United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
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Found in 2 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 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: Women -- Religious life. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Bulu (African people) 1
- Cameroon. 1
- Cameroon. -- Politics and government. 1
- Children of missionaries. 1
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 1
- China -- History. 1
- Christian life. 1
- Church and social problems -- China. 1
- Church and social problems. 1
- Church and state -- Cameroon. 1
- Church and state. 1
- Communism -- China. 1
- Communism. 1
- Conversion. 1
- Cooperative societies 1
- Cooperative societies -- China. 1
- Drug addictions 1
- Drug addictions -- China. 1
- Drug traffic 1
- Drug traffic -- China. 1
- Education 1
- Education -- Cameroon. 1
- Evangelistic work -- China. 1
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 1
- Evangelistic work. 1
- Family. 1
- Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) 1
- Indigenous church administration -- Cameroon. 1
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 1
- Language in missionary work. 1
- Leprosy -- China. 1
- Leprosy. 1
- Medical care -- Cameroon. 1
- Medical care -- China. 1
- Missionaries -- Training of. 1
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 1
- Missions -- Cameroon. 1
- Missions -- China. 1
- Missions, Medical -- China. 1
- Missions, Medical. 1
- Muslims -- Cameroon. 1
- Muslims. 1
- Opium trade 1
- Opium trade -- China. 1
- Polygamy. 1
- Presbyterian Church -- Missions. 1
- Presbyterian Church -- Missions -- Cameroon. 1
- Presbyterian Church. 1
- Rural missions -- China. 1
- Rural missions. 1
- Sex role. 1
- Smallpox 1
- Smallpox -- China. 1
- Tai (Southeast Asian people) 1
- Tribes -- China. 1
- Tribes. 1
- United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. -- Missions. 1
- Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975. 1
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 1 ∧ less
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