth’s education at Wheaton College, preparation for the mission field as a worker with Sudan Interior Mission, his life, work, and contacts as a missionary among the Koma and Maban people of the Sudan; the culture of these peoples; the effect of Sudan's independence on the church in the Sudan,...
Dates:
Created: 1976-1985
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 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 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 625 Papers of Lois Gregory
Collection
Identifier: CN 625
Scope and Contents
Class papers and notes, correspondence, hymns, manuscript, post cards, sermon notes, and thesis documenting the ministry of Lois Vashti Gregory, American Methodist evangelist and teacher of Christian values to young people. Her ministry not only included preaching to adults but also teaching young people, especially children, in Christian ethics and living a morally pure life. Gregory was particularly active in the northeast region of the United States.
Dates:
Created: 1887-1961; Majority of material found in 1902-1961
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Missionaries. 7
- Evangelistic work. 6
- Missionaries -- Training of. 6
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 6
- Women missionaries. 6
- Children of missionaries. 5
- Church and state. 5
- Conversion. 5
- Language in missionary work. 5
- Christianity and culture. 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missions. 4
- Sex role. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 4
- Belief and doubt. 3
- Bible -- Translating. 3
- Catholic Church. 3
- Children. 3
- Christmas. 3
- Culture shock. 3
- Family. 3
- Indigenous church administration 3
- Medical care 3
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
- Missions -- Finance. 3
- Missions, Medical. 3
- Animism. 2
- Bible. 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Caste. 2
- Children -- United States 2
- Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- Christian education. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Christian martyrs. 2
- Church and state -- India. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- College students. 2
- Discrimination. 2
- Divorce. 2
- Education 2
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Hinduism 2
- Hinduism -- Doctrines. 2
- India -- History -- 1947- 2
- India -- History. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- India. 2
- Intercultural communication. 2
- Interpersonal conflict. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missions -- India. 2
- Missions to Hindus. 2
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
- Nursing. 2
- Pentecostalism. 2
- Persecution. 2
- Prayer groups. 2
- Racism. 2
- Religion in the public schools 2
- Sex role -- United States. 2
- Tribes. 2
- Worship. 2
- Alcoholism -- United States 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- History -- 1945- 1
- Animism -- South Africa. 1
- Animism -- Sudan. 1
- Antismoking movement. 1
- Apartheid. 1
- Authors and publishers. 1
- Authors and readers -- United States. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 1
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
- Bible colleges 1
- Bible colleges -- India. 1
- Boarding schools -- India. 1
- Boarding schools -- South Africa. 1
- Buddhism -- Doctrines. 1
- Buddhism -- Sri Lanka. 1
- Buddhism. 1
- Caste -- India. 1
- Caste. -- Sri Lanka. 1
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 1
- Catholic Church -- Portugal. 1
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 1
- Catholic Church. -- India. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Missions -- South Africa. 1
- Catholic Church. -- South Africa. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Sri Lanka. 1
- Child rearing -- Religious aspects -- Christianity 1 ∧ less
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