Wycliffe Bible Translators.
Organization
Found in 6 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 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 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 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
Filtered By
- Subject: Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Evangelistic work. 5
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 5
- Missionaries. 5
- Bible. 4
- Catholic Church. 4
- Children of missionaries. 4
- Christianity and culture. 4
- Church and state. 4
- Indigenous church administration 4
- Tribes. 4
- Bible -- Translating. 3
- Christian education. 3
- Conversion. 3
- Education 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Family. 3
- Language in missionary work. 3
- Linguistics 3
- Linguists 3
- Linguists -- United States. 3
- Medical care 3
- Missionaries -- Training of. 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- Missions, Medical. 3
- Women missionaries. 3
- Animism -- Guatemala. 2
- Animism. 2
- Bible colleges 2
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
- Catholic Church. -- Guatemala. 2
- Christian leadership. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Church growth. 2
- Education -- Guatemala. 2
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Guatemala. 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 -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missions -- Educational work. 2
- Missions -- Guatemala. 2
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Missions, Medical -- Guatemala. 2
- Missions. 2
- Pentecostalism. 2
- Race relations. 2
- Religious institutions. 2
- Tribes -- Guatemala. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 2
- Women 2
- Women -- Religious life. 2
- World War, 1939-1945. 2
- Worship (Christian) 2
- Aeronautics in missionary work. 1
- Arminianism -- United States 1
- Arminianism. 1
- Baptism. 1
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Bible -- Inspiration. 1
- Bible colleges -- United States. 1
- Bible colleges -- Vietnam. 1
- Calvinism -- United States 1
- Calvinism. 1
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 1
- Catholic Church--Peru. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Ecuador. 1
- Catholic Church. -- Missions -- Niger. 1
- Chrau language. 1
- Christian education -- Ecuador. 1
- Christian education -- Guatemala. 1
- Christian education -- Niger. 1
- Christian education -- Peru. 1
- Christian martyrs. 1
- Church and state -- Guatemala. 1
- Church and state -- Niger. 1
- Church and state -- Nigeria. 1
- Church and state -- Thailand. 1
- Church and state -- United States. 1
- Church and state -- Vietnam. 1
- Church growth -- Ecuador. 1
- Church growth -- Niger. 1
- Church growth -- Nigeria. 1
- Church work with women -- Niger. 1
- Church work with women. 1
- Clergy 1
- Clergy -- Training of 1 ∧ less
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