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 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 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 624 Ephemera of the ZamZam Incident
Collection
Identifier: CN 624
Scope and Contents
Diaries, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, oral history interviews, correspondence, photos, and other materials relating to the passengers, mainly American missionaries, who were aboard the ship Zamzam, sunk in the south Atlantic Ocean in 1941 by a German warship. Materials describe the sinking, the subsequent experiences of the passengers as German prisoners and the internment of some for the duration of the war, and reunions held in later years by the survivors and their families.
Dates:
Created: 1941-2012
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
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
Filtered By
- Subject: Women missionaries. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Bible -- Translating. 7
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 7
- Missionaries. 7
- Women -- Religious life. 7
- Children of missionaries. 6
- Christian life. 6
- Conversion. 6
- Language in missionary work. 6
- Women 6
- Bible. 5
- Christianity and culture. 5
- Evangelistic work. 5
- Missionaries -- Training of. 5
- Bible colleges 4
- Church and state. 4
- Family. 4
- Indigenous church administration 4
- Tribes. 4
- Animism. 3
- Catholic Church. 3
- Christian education. 3
- College students -- Religious life. 3
- College students. 3
- Conversion -- Personal narratives. 3
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 3
- Evangelicalism. 3
- Linguistics 3
- Marriage. 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- Missions. 3
- Translating and interpreting. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 3
- Bible colleges -- United States. 2
- Christian martyrs. 2
- Divorce -- Christianity. 2
- Divorce. 2
- Education 2
- Evangelistic work -- Ecuador. 2
- Family -- United States. 2
- Gateway to Joy (Radio program) 2
- Huao Indians. 2
- Linguists 2
- Linguists -- United States. 2
- Men -- Sexual behavior. 2
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
- Missions -- Ecuador. 2
- Missions -- Educational work. 2
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
- Missions -- Peru. 2
- Missions -- Philippines. 2
- Missions -- Rural work. 2
- Sex role -- United States. 2
- Suffering 2
- Women -- Sexual behavior. 2
- Women authors, American. 2
- World War, 1939-1945. 2
- Aboriginal Australians. 1
- Abortion 1
- Abortion -- Religious aspects. 1
- Adultery. 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
- Authors and publishers. 1
- Authors and readers -- United States. 1
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Biarritz (France) 1
- Bible colleges -- Canada. 1
- Bible colleges -- Vietnam. 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
- Child abuse -- United States. 1
- Child abuse. 1
- Child rearing -- Religious aspects -- Christianity 1
- Children of missionaries -- China. 1
- Children of missionaries -- Indonesia 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 leadership. 1
- Christian martyrs -- Ecuador. 1 ∧ less
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