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Wycliffe Bible Translators.

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Found in 7 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 302 Oral History Interview with David L. Farah

 Collection
Identifier: CN 302
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with David Livingstone Farah, in which he discusses his upbringing, education at Wheaton College, work as an administrator with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Peru and Bolivia, and relationships with other religious bodies, national groups and governments. Other topics include the 1950 revival at Wheaton College; Wycliffe jungle training in Mexico; the Catholic Church in Bolivia and the prevalence of syncretism; differences between Peru and Bolivia; description of...
Dates: Created: 1985

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 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 377 Papers of Elias Hatcher

 Collection
Identifier: CN 377
Scope and Contents Correspondence, audio tapes, photographs, diaries, and periodicals documenting the career of Elias Hatcher as a pilot for Mission Aviation Fellowship in Mexico from 1949 to 1968, and his time as a mission administrator at the U. S. headquarters of MAF from 1968 until his death in 1971. Diaries document Hatcher's military service and education at Wheaton College; correspondence includes love letters between Hatcher and his future wife, and letters with their six children when they were away...
Dates: Created: 1941-1978; Majority of material found in 1943-1974

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

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  • Subject: World War, 1939-1945. X

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Subject
Evangelistic work. 5
Missionaries -- Training of. 5
Animism. 4
Bible -- Translating. 4
Bible. 4
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Catholic Church. 4
Christianity and culture. 4
Conversion. 4
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
Children of missionaries. 3
Christian education. 3
Church and state. 3
Fund raising. 3
Language in missionary work. 3
Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 3
Missions -- Finance. 3
Tribes. 3
Aeronautics in missionary work. 2
Catholic Church. -- Mexico. 2
Christian leadership. 2
Christian life. 2
Christian martyrs. 2
College students in missionary work. 2
Indigenous church administration 2
Intercultural communication. 2
Linguistics 2
Marriage. 2
Medical care 2
Mexico 2
Missions -- Mexico. 2
Missions -- Honduras. 2
Pentecostalism. 2
Religious institutions. 2
Revivals -- Wheaton. 2
Revivals. 2
Sunday schools. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 2
Women 2
Women -- Religious life. 2
Women missionaries. 2
Worship. 2
Aboriginal Australians. 1
Animism -- Bolivia. 1
Animism -- Guatemala. 1
Animism -- Mexico. 1
Animism -- Sudan. 1
Arminianism -- United States 1
Arminianism. 1
Belief and doubt. 1
Biarritz (France) 1
Bible -- Publication and distribution. 1
Bible colleges 1
Bible colleges -- Canada. 1
Boarding schools -- China. 1
Boarding schools. 1
Bolivia -- Religion. 1
Bolivia. 1
Bolivia. -- Politics and government. 1
Calvinism -- United States 1
Calvinism. 1
Catholic Church -- Bolivia. 1
Catholic Church. -- Guatemala. 1
Children of missionaries -- China. 1
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 1
China -- History. 1
Christian education -- Canada. 1
Christian education -- Guatemala. 1
Christian education -- United States. 1
Christian martyrs -- Ecuador. 1
Christian martyrs -- Sudan. 1
Christianity and culture -- Bolivia. 1
Christianity and culture -- United States. 1
Christianity and other religions. 1
Christianity and politics -- Bolivia. 1
Christianity and politics. 1
Christmas. 1
Church and state -- Bolivia. 1
Church and state -- Sudan. 1
Church and state -- United States. 1
Church work with students. 1
Church work with women -- Sudan. 1
Church work with women. 1
Cold War. 1
Communication in organizations -- United States 1
Communication in organizations. 1
Communism. 1
Community development -- Bolivia. 1
Community development. 1
Conversion -- Personal narratives. 1
Courtship -- Sudan. 1
Courtship. 1
Cults. 1
Culture shock. 1
Death. 1
Education 1
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