Wycliffe Bible Translators.
Organization
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 115 Oral History Interview with Raymond Elliott
Collection
Identifier: CN 115
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Raymond Leroy Elliott (1924-2008), Wycliffe Bible translator working among the Ixil Indian tribe in Guatemala. Interview topics include educational work and life in Wheaton, translation activities, missionary training, mission responsibilities, and political, social, and cultural events in Central America. The time period covered by the interviews is roughly 1924-1980.Raymond Elliott was interviewed by Chris Matthews, a Wheaton College graduate...
Dates:
Created: 1980
Collection 116 Oral History Interviews with Helen Elliott
Collection
Identifier: CN 116
Scope and Contents
Oral History interviews conducted with Helen Ruth Belcher Elliot (1927-2012), missionary with Wycliffe Bible Translators to the Ixil Indian tribe in Guatemala. Topics include Wheaton College during the 1940s, field experiences, Guatemalan culture and religion, and family activities. Topics covered in the interview include: Elliott's childhood, marriage and early family life, education at Wheaton College (including courses, academic and social life), decision to become a missionary with...
Dates:
Created: 1980
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 302 Oral History Interview with David L. Farah
Collection
Identifier: CN 302
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with David Livingstone Farah, in which he discusses his upbringing, education at Wheaton College, work as an administrator with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Peru and Bolivia, and relationships with other religious bodies, national groups and governments. Other topics include the 1950 revival at Wheaton College; Wycliffe jungle training in Mexico; the Catholic Church in Bolivia and the prevalence of syncretism; differences between Peru and Bolivia; description of...
Dates:
Created: 1985
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 314 Oral History Interview with Martha H. Philips
Collection
Identifier: CN 314
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Martha H. Philips (1905-1996) in which she describes her childhood, education, missionary work in China with China Inland Mission at Chefoo School as a teacher of missionary children, her internment by the Japanese at Temple Hill and Wei Xian camps, repatriation, working with Wycliffe Bible Translators among the Zapotec Indians in southern Mexico, and traveling throughout the world representing the mission. The time period covered by the interviews is roughly...
Dates:
Created: 1985
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 407 Records of InterAct Ministries
Collection
Identifier: CN 407
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, minutes, newsletters, brochures, handbook, video tapes, and historical sketches documenting the ministry of the mission. Topics covered include administration of the mission, the Arctic Bible Institute, infant baptism, the Moravian Church, Arctic Training Center, Victory High School, Multi Media Production, the correspondence school program, Victory Bible Camp, Slavic Gospel Association's transfer of its work in Alaska to AMI, Native Institute of Canada, Native Bible Centre...
Dates:
Created: 1947-1989
Collection 409 Papers of David D. Thomas
Collection
Identifier: CN 409
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, photographs, negatives, and clippings relating to the linguistic and missionary work of David and Dorothy Thomas in the Philippines, Vietnam (especially with the Chrau tribe), Cambodia, and Thailand with Wycliffe Bible Translators from 1954-1975. The bulk of the content consists of David and Dorothy's letters to his mother, Ruth, who lived in Wheaton, IL. Topics covered in the correspondence include information on the Thomas family, missionary work in the Philippines, and...
Dates:
Created: 1954-1975
Collection 427 Oral History Interviews with Americo Saavedra
Collection
Identifier: CN 427
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Americo Saavedra, a Peruvian-born missionary working with HCJB in Ecuador, in which he describes his childhood, family, conversion, Catholicism in Peru and Ecuador, radio station HCJB and its ministry, Quito, Ecuador, his decision to be a missionary, employment with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Peru. Other topics include his education at Moody Bible Institute, Christian education in Ecuador, informal education, Summer Institute of Linguistics, the state of the...
Dates:
Created: 1990
Collection 508 Oral History Interviews with Barbara L. Collins
Collection
Identifier: CN 508
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Barbara Lynn (Miner) Collins in which she describes her childhood; family's religious background; conversion to Christianity; spiritual development in college and young professional life; acceptance as a missionary by Africa Inland Mission (AIM); arrival on the mission field in Kenya; work among the Rendile and Kikuyu peoples; raising children on the mission field; development of women's program at Africa Inland Church Missionary College; work among women refugees...
Dates:
Created: 1995
Collection 510 Oral History Interviews with Erik S. Barnett
Collection
Identifier: CN 510
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Erik Stanley Barnett (1910-2006) in which he describes his childhood in Kenya as the son of missionary parents; his own work in that country as pastor, church planter, educator and administrator with Africa Inland Mission (AIM); the internal developments of AIM and of the Africa Inland Church in Kenya during the twentieth century. Other topics discussed include: his parents’ missionary service in Kenya among the Maasai people; changes in AIM missionary training...
Dates:
Created: 1995
Collection 545 Papers of Jacqueline Huggins
Collection
Identifier: CN 545
Scope and Contents
One oral history interview, one videotape, one radio interview, one photograph, and prayer letters related to the ministry of Jacqueline Huggins, missionary and Bible translator with Wycliffe Bible Translators among the Kagayanen people of the Philippines.The recordings, comprising the majority of the collection, consist of an oral history with Huggins (see detailed description which follows) and of the radio program Family Portraits segment hosted...
