United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 286 Oral History Interview with Marilyn J. Suttie
Collection
Identifier: CN 286
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Marilyn Joy Suttie in which she describes her work as a missionary in Cameroon with the United Presbyterian Ecumenical Mission. Topics discussed include: Suttie's childhood in China, education at Wheaton College, and short-term missionary work, mainly teaching missionary children in Cameroon. Also includes information on the Cameroon church, polygamy, Muslims in Cameroon, and medical care, and other political, social, and religious issues in Africa. The time...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Collection 298 Papers of Howard E. Thomas
Collection
Identifier: CN 298
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Howard E. Thomas in which he describes his family background, Christian life and growth, education at Stony Brook School and Wheaton College, missionary work with the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions among lepers of the Tai-Lu people along the Burmese border in southwestern China, internment by the Japanese in Thailand, contextualization of the gospel, expulsion from the area by the Chinese army involved in opium trade. Description of Stony Brook School...
Dates:
Created: 1946-1985
Collection 299 Oral History Interview with Ruth M. Thomas
Collection
Identifier: CN 299
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Ruth M. Thomas about her family and religious background, conversion, recollections of Billy Sunday's campaign in Scranton, PA in 1914, her education at Wheaton College, call to foreign missions, work as a missionary nurse with the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions in a rehabilitation program of a leper colony in southwestern China along the Burmese border among the Tai-Lu people, language study, worship and use of music, an anti-opium campaign, and a...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Filtered By
- Subject: Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- China -- History. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Church and social problems -- China. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Conversion. 2
- Drug traffic 2
- Drug traffic -- China. 2
- Evangelistic work -- China. 2
- Evangelistic work. 2
- Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) 2
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
- Language in missionary work. 2
- Leprosy -- China. 2
- Leprosy. 2
- Medical care -- China. 2
- Missions -- China. 2
- Missions, Medical -- China. 2
- Missions, Medical. 2
- Opium trade 2
- Opium trade -- China. 2
- Rural missions -- China. 2
- Rural missions. 2
- Tai (Southeast Asian people) 2
- Tribes -- China. 2
- Tribes. 2
- United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. -- Missions. 2
- Women 2
- Women -- Religious life. 2
- Women missionaries. 2
- Bulu (African people) 1
- Cameroon. 1
- Cameroon. -- Politics and government. 1
- Children of missionaries. 1
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 1
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 1
- Church and state -- Cameroon. 1
- Church and state. 1
- Communism -- China. 1
- Communism. 1
- Cooperative societies 1
- Cooperative societies -- China. 1
- Drug addictions 1
- Drug addictions -- China. 1
- Education 1
- Education -- Cameroon. 1
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 1
- Family. 1
- Indigenous church administration -- Cameroon. 1
- Medical care -- Cameroon. 1
- Missionaries -- Training of. 1
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 1
- Missions -- Cameroon. 1
- Missions to Buddhists -- China. 1
- Missions to Buddhists. 1
- Modernist-fundamentalist controversy. 1
- Muslims -- Cameroon. 1
- Muslims. 1
- Polygamy. 1
- Presbyterian Church -- Missions. 1
- Presbyterian Church -- Missions -- Cameroon. 1
- Presbyterian Church. 1
- Sex role. 1
- Smallpox 1
- Smallpox -- China. 1
- Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975. 1
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 1
- World War, 1939-1945. 1 ∧ less
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