Wycliffe Bible Translators.
Organization
Found in 8 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 277 Ephemera of Jim Elliot
Collection
Identifier: CN 277
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, tapes of sermons and audio letters, journals, notebooks, annotated Bibles, school records, poems, clippings, drawings, and other materials describing Elliot's courtship of his wife Elisabeth, his spiritual preparation for the mission field, early days of his work in Ecuador, and events leading up to his death and those of four other missionaries at the hands of the Waorani (called "Auca" by their enemies) people. Microfilm edition of materials available for researcher use.
Dates:
Created: 1941-1959; Majority of material found within 1947-1956
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 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 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 670 Papers of Kathryn Deering
Collection
Identifier: CN 670
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts, newsletters, photos, digital copies of journals, and other materials relating to the life and ministry of Elisabeth Elliot as they were gathered by Kathryn Deering, employee of Servant Publications who edited Elliot’s newsletter and several of her books.
Dates:
Created: 1979-2012
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- Subject: Christian life. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 7
- Missionaries. 7
- Christianity and culture. 6
- Conversion. 6
- Evangelistic work. 6
- Missionaries -- Training of. 6
- Women 6
- Women -- Religious life. 6
- Women missionaries. 6
- Bible -- Translating. 5
- Bible. 5
- Indigenous church administration 5
- Language in missionary work. 5
- Animism. 4
- Children of missionaries. 4
- Church and state. 4
- Marriage. 4
- Tribes. 4
- Bible colleges 3
- Catholic Church. 3
- Christian education. 3
- College students -- Religious life. 3
- College students. 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Family. 3
- Bible colleges -- United States. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Christian martyrs. 2
- Courtship. 2
- Death. 2
- Divorce -- Christianity. 2
- Divorce. 2
- Ecuador 2
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Ecuador. 2
- Family -- United States. 2
- Fund raising. 2
- Huao Indians. 2
- Linguistics 2
- Medical care 2
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missions -- Ecuador. 2
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Missions -- Rural work. 2
- Missions. 2
- Prayer. 2
- Religious institutions. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
- World War, 1939-1945. 2
- Aboriginal Australians. 1
- Abortion 1
- Abortion -- Religious aspects. 1
- Adultery. 1
- Aeronautics in missionary work. 1
- African American missionaries. 1
- African Americans -- Religious life. 1
- African Americans -- Social conditions. 1
- African Americans. 1
- Aging. 1
- Alcoholism -- United States 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Race relations. 1
- Animism -- Guatemala. 1
- Animism -- Mexico. 1
- Animism -- Philippines. 1
- Animism -- Sudan. 1
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Bible colleges -- Canada. 1
- Boarding schools -- China. 1
- Boarding schools. 1
- Capital punishment -- Christianity. 1
- Capital punishment. 1
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 1
- Catholic Church--Peru. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Ecuador. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Guatemala. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Mexico. 1
- Chester (Ill.) 1
- Child abuse -- United States. 1
- Child abuse. 1
- Children of missionaries -- China. 1
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 1
- China -- History. 1
- Christian education -- Canada. 1
- Christian education -- Ecuador. 1
- Christian education -- Kenya. 1
- Christian education -- Peru. 1
- Christian martyrs -- Ecuador. 1
- Christian martyrs -- Sudan. 1
- Christianity and culture -- Kenya. 1
- Christianity and other religions. 1
- Christmas. 1
- Church and state -- Guatemala. 1
- Church and state -- Kenya. 1
- Church and state -- Philippines. 1
- Church and state -- Sudan. 1
- Church growth -- Ecuador. 1
- Church growth. 1 ∧ less
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