Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956.
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 260 Oral History Interviews with Jeannette Thiessen
Collection
Identifier: CN 260
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Jeannette Louise Martig Thiessen (1927-2014) in which she discusses her family life in Illinois, favorite professors and her education at Wheaton College, nurses' training, and years in India (1952-1974) working with her husband under the sponsorship of the Mennonite Mission to the Lepers and American Leprosy Mission. Other topics discussed include: the Indian caste system, Indian politics, economics, literacy, hospital work with lepers, the Indian church,...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Collection 262 Oral History Interview with Raymond Buker Jr.
Collection
Identifier: CN 262
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Raymond Bates Buker in which he describes growing up in Burma as the child of missionaries, his education at Wheaton College, his decision to become a missionary under the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society, language study; evangelization, church planting, translation, medical missions and education activities in Pakistan, working with Muslims and the Sindhi, Bhils, and Marwari tribal people, 1954-1969. Other topics discussed include: the culture,...
Dates:
Created: 1983
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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- Caste. 2
- Children of missionaries. 2
- Church and state. 2
- Conversion. 2
- Culture shock. 2
- Indigenous church administration 2
- Intercultural communication. 2
- Language in missionary work. 2
- Missionaries -- Training of. 2
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 2
- Missions. 2
- Aeronautics -- Safety measures. 1
- Aeronautics in missionary work. 1
- Airplanes. -- Maintenance and repair. 1
- Athletes 1
- Athletes -- United States 1
- Athletes -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- Bhil (Indic people) 1
- Bible -- Translating. 1
- Bible colleges 1
- Bible colleges -- India. 1
- Bible. 1
- Boarding schools. 1
- Cancer -- Patients -- Religious life 1
- Caste -- India. 1
- Caste. -- Pakistan. 1
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 1
- Christian leadership. 1
- Christian life. 1
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- Pakistan. 1
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 1
- Christian literature. 1
- Christian martyrs -- Ecuador. 1
- Christian martyrs. 1
- Church and state -- India. 1
- Church and state -- Pakistan. 1
- Church growth -- India. 1
- Church growth. 1
- Church work with students -- United States. 1
- Church work with students. 1
- Church work with the working class 1
- Church work with the working class -- Pakistan. 1
- College students -- United States 1
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 1
- College students in missionary work. 1
- College students. 1
- Disaster relief 1
- Economic and social conditions 1
- Economic and social conditions -- Pakistan. 1
- Education 1
- Education -- India. 1
- Emergency management. 1
- Evangelistic work -- India. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Pakistan. 1
- Genocide -- Rwanda. 1
- Hinduism 1
- Hinduism -- Doctrines. 1
- Hinduism -- India. 1
- Huao Indians. 1
- Humanitarian assistance. 1
- India -- Description and travel. 1
- India -- History -- 1947- 1
- India -- History. 1
- India -- Social life and customs. 1
- Indigenous church administration -- India. 1
- Indigenous church administration -- Pakistan. 1
- Intercultural communication -- India. 1
- Intercultural communication -- Pakistan. 1
- Interdenominational cooperation. 1
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 1
- Leprosy -- India. 1
- Leprosy. 1
- Mapuche Indians. 1
- Marriage. 1
- Marwaris. 1
- Medical care 1
- Medical care -- India. 1
- Medical education 1
- Medical education -- United States. 1
- Mennonites 1
- Mennonites -- Missions. 1
- Missions -- Africa. 1
- Missions -- Asia. 1
- Missions -- Burma. 1
- Missions -- Caribbean Area. 1
- Missions -- Central America. 1
- Missions -- Educational work. 1
- Missions -- Europe, Eastern. 1
- Missions -- Finance. 1
- Missions -- India. 1
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 1
- Missions -- Oceania. 1
- Missions -- Pakistan. 1
- Missions -- Public relations. 1
- Missions -- South America. 1
- Missions -- Southeast Asia. 1 ∧ less
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