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Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Collection 055 Papers of Otto F. Schoerner

 Collection
Identifier: CN 055
Scope and Contents

Papers of Otto Frederick Schoerner a Wheaton College alumnus and missionary with China Inland Mission in Sinkiang, Honan, and Kangsu Provinces of China from 1931-1951. Collection includes an oral history interview, correspondence, autobiography, and photographs.

Dates: Created: 1949-2006

Collection 164 Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Small

 Collection
Identifier: CN 164
Scope and Contents

Oral history interview with Elizabeth Stair Small in which she describes her missionary experiences in China between the earliest communist revolutions; includes customs, evangelizing methods, assistance of Chinese Christians in areas of central China; post-war pastoring in the U.S. The time period covered by the interviews is 1904-1980.

Elizabeth Small was interviewed by Robert Shuster on October 28, 1980 at the Billy Graham Center Archives at Wheaton College.

Dates: Created: 1980

Collection 171 Papers of Albert and Mary Lee Bobby

 Collection
Identifier: CN 171
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews and personal papers of Albert and Mary Lee Bobby, missionaries in Lisbon and Santiago do Cacem, Portugal, under The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM). Collection includes interviews, articles, correspondence, prayer letters, manuscript notes, and other material from the Bobbys about their mission work, including evangelism and radio broadcasting. The correspondence also includes information on various theological issues and American Christian leaders. The oral...
Dates: Created: 1980-1982

Collection 177 Papers of Zoe Anne Alford

 Collection
Identifier: CN 177
Scope and Contents This collection contains curriculum materials and lecture notes, manuscripts of messages, correspondence, prayer letters, financial records, clippings, maps, promotional materials, minutes, photographs, newsletters, oral history interview, documenting Zoe Anne Alford's work in India and among Navajo Indians in New Mexico. The collection provides a broad overview of her education, preparation and missionary career, extending from her grammar school education into her retirement. It provides...
Dates: Created: 1925-1983

Collection 230 Oral History Interview with John A. Gration

 Collection
Identifier: CN 230
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with John Alexander Gration (1926-2012). Topics discussed include: Gration's Christian activities in high school and the U.S. Navy, education at Moody Bible Institute, Gordon College, and Wheaton College; his spiritual growth and call to become a missionary, his marriage, and his first impressions of and missionary experiences with Africa Inland mission in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo), Christianity and culture, animism, superstition, AIM...
Dates: Created: 1982

Collection 247 Oral History Interview with Louis E. Knowlton

 Collection
Identifier: CN 247
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Louis E. Knowlton in which he discusses his career in evangelistic work and radio technology in Brazil for the Brazilian Evangelistic Association, Inc. Topics discussed include Knowlton's early life, education, service as an Army chaplain's assistant, decision to go into technological ministry, work at WMBI and in Brazil, efforts as a street evangelist and beginnings of music studio, Brazilian churches, church-state relations, ethnic groups and cults, the use of...
Dates: Created: 1982

Collection 249 Papers of Myron and Elizabeth Harrison

 Collection
Identifier: CN 249
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews, prayer letters, and photographs related to the missionary service of Myron and Elizabeth Harrison with Overseas Missionary Fellowship in the Philippines from 1967-1990.Series: Audio TapesOne oral history interview each with Myron and Elizabeth Harrison. Topics discussed in the interviews include missionary call, appointment and assignments in the Philippines with Overseas Missionary Fellowship, family life, the...
Dates: Created: 1967-1993

Collection 255 Oral History Interview of Helen Frame

 Collection
Identifier: CN 255
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Helen Nowack Frame (1908-1999) in which she discusses her childdhood growing up in China, decision to become a missionary for Overseas Missionary Fellowship, education at Wheaton College, years of service in China, culture and political events in China; leaving China in 1951 with her husband Raymond and their children and resettlement in the Philippines, teaching at Faith Academy, development of the Bible Institute, return and activities in Wheaton. The time...
Dates: Created: 1983

Collection 266 Oral History Interview with Ruth Sundquist

 Collection
Identifier: CN 266
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Ruth Sundquist in which she describes her education at Moody Bible Institute, decision to become a missionary, work first in Kentucky home missions as a Christian education worker with the Evangelical Free Church and then her missionary career in China and Hong Kong between 1947 and 1982 as an administrator for a Sunday School and orphanage. Other topics discussed include: language school in China, Chinese attitudes toward the Nationalists, Communists, Americans...
Dates: Created: 1984

Collection 272 Papers of Jennie Fitzwilliam

 Collection
Identifier: CN 272
Scope and Contents Letters with some translation, photographs, a Lisu translation of the New Testament, combined catechism and hymnbook in the Atsi Kachin language, slides, and four oral history interviews all related to Jennie Fitzwilliam's mission work with Overseas Missionary Fellowship (formerly China Inland Mission) among the Lisu and Kachin peoples in southern China along the Burmese border. Included are recollections of Fitzwilliam's husband, Francis, J.O. Fraser and the early history of missionary work...
Dates: Created: 1985

