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Christian Medical Society.

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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Collection 511 Oral History Interviews with E.J. Cummins

 Collection
Identifier: CN 511
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Dr. Erwin Jephthah Cummins, Jr. (1918-1997), SIM International medical missionary to Nigeria from 1952 to 1983. Topics discussed include Cummins's Christian background and education; early medical training and practice in Chicago, involvement in Christian Medical and Dental Society; transition to the mission field in Nigeria; medical work building and directing leprosaria in the Nigerian interior; indigenous church administration; Evangelical Church of West...
Dates: Created: 1995

Collection 672 Oral History Interviews with Jeanne Blumhagen.

 Collection
Identifier: CN 672
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Jeanne Bourland Blumhagen in which she describes her family background; effects of the Great Depression; conversion and spiritual development; education at Whitworth University, University of Chicago, and University of Illinois; World War II; medical missionary service in Afghanistan with the American Embassy in Kabul, Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship (BMMF), Medical Assistance Program (MAP), and later Interserve, and serving on the Wheaton College Board...
Dates: 2013-2017

David H. Adeney Papers.

 Collection
Identifier: CN 393
Brief Description Adeney’s correspondence, writings (articles, books), lecture and presentation manuscripts, subject files (especially files on various China-related topics) he compiled from many sources, notebooks and loose notes, a photo album, photographs and slides, and two oral history interviews. Together these span his career as a missionary in China and Southeast Asia, staff with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in the United States, leader with International Fellowship of Evangelical Students,...
Dates: Created: 1911-1994

Harold P. Adolph Oral History Interviews

 Collection
Identifier: CN 169
Scope and Contents Oral History Interview with Harold Paul Adolph, in which he discusses his boyhood in China as the son of missionaries with China Inland Mission, conditions in China, his education at Wheaton College, medical education at the University of Pennsylvania, decision to become a missionary, and his ministry in Ethiopia as a medical missionary in African with Sudan Interior Mission; American missions in Ethiopia; family life on the mission field, and work with the Christian Medical Society. The...
Dates: Created: 1981

Paul and Catharine Gieser Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 088
Scope and Contents

Oral history interview with Kenneth Gieser and letters reporting to the Southern Presbyterian Mission Board in Nashville, TN on the Gieser’s work in China, written between October 19, 1934, and November 1, 1936. Also contains audio tapes and transcripts of autobiographical statements.

Dates: Created: 1934-1979

Robert and Winifred Hockman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 200
Scope and Contents

Collection documenting the medical missionary service of Robert and Winnifred Hockman with the United Presbyterian Church in Ethiopia, including correspondence written by Hockmans to Robert Hockman’s parents, photographs, a scrapbook about the life and death of Robert Hockman, and oral history interviews with Winifred Hockman. The collection contains extensive material on the Italo-Ethiopian War and the work of the International Red Cross.

Dates: Created: 1933-1982

Additional filters:

Subject
Children of missionaries. 4
Conversion -- Christianity. 4
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 4
World War, 1939-1945. 4
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 3
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Evangelicalism. 3
Evangelistic work -- China. 3
Missions -- China. 3
Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 3
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 2
Christian martyrs -- China. 2
Church and social problems -- China. 2
Church and state -- China. 2
College students in missionary work. 2
Communism -- China. 2
Culture shock. 2
Evangelicalism -- United States. 2
Evangelistic work -- Ethiopia. 2
Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
Language in missionary work. 2
Medical care -- China. 2
Medical care -- Ethiopia. 2
Missionaries -- Training of. 2
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
Missionaries' spouses. 2
Missions -- Ethiopia. 2
Missions, Medical -- China. 2
Missions, Medical -- Ethiopia. 2
Presbyterian Church -- Missions. 2
Women missionaries. 2
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) 1
Afghanistan -- Description and travel. 1
Afghanistan -- History -- Soviet occupation -- 1979-1989. 1
Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 1973-1989. 1
Afghanistan -- Social life and customs. 1
Amharic language. 1
Animism -- Ethiopia. 1
Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
Children -- Religious life. 1
China -- Church history -- 20th century. 1
China -- Church history. 1
China -- Description and travel. 1
China -- Economic conditions. 1
China -- History -- 1949- 1
China -- History -- 1976-2002. 1
China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976. 1
China -- History -- Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989. 1
China -- Manners and customs. 1
China -- Politics and government. 1
China -- Religion. 1
China -- Social life and customs. 1
Chinese -- Missions. 1
Chinese diaspora. 1
Chinese language. 1
Chinese students. 1
Christian education -- Nigeria. 1
Christian education -- United States. 1
Christian education. 1
Christian leadership. 1
Christian life. 1
Christianity and other religions. 1
Church and social problems -- United States. 1
Church and social problems. 1
Church and state -- Ethiopia. 1
Church work with foreign students. 1
Church work with prisoners -- China. 1
Church work with refugees -- China. 1
Church work with refugees. 1
Church work with students -- China. 1
Church work with students -- Hong Kong (China) 1
Church work with students -- Japan. 1
Church work with students -- Malaysia. 1
Church work with students -- Philippines. 1
Church work with students -- United States. 1
Church work with students -- Vietnam. 1
Church work with students. 1
College students -- Religious life. 1
College students -- United States -- Religious life. 1
College students -- United States. 1
College students. 1
Communism -- Ethiopia. 1
Communism. 1
Conversion -- Personal narratives. -- Christianity. 1
Decolonization -- Nigeria. 1
Decolonization. 1
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States. 1
Discipling (Christianity) 1
Education, Higher -- United States. 1
Epidemics -- China. 1
Ethiopia -- Description and travel. 1
Ethiopia -- History -- Revolution, 1974. 1
Ethiopia -- History. 1
Ethiopia -- Politics and government. 1
Ethiopia -- Religion. 1
Evangelicalism -- Great Britain. 1
Evangelistic work -- England. 1
Evangelistic work -- Korea. 1
Evangelistic work -- Study and teaching. 1
Festivals -- China. 1
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