Dates:
Created: 1985-1997
Collection 623 Oral History Interviews with Christopher B. Ladish
Collection
Identifier: CN 623
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Christopher Ladish in which he discusses his childhood, conversion to Christian faith, marriage, joining Wycliffe Bible Translators/Summer Institute of Linguistics, his translation and literacy work in the Koromfe language among the Koromba people of Burkina Faso, the characteristics of the Wycliffe organization and staff, and methods of Bible translation. The time period covered by the interviews is 1961 to 2006.Christopher Ladish was interviewed by...
Dates:
2006
Collection 642 Oral History Interviews with Susan Nivens
Collection
Identifier: CN 642
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Susan Nivens, in which she discusses her childhood in Michigan, development of her Christian faith, education at Bethany Bible College, joining the Summer Institute of Linguistics/Wycliffe Bible Translators, the relationship between the two; her marriage; work in Indonesia among the Tarangan people; raising a family in the field; the processes of Bible translation; Indonesian village life; Muslim/Christian relations; experiences during a jihad, helping to create...
Dates:
2009
Jonathan Burmeister manuscript.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2017-051
Dates:
2016
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
V24. The Good Seed, 1986
Item
Identifier: V24
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Moving image recordings in this collection provide a representative sampling of post-war evangelical Christian film companies, and cover various topics such as dramatizations of stories from the life of Jesus and of the Apostle Paul, Christian lifestyle, church and social issues, communism, drug and alcohol abuse, evangelism, immigration, materialism, mass media in religion, meaning of life, missions, the natural world as a reflection of God, politics, refugees, relationships, rock and roll,...
Dates:
1986
Vernon W. Patterson Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 005
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, clippings, reports, financial records, press releases, promotional material, forms, newsletters, and oral history interviews relating to Vernon W. Patterson's (1892-1991) active participation and leadership in evangelistic activities in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area. The papers focus particularly on his involvement in various evangelical lay organizations and other institutions and the early career of Billy Graham. The interviews were recorded on 3/4/85 and 3/5/85 and...
Dates:
Created: 1900-1985
Wilbur and Evelyn Aulie papers.
Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1991-076
Dates:
1958-1972
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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- Subject: Bible. X
Additional filters:
- Type
- Collection 16
- Unprocessed Material 2
- Archival Object 1
- Subject
- Bible -- Translating. 14
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 13
- Evangelistic work. 12
- Missionaries -- Training of. 12
- Missionaries. 12
- Bible. 10
- Conversion. 9
- Indigenous church administration 9
- Language in missionary work. 9
- Tribes. 9
- Christianity and culture. 8
- Church and state. 8
- Women -- Religious life. 8
- Women missionaries. 8
- Animism. 7
- Catholic Church. 7
- Children of missionaries. 7
- Christian education. 7
- Women 7
- Bible colleges 6
- Christian life. 6
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 5
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 4
- Christian leadership. 4
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. 4
- Education 4
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 4
- Evangelicalism. 4
- Family. 4
- Fund raising. 4
- Linguistics 4
- Marriage. 4
- Medical care 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 4
- Missionaries' spouses. 4
- Missions -- Educational work. 4
- Religious institutions. 4
- Translating and interpreting. 4
- World War, 1939-1945. 4
- Bible colleges -- United States. 3
- Christian martyrs. 3
- Christmas. 3
- College students -- Religious life. 3
- College students. 3
- Communism. 3
- Fundamentalism. 3
- Great Britain 3
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 3
- Linguists 3
- Linguists -- United States. 3
- Missions -- Mexico. 3
- Missions -- Finance. 3
- Missions -- Peru. 3
- Missions, Medical. 3
- Missions. 3
- Pentecostalism. 3
- Animism -- Guatemala. 2
- Baptism. 2
- Belief and doubt. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Guatemala. 2
- Christianity and culture -- United States. 2
- Church growth. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- College students in missionary work. 2
- Culture shock. 2
- Divorce. 2
- Education -- Guatemala. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Ecuador. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Guatemala. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 2
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
- Family -- United States. 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 2
- Guatemala 2
- Guatemala -- Economic conditions. 2
- Guatemala -- Race relations. 2
- Guatemala -- Religion 2
- Indians of Central America 2
- Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Missions. 2
- Indians of Central America -- Guatemala. 2
- Indians of South America. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Guatemala. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 2
- Ixil Indians -- Missions. 2
- Ixil Indians -- Religion. 2
- Ixil Indians. 2
- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) 2
- Linguistics -- Guatemala. 2
- Literacy 2
- Literacy -- Guatemala. 2
- Medical care -- Guatemala. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missions -- Guatemala. 2
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Missions -- Kenya. 2
- Missions -- Philippines. 2
- Missions -- Public relations. 2
- Missions -- Rural work. 2 ∧ less
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