Wheaton College (Ill.)
Organization
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
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 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 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 299 Oral History Interview with Ruth M. Thomas
Collection
Identifier: CN 299
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Ruth M. Thomas about her family and religious background, conversion, recollections of Billy Sunday's campaign in Scranton, PA in 1914, her education at Wheaton College, call to foreign missions, work as a missionary nurse with the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions in a rehabilitation program of a leper colony in southwestern China along the Burmese border among the Tai-Lu people, language study, worship and use of music, an anti-opium campaign, and a...
Dates:
Created: 1985
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 335 Papers of Ralph E. Shannon
Collection
Identifier: CN 335
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and paper records relating to Ralph Shannon’s life and ministry as a medical missionary in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo).Audio Tapes Four oral history interviews with Ralph Shannon, recorded on eight reels of audio tape. Topics covered include Shannon's childhood in Belgian Congo (Zaire) with his missionary parents, Wheaton College undergraduate and graduate education, service in Zaire as a medical...
Dates:
Created: 1986-1990
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
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Children of missionaries. 7
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 7
- Christianity and culture. 6
- Evangelistic work. 6
- Language in missionary work. 6
- Missionaries -- Training of. 6
- Tribes. 6
- Christian education. 5
- Communism. 5
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 5
- Medical care 5
- Missionaries' spouses. 5
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 5
- Missions -- China. 5
- Sex role. 5
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 5
- Bible. 4
- Catholic Church. 4
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 4
- China -- History. 4
- Christian education -- China. 4
- Christian life. 4
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 4
- Christian literature. 4
- Communism -- China. 4
- Conversion. 4
- Culture shock. 4
- Family. 4
- Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 4
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 3
- Boarding schools. 3
- Buddhists -- China. 3
- Buddhists. 3
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 3
- Church and state. 3
- Church development, New. 3
- Evangelistic work -- China. 3
- Medical care -- China. 3
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
- Missions -- Educational work. 3
- Missions -- Finance. 3
- Missions to Buddhists. 3
- Missions, Medical. 3
- Missions. 3
- Pentecostalism. 3
- Refugees 3
- Refugees -- China. 3
- Rural churches. 3
- Animism. 2
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 2
- China -- Religion. 2
- China -- Social life and customs. 2
- China. 2
- Christian education -- Taiwan. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Church discipline. 2
- Church work with children. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Religion. 2
- Crime and criminals 2
- Crime and criminals -- China. 2
- Ecumenical movement. 2
- Education 2
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Fund raising. 2
- Idols and images. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Taiwan. 2
- Intercultural communication. 2
- Interpersonal conflict. 2
- Lay missionaries. 2
- Liberalism (Religion) 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 2
- Missions -- India. 2
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Missions -- Taiwan. 2
- Missions to Buddhists -- China. 2
- Persecution. 2
- Presbyterians. 2
- Religious institutions. 2
- Rural churches -- China. 2
- Rural missions -- China. 2
- Rural missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Sunday schools. 2
- Superstition. 2
- Theology 2
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 2
- Tribes -- China. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 2 ∧ less
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