Wheaton College (Ill.)
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Found in 6 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 186 Papers of M. Douglas Hursh
Collection
Identifier: CN 186
Scope and Contents
Two oral history interviews, manuscript material, photographs, and memorabilia relatingn to Marion Douglas Hursh's work with Sudan Interior Mission's Kano Eye Hospital, Kano in Nigeria from 1942-1962. Topics covered concern Hursh's education and work as a medical missionary at the Sudan Interior Mission's Kano Eye Hospital in Kano, Nigeria, as well as various aspects of church life and mission activity in Nigeria. Events described in the interviews cover the time period from 1904 to...
Dates:
Created: 1904-1982
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 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 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
Helen Renich Papers.
Collection
Identifier: CN 124
Brief Description
Two oral history interviews with Helen Gignilliat Torrey Renich in which she describes her grandfather, Reuben Archer Torrey, Sr., and her experiences growing up in China as a child of missionaries. Other topics discussed include her experiences at Wheaton College and culture shock. The collection also includes photographs of her family life in China and Chinese nationals, ca. 1920-30s.Helen Renich was interviewed by Robert Shuster on May 15, 1980 in Michigan and on May 17, 1982...
Dates:
Created: 1920-1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Helen Renich Papers.
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- Children of missionaries. 5
- Conversion. 5
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 5
- Missionaries. 5
- Sex role. 5
- Christian education. 4
- Christianity and culture. 4
- Church and state. 4
- Culture shock. 4
- Indigenous church administration 4
- Missionaries -- Training of. 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- World War, 1939-1945. 4
- Church work with women. 3
- Family. 3
- Language in missionary work. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
- Missions -- China. 3
- Belief and doubt. 2
- Bible -- Translating. 2
- Bible. 2
- Boarding schools -- China. 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Children -- United States 2
- Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- Children. 2
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
- China -- History. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Demoniac possession 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- China. 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Medical care 2
- Missionaries -- Retirement. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 2
- Missions -- Educational work. 2
- Missions, Medical. 2
- Missions. 2
- Persecution. 2
- Social change. 2
- Tribes. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
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- Animism. 1
- Belgium. 1
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- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 1
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
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- Bible colleges -- United States. 1
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- Boarding schools -- Korea. 1
- Bunia (Congo) 1
- Catholic Church -- Portugal. 1
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- Chicago (Ill.) 1
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- China -- Church history -- 20th century. 1
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- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 1
- China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901. 1
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 1
- China -- Religion. 1
- China. 1
- Chinese language. 1
- Christian education -- Africa, East. 1
- Christian education -- China. 1
- Christian education -- Singapore. 1
- Christian education -- Study and teaching. 1
- Christian education -- United States. 1
- Christian education of adults. 1
- Christian giving. 1
- Christian life. 1
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- Portugal. 1
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- Zaire, 1
- Christian martyrs -- Thailand. 1
- Christian martyrs. 1
- Christianity and culture -- Portugal. 1
- Christianity and culture -- Thailand. 1
- Christianity and culture -- United States. 1
- Christianity and other religions. 1
- Christmas. 1
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
- Church and state -- Nigeria. 1
- Church and state -- Portugal. 1
- Church and state -- Singapore. 1
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