Wycliffe Bible Translators.
Organization
Found in 10 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 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 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 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: Tribes X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Tribes. 9
- Evangelistic work. 8
- Missionaries -- Training of. 8
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 8
- Missionaries. 8
- Bible -- Translating. 7
- Bible. 7
- Indigenous church administration 7
- Church and state. 6
- Conversion. 6
- Language in missionary work. 6
- Women -- Religious life. 6
- Animism. 5
- Catholic Church. 5
- Women 5
- Women missionaries. 5
- Bible colleges 4
- Children of missionaries. 4
- Christian education. 4
- Christian life. 4
- Christianity and culture. 4
- Education 4
- Linguistics 4
- Medical care 4
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 4
- Christian leadership. 3
- Family. 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Great Britain 3
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 3
- Linguists 3
- Linguists -- United States. 3
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
- Missions -- Educational work. 3
- Missions, Medical. 3
- Religious institutions. 3
- World War, 1939-1945. 3
- Animism -- Guatemala. 2
- Baptism. 2
- Belief and doubt. 2
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Guatemala. 2
- Christian martyrs. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. 2
- Divorce. 2
- Education -- Guatemala. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Guatemala. 2
- Family -- United States. 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
- Indigenous church administration -- Guatemala. 2
- Ixil Indians -- Missions. 2
- Ixil Indians -- Religion. 2
- Ixil Indians. 2
- Linguistics -- Guatemala. 2
- Literacy 2
- Literacy -- Guatemala. 2
- Medical care -- Guatemala. 2
- Missionaries' spouses. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missions -- Finance. 2
- Missions -- Guatemala. 2
- Missions -- Philippines. 2
- Missions to Muslims. 2
- Missions, Medical -- Guatemala. 2
- Missions. 2
- Muslims. 2
- Nationalism. 2
- Organizational change. 2
- Pentecostalism. 2
- Race relations. 2
- Rural missions. 2
- Theological seminaries. 2
- Translating and interpreting. 2
- Tribes -- Guatemala. 2
- Worship (Christian) 2
- Aboriginal Australians. 1
- Aeronautics in missionary work. 1
- African American missionaries. 1
- African Americans -- Religious life. 1
- African Americans -- Social conditions. 1
- African Americans. 1
- Alcoholics. 1
- Alcoholism -- United States 1
- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Race relations. 1
- Animism -- Mexico. 1
- Animism -- Philippines. 1
- Animism -- Sudan. 1
- Arctic voice (Periodical) 1
- Bible -- Inspiration. 1 ∧ less
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