Deyneka, Anita.

Person

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Biographical Statement

Anita Marson Deyneka, the daughter of Frank and Ada Marson, was born July 7, 1943 in Seattle, Washington and grew up in an isolated rural community in the Cascade Mountains of Washington. In 1966 she received a bachelor of arts degree (summa cum laude) from Seattle Pacific University and a masters degree from Mundelein College in 1982.

After high school Deyneka spent summers as a typist for the U.S. Foreign Service. Her career in missions began in radio and television in Taipei, Taiwan in 1966. After teaching English in Washington state for two years she began her long relationship with Slavic Gospel Association, and later Peter Deyneka Russian Ministries (founded in 1991), in 1968.

Together with her, now deceased husband Peter, she has written seven books, numerous articles in magazines, newspapers and other periodicals relating to missions, including Tanya and the Underground (1973), Alexi’s Secret Mission (1975), Christians in the Shadow of the Kremlin (1974) and A Song in Siberia (1977).

Anita Deyneka has spoken in many churches and at other events such as Inter Varsity Urbana, and has been interviewed on Christian radio and television programs such as Focus on the Family, Chapel of the Air, and BBC Book Review. During the Soviet years she taught occasional courses in the area of missions in the USSR at Wheaton Graduate School, Fuller Seminary, and Biola.

Citation:

Author: Wheaton College Archives & Special Collections staff

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Anita and Peter Deyneka, Jr. Papers

Collection — Container: Books

Identifier: SC-048

Scope and Contents The Anita and Peter Deyneka, Jr. Papers comprise eleven series: Biography, Published Material, Unpublished Material, Correspondence/Faxes, Conference, Media, Speeches/Lectures, Ministries, Secondary, WRF, and Memorabilia. The bulk of the collection is found in the latter portions of the series with Ministries, Secondary and WRF occupying three-quarters of the collection. These series document the activities of the Deyneka's various internal and external activities. Ministries includes...

Dates: Created: 1951-2017; Other: Majority of material found in 1984-2000; Other: Date acquired: 1992

Found in: Special Collections / Anita and Peter Deyneka, Jr. Papers

Collection 237 Records of the Slavic Gospel Association

Collection

Identifier: CN 237

Scope and Contents Correspondence, minutes, prayer letters, audio tapes, films, and other materials documenting the work of the Slavic Gospel Association among Slavic peoples, primarily Russians. Records deal with the early career of Peter Deyneka Sr.; work of individual missionaries; long range planning for the mission; media ministry (radio, film, both before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union video, literature); and evangelism in Europe, North America and South America. Collection contains...

Dates: Created: 1922-1991

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 237 Records of the Slavic Gospel Association

Collection 660 Records of the CoMission and CoMission II

Collection

Identifier: CN 660

Scope and Contents Correspondence, memos, minutes, reports, transcripts, schedules, manuals, policy statements, magazine and newspaper clippings, curricula, audio recordings, videos, photographs, slides and other materials documenting the work of the Commission. This was an alliance of over eighty American Protestant ministries, churches and business (almost all Evangelical) that, in agreement with the Russia government, entered the country on a five year contract to train Russian educators to teach Christian...

Dates: 1989-1998; Majority of material found in 1992-1995

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 660 Records of the CoMission and CoMission II

Donn Ziebell papers.

Unprocessed Material — Box: 3

Identifier: 2008-012

Dates: 1981-2007

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

MSS | Deyneka Letterhead

Unprocessed Material

Identifier: 2010-1028

Found in: Special Collections

Slavic Gospel Association (SGA) records.

Unprocessed Material — Box: 34

Identifier: 2008-027

Dates: 1933-2002