Wycliffe Bible Translators.
Organization
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
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 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 325 Oral History Interview with Donald W. Berry
Collection
Identifier: CN 325
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview in which Berry discusses his conversion, education at Wheaton College, and his work as a pilot and administrator for Mission Aviation Fellowship in Honduras and Southeast Asia. Other topics discussed include. Berry’s service in the Army during World War II, his views on pacifism, the origins of Mission Aviation Fellowship, challenges of MAF, and the effect of life on the mission field on Berry’s family.Donald Berry was interviewed by Robert Shuster on...
Dates:
Created: 1986
Collection 377 Papers of Elias Hatcher
Collection
Identifier: CN 377
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, audio tapes, photographs, diaries, and periodicals documenting the career of Elias Hatcher as a pilot for Mission Aviation Fellowship in Mexico from 1949 to 1968, and his time as a mission administrator at the U. S. headquarters of MAF from 1968 until his death in 1971. Diaries document Hatcher's military service and education at Wheaton College; correspondence includes love letters between Hatcher and his future wife, and letters with their six children when they were away...
Dates:
Created: 1941-1978; Majority of material found in 1943-1974
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 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
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- Subject: Children of missionaries X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Children of missionaries. 9
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 8
- Missionaries. 8
- Women missionaries. 7
- Bible -- Translating. 6
- Conversion. 6
- Evangelistic work. 6
- Missionaries -- Training of. 6
- Christianity and culture. 5
- Language in missionary work. 5
- Women -- Religious life. 5
- Bible. 4
- Catholic Church. 4
- Christian life. 4
- Church and state. 4
- Family. 4
- Indigenous church administration 4
- Missions. 4
- Tribes. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 4
- Women 4
- Bible colleges 3
- Christian education. 3
- College students -- Religious life. 3
- College students. 3
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. 3
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Linguistics 3
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- World War, 1939-1945. 3
- Aeronautics in missionary work. 2
- Animism. 2
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Mexico. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Education 2
- Evangelistic work -- Ecuador. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 2
- Intercultural communication. 2
- Linguists 2
- Linguists -- United States. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Mexico 2
- Missions -- Mexico. 2
- Missions -- Educational work. 2
- Missions -- Honduras. 2
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Missions -- Kenya. 2
- Missions -- Peru. 2
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
- Pentecostalism. 2
- Polygamy. 2
- Theological seminaries. 2
- Translating and interpreting. 2
- Worship. 2
- Aboriginal Australians. 1
- Animism -- Guatemala. 1
- Animism -- Mexico. 1
- Arminianism -- United States 1
- Arminianism. 1
- Authors and publishers. 1
- Authors and readers -- United States. 1
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Bible colleges -- Canada. 1
- Bible colleges -- United States. 1
- Bible colleges -- Vietnam. 1
- Boarding schools -- China. 1
- Boarding schools. 1
- Calvinism -- United States 1
- Calvinism. 1
- Catholic Church--Peru. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Ecuador. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Guatemala. 1
- Child rearing -- Religious aspects -- Christianity 1
- Children of missionaries -- China. 1
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 1
- Children of missionaries -- Indonesia 1
- Children of missionaries -- Kenya. 1
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 1
- China -- History. 1
- Chrau language. 1
- Christian education -- Canada. 1
- Christian education -- Ecuador. 1
- Christian education -- Kenya. 1
- Christian education -- Peru. 1
- Christian martyrs. 1
- Christianity and culture -- Kenya. 1
- Christmas. 1
- Church and state -- Guatemala. 1
- Church and state -- Indonesia. 1
- Church and state -- Kenya. 1
- Church and state -- Thailand. 1
- Church and state -- United States. 1
- Church and state -- Vietnam. 1
- Church growth -- Ecuador. 1
- Church growth. 1 ∧ less
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