Collection 284 Oral History Interview with Gladys Wright

 Collection
Identifier: CN 284
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Gladys Lyle Wright (1902-1994), in which she discusses her work as a teacher in Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo). Topics discussed include: Wright's family background, education at Wheaton College and Moody Bible Institute, her work as a missionary in the Belgian Congo for the Africa Inland Mission, memories of the Congolese people and culture, and her experiences at Wheaton when she was on the staff of the College after retriring from the mission...
Dates: Created: 1984

Collection 417 Papers of Dick Springer

 Collection
Identifier: CN 417
Scope and Contents Oral history interview and one prayer letter relating to the ministry of Charles Oliver “Dick” Springer, missionary with Overseas Missionary Fellowship in China and Japan from 1937-1996.Series: Audio TapesOral history interview with Dick Springer in which he describes his family and their missionary interest and involvement, conversion, education (at Whitman College, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Moody Bible Institute), his involvement...
Dates: Created: 1937-1989

Collection 468 Oral History Interviews with Elizabeth C. Stough

 Collection
Identifier: CN 468
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Elizabeth Quackenbush Stough (1913-2009) in which she discusses her parents, childhood, education, conversion, attendance at Moody Bible Institute, call to be a missionary, joining Africa Inland Mission, travel to Africa, work in French Equatorial Africa, evangelistic field trips, her husband Paul Stough, her work among women in the Belgian Congo, the growth of the Africa Inland Church, the independence of the Congo, the Congolese civil war and Simba uprising,...
Dates: Created: 1992-1993

Collection 480 Oral History Interviews with Margaret L. Clapper

 Collection
Identifier: CN 480
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Margaret L. Clapper (1912-2005), missionary with Africa Inland Mission in Belgian Congo/Zaire from 1939-1980. Topics covered in two sessions include her youth, conversion, Bible school education at Moody Bible Institute, missionary work in central Africa, Belgian administration of the Congo, work among pygmies, Zaire politics and government, independence of the country in 1960 and the Simba rebellion, transition from mission to national authority, singleness,...
Dates: Created: 1993

Collection 543 Oral History Interviews with Larry Goldberg

 Collection
Identifier: CN 543
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Larry Goldberg, in which he decribes his childhood and youth in a traditional Jewish family, conversion, spiritual growth, education, evangelism among Chicago Jews, joining Operation Mobilization, evangelism in Israel and attempts to expel him from the country, evangelistic outreach in Austria, inter-personal conflict, Jewish perceptions and reactions to evangelism, evangelism methods, charismatic issues, divisive missionary couple, the church in Israel, Jews for...
Dates: Created: 1997

Institute for Advanced Christian Studies Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-241
Dates: Other: Date acquired: 03/04/2013

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Subject
Children of missionaries. 10
Conversion. 10
Missionaries -- Training of. 10
Indigenous church administration 9
Women 9
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Women -- Religious life. 9
Women missionaries. 9
Christianity and culture. 8
Animism. 6
China -- History. 6
Christian education. 6
Church and state. 6
Communism -- China. 6
Communism. 6
Evangelistic work -- China. 6
Missions -- China. 6
Missions -- Educational work. 6
Missions -- Finance. 6
Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 6
Tribes. 6
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 5
Christian life. 5
Education 5
Family. 5
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 5
Sex role. 5
Belgium. 4
Bible colleges 4
Bible. 4
Catholic Church. 4
Children of missionaries -- Education. 4
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 4
Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 4
Christian literature. 4
Church discipline. 4
Evangelistic work -- United States. 4
Missions, Medical. 4
Pentecostalism. 4
Rural missions. 4
Superstition. 4
World War, 1939-1945. 4
Belgium. -- Colonies 3
Belgium. -- Colonies -- Africa. 3
Boarding schools. 3
China -- Description and travel. 3
China -- History -- 1949- 3
Chinese language. 3
Christian education -- China. 3
Church work with children. 3
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 3
Culture shock. 3
Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
Evangelistic work -- Zaire. 3
Missionaries' spouses. 3
Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 3
Missions -- Zaire. 3
Missions. 3
Polygamy. 3
Sunday schools. 3
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 3
Animism -- Zaire. 2
Belgium. -- Administration. 2
Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
Bible -- Translating. 2
Bible colleges -- United States. 2
Bible colleges -- Zaire. 2
Boarding schools -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 2
Children. 2
China -- Religion. 2
China. 2
Chinese -- Missions. 2
Chinese. 2
Christian education -- United States. 2
Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
Church development, New. 2
Church growth. 2
Church work with families. 2
Church work with military personnel -- United States. 2
Church work with military personnel. 2
Church work with youth -- United States. 2
Church work with youth. 2
College students. 2
Correspondence schools and courses 2
Demoniac possession 2
Education -- Curricula. 2
Education -- Zaire. 2
Evangelicalism. 2
Evangelistic work -- Music. 2
Evangelistic work -- Philippines. 2
Exorcism. 2
Fund raising. 2
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
Great Britain -- Colonies. 2
Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
Interpersonal conflict. 2
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