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Mellis, Charles.

 Person

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

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 363 Papers of Ruth M. Mellis

 Collection
Identifier: CN 363
Scope and Contents Correspondence, prayer letters, clippings, photographs, oral history interviews and audio tapes of missionary conference relating to the missionary career of Ruth M. Mellis. Materials document her work among orphans and students in Greece, the Greek Bible Institute, the Greek language, and Greater Europe Mission; oral history interviews describe her childhood, attendance at Wheaton College, work with Near East Relief in Siros, teaching public schools in the St. Louis area, teaching at the...
Dates: Created: 1928-1987

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

Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA) records.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 5
Identifier: 1994-031
Dates: 1960-1991

Mission Aviation Fellowship Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 136
Scope and Contents Office files of MAF, a mission agency that provided transportation, radio contact and other support to missions working in remote areas, as well as some services to non-mission agencies. Materials, including correspondence, minutes, reports, prayer letters, personnel files, and budgets, that document the administration and activities of MAF, especially the regional offices in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, the Development division (extensive individual prayer letters from entire...
Dates: Created: 1944-2006

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Type
Collection 4
Unprocessed Material 1
 
Subject
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 4
Missionaries. 4
Aeronautics in missionary work. 3
Evangelistic work. 3
Missionaries -- Training of. 3
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World War, 1939-1945. 3
Children of missionaries. 2
Church and state. 2
Conversion. 2
Evangelicalism. 2
Intercultural communication. 2
Interdenominational cooperation. 2
Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
Missions -- Finance. 2
Missions -- Honduras. 2
Missions. 2
Radio in missionary work. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 2
Aeronautics -- Safety measures. 1
Airplanes. -- Maintenance and repair. 1
Armenians. 1
Arminianism -- United States 1
Arminianism. 1
Bible colleges 1
Bible colleges -- Greece. 1
Calvinism -- United States 1
Calvinism. 1
Cancer -- Patients -- Religious life 1
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 1
Catholic Church. 1
Catholic Church. -- Mexico. 1
Christian education -- Greece. 1
Christian education -- United States. 1
Christian education. 1
Christian martyrs -- Ecuador. 1
Christian martyrs. 1
Christianity and culture. 1
Church and social problems. 1
Church and state -- Greece. 1
Church and state -- United States. 1
Church work with refugees -- Greece. 1
Church work with refugees. 1
College students -- Religious life. 1
College students. 1
Communication in organizations -- United States 1
Communication in organizations. 1
Death. 1
Depressions 1
Depressions -- 1929 1
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States. 1
Disaster relief 1
Education 1
Education -- Ethiopia. 1
Education -- Greece. 1
Education -- United States. 1
Education, Higher 1
Education, Higher -- United States. 1
Emergency management. 1
English language 1
English language -- Foreign speakers. 1
Ethiopia 1
Ethiopia -- Description and travel. 1
Ethiopia -- History 1
Ethiopia -- History -- 1889-1974. 1
Ethiopia -- Religion. 1
Ethiopia -- Social life and customs. 1
Evangelicalism -- Greece. 1
Evangelicalism -- United States. 1
Evangelistic work -- Greece. 1
Evangelistic work -- Honduras. 1
Evangelistic work -- United States. 1
Family. 1
Genocide -- Rwanda. 1
Greece 1
Greece -- History 1
Greece -- History -- 1917-1944. 1
Greece -- Social life and customs. 1
Huao Indians. 1
Humanitarian assistance. 1
International relief -- Greece. 1
International relief. 1
Interpersonal conflict. 1
Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936. 1
Language in missionary work. 1
Liberalism (Religion) 1
Mapuche Indians. 1
Mass media in missionary work. 1
Mexico 1
Mexico -- Description and travel. 1
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 1
Missionaries -- Salaries, etc. 1
Missions -- Mexico. 1
Missions -- Africa. 1
Missions -- Asia. 1
Missions -- Caribbean Area. 1
Missions -- Central America. 1
Missions -- Congresses. 1
Missions -- Educational work. 1
Missions -- Ethiopia. 1
Missions -- Europe, Eastern. 1
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