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Wycliffe Bible Translators.

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Found in 12 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 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 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 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 471 Papers of W. Arthur Saunders

 Collection
Identifier: CN 471
Scope and Contents Oral history interview and a manuscript translated by W. Arthur Saunders, relating to Saunder’s missionary service in China with China Inland Mission and Overseas Missionary Fellowship from 1930 to 1987. The interview describes his childhood in England, emigration to New Zealand, training at the New Zealand Bible Institute, joining the China Inland Mission, going to China in 1930, evangelistic work in south Gansu province, the work of Chinese evangelists, worship services in Gansu churches,...
Dates: Created: 1992

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

Kenneth Fleming Papers.

 Collection
Identifier: CN 657
Scope and Contents Collection contains letters, articles, audio recordings, photographs, and other material collected by Kenneth Fleming relating to the death of five American missionaries in Ecuador in 1956, including his brother Peter Fleming, in Ecuador with the Plymouth Brethren mission agency Christian Missions In Many Lands. In particular, the papers document the story of Peter’s involvement in the so-called “Operation Auca” and his death, along with missionaries Jim Elliot, Ed McCully, Nate Saint and...
Dates: Created: 1946-2011

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Subject
Evangelistic work. 11
Indigenous church administration 11
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 11
Missionaries -- Training of. 10
Missionaries. 10
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Conversion. 8
Church and state. 7
Tribes. 7
Bible -- Translating. 6
Bible. 6
Christian education. 6
Christianity and culture. 6
Language in missionary work. 6
Animism. 5
Catholic Church. 5
Christian life. 5
Women 5
Women -- Religious life. 5
Children of missionaries. 4
Christian leadership. 4
Evangelicalism. 4
Medical care 4
Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 4
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 4
Women missionaries. 4
Baptism. 3
Bible colleges 3
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
Church growth. 3
Conversion -- Personal narratives. 3
Education 3
Evangelicalism -- United States. 3
Family. 3
Great Britain 3
Missionaries' spouses. 3
Missions -- Educational work. 3
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
Missions, Medical. 3
Pentecostalism. 3
Religious institutions. 3
Animism -- Guatemala. 2
Bible colleges -- United States. 2
Catholic Church. -- Guatemala. 2
Christian education -- Ecuador. 2
Christian martyrs. 2
Christmas. 2
Church work with women. 2
College students -- Religious life. 2
College students. 2
Culture shock. 2
Divorce. 2
Ecuador 2
Education -- Guatemala. 2
Evangelistic work -- Ecuador. 2
Evangelistic work -- Guatemala. 2
Evangelistic work -- Kenya. 2
Family -- United States. 2
Fund raising. 2
Fundamentalism. 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 -- Ecuador. 2
Indians of South America. 2
Indigenous church administration -- Ecuador. 2
Indigenous church administration -- Guatemala. 2
Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 2
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 2
Ixil Indians -- Missions. 2
Ixil Indians -- Religion. 2
Ixil Indians. 2
Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) 2
Linguistics 2
Linguistics -- Guatemala. 2
Linguists 2
Linguists -- United States. 2
Literacy 2
Literacy -- Guatemala. 2
Lord's Supper. 2
Marriage. 2
Medical care -- Guatemala. 2
Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
Missions -- Finance. 2
Missions -- Guatemala. 2
Missions -- Kenya. 2
Missions -- Rural work. 2
Missions to Muslims. 2
Missions, Medical -- Guatemala. 2
Missions. 2
Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
Muslims. 2
Nationalism. 2
Organizational change. 2
Persecution. 2
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