Wheaton College (Ill.)
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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Collection 187 Papers of Eleanor R. Elliott
Collection
Identifier: CN 187
Scope and Contents
Family correspondence, prayer letters, brochures, newspaper clippings, prayer cards and letters from other missionaries, photographs, slides, negatives, journals and diaries, and eight interviews concerning Elliott's childhood in China, mission work with China Inland Mission (now Overseas Missionary Fellowship) in China and the Philippines, her experiences as an evangelist and teacher, her life in China during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945, and the civil war that followed. Her retirement...
Dates:
Created: 1910-1988
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 287 Oral History Interview with Margaret Crossett
Collection
Identifier: CN 287
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Margaret Rice Elliott Crossett in which she describes her childhood with her missionary parents in China, her education at Wheaton College, and missionary career with her husband, Vincent Crossett, in China and Taiwan with China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship (1929-1948, 1961-1973). Topics discussed include Crossett's childhood in China; description of Chinese indigenous worship practices and syncretism in Chinese religious culture; Crossett's...
Dates:
Created: 1984-1986
Collection 288 Oral History Interview with Vincent L. Crossett
Collection
Identifier: CN 288
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Vincent Leroy Crossett (1907-1999) in which he describes his education at Wheaton and Westminster Seminary, missionary work with China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship in China and Taiwan, and pastoral work in a local church in Hawaii. Topics discussed include Crossett's education at Wheaton College and Westminster Seminary; decision to join China Inland Mission; language school; evangelism methods; characteristics of the Chinese church; CIM's...
Dates:
Created: 1984-1986
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
Helen Renich Papers.
Collection
Identifier: CN 124
Brief Description
Two oral history interviews with Helen Gignilliat Torrey Renich in which she describes her grandfather, Reuben Archer Torrey, Sr., and her experiences growing up in China as a child of missionaries. Other topics discussed include her experiences at Wheaton College and culture shock. The collection also includes photographs of her family life in China and Chinese nationals, ca. 1920-30s.Helen Renich was interviewed by Robert Shuster on May 15, 1980 in Michigan and on May 17, 1982...
Dates:
Created: 1920-1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Helen Renich Papers.
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- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 5
- China -- History. 5
- Evangelistic work. 5
- Language in missionary work. 5
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 5
- Missionaries. 5
- Rural missions. 5
- Tribes. 5
- Bible. 4
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 4
- Christian education -- China. 4
- Christian education. 4
- Communism -- China. 4
- Communism. 4
- Culture shock. 4
- Evangelistic work -- China. 4
- Family. 4
- Medical care 4
- Medical care -- China. 4
- Missionaries -- Training of. 4
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 3
- Buddhists -- China. 3
- Buddhists. 3
- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 3
- Conversion. 3
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 3
- Missionaries' spouses. 3
- Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 3
- Missions, Medical. 3
- Refugees 3
- Refugees -- China. 3
- Sex role. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 3
- World War, 1939-1945. 3
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
- Boarding schools -- China. 2
- Boarding schools. 2
- Catholic Church. 2
- China -- Religion. 2
- China -- Social life and customs. 2
- China. 2
- Christian education -- Taiwan. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
- Christian literature. 2
- Church and social problems. 2
- Church development, New. 2
- Church work with women -- China. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- Crime and criminals 2
- Crime and criminals -- China. 2
- Education 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Taiwan. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missions -- Educational work. 2
- Missions -- Taiwan. 2
- Missions to Buddhists -- China. 2
- Missions to Buddhists. 2
- Missions. 2
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
- Persecution -- China. 2
- Persecution. 2
- Presbyterians. 2
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- Rural churches. 2
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- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 2
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- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 2
- Tribes -- China. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 2
- Ancestor worship. 1
- Ancestor worship. -- China. 1
- Animism. 1
- Belief and doubt. 1
- Bible -- Evidences, authority, etc. 1
- Bible -- Publication and distribution -- China. 1
- Bible -- Translating. 1
- Bible colleges 1
- Bible colleges -- United States. 1
- Bible colleges. 1
- Boarding schools -- Korea. 1
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 1
- Catholic Church -- Relations 1
- Catholic Church. -- China. 1
- Children of missionaries -- China. 1
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 1
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