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Christian and Missionary Alliance.

 Organization

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Collection 256 Oral History Interviews with Malcolm and Helen Sawyer

 Collection
Identifier: CN 256
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Malcolm Maurice Sawyer (1919-2007) and with Helen Irvin Sawyer, in which the Sawyers discuss their childhood, education, and working for the Christian and Missionary Alliance in China, 1948-1950 and in Laos, 1950-1975. Mission activities in Laos include church planting, training of pastors, and medical assistance to the Khamu and Hmong peoples, language study, Vietnam, Thailand and Tibet, transfer to Laos, cultural differences, political situation in Vietnam,...
Dates: Created: 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

Collection 386 Oral History Interview with Charles H. Dawson

 Collection
Identifier: CN 386
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Charles H. Dawson (1916-2000) in which he describes his family background; conversion; involvement in street preaching; jail ministry and other work in the Camden area; involvement in the work of the Afro-American Missionary Crusade; and philosophy of Christian work. Other topics discussed include Dawson's training at the New Jersey Bible School; street preaching; Montrose Waite; Dawson's trips to Africa from the 1960s through the 1980s; training African...
Dates: Created: 1988

Collection 390 Papers of Janet Kuhns

 Collection
Identifier: CN 390
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews and manuscript, relating to the ministry of Janet Kuhns, missionary among the Dayak people in West Kalimantan, Indonesia under the auspices of the Christian and Missionary Alliance (CM&A).[NOTE: In the Scope and Content description, the notation "Folder 1-1" means box 1, Folder 1.]Series: Audio TapesThree oral history interviews with Janet Kuhns in which she...
Dates: Created: 1987-1988

Collection 404 Oral History Interview with Rosanna Formanek

 Collection
Identifier: CN 404
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Rosanna Formenak in which she discusses her family background; conversion; education at Nyack College and Columbia University in nursing; experiences as a missionary in Gabon with the Christian and Missionary Alliance; youth work, relationship between church and state in Gabon; medical work; and the strengths and weaknesses of the church in Gabon. Other topics discussed include the influence of Word of Life and Youth for Christ on Formenak’s spiritual growth,...
Dates: Created: 1988

Collection 414 Papers of Wade T. Coggins

 Collection
Identifier: CN 414
Scope and Contents

Oral history interviews, papers and speech manuscripts relating to the ministry of Wade T. Coggins, Christian worker with the Christian and Missionary Alliance and the Evangelical Foreign Mission Association.

Dates: Created: 1964-1990

Collection 471 Papers of W. Arthur Saunders

 Collection
Identifier: CN 471
Scope and Contents Oral history interview and a manuscript translated by W. Arthur Saunders, relating to Saunder’s missionary service in China with China Inland Mission and Overseas Missionary Fellowship from 1930 to 1987. The interview describes his childhood in England, emigration to New Zealand, training at the New Zealand Bible Institute, joining the China Inland Mission, going to China in 1930, evangelistic work in south Gansu province, the work of Chinese evangelists, worship services in Gansu churches,...
Dates: Created: 1992

Collection 472 Oral History Interview with Paul A. Contento

 Collection
Identifier: CN 472
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Paul A. Contento in which he discusses his childhood, conversion, attendance at Moody Bible Institute, going to China in 1928 as a China Inland Mission worker, evangelistic work in Ningxia province (Inner Mongolia) and work among university students in southwest and northwest China, founding of the Inter-Varsity student movements in China, Singapore and Vietnam; Calvin Chao; the Sino-Japanese war; the communist takeover in China; founding of Singapore Bible...
Dates: Created: 19992

Donald and Mary McGavran Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 178
Brief Description

Correspondence, lectures, sermons, book manuscripts, surveys, audio tapes, video tapes, microfilm of letters, notes, and other records dealing with the life of the McGavrans, especially their work as missionaries in India with the Disciples of Christ, and Donald's activities as an author and educator, including his role as founding dean of Fuller Seminary's School of World Mission. Much of the collection deals with his role in originating, developing, and applying church growth theory.

Dates: Created: 1906-2000

Filtered By

  • Subject: Conversion. X
  • Subject: Missionaries -- Training of. X

Additional filters:

Subject
Evangelistic work. 8
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 8
Women missionaries. 6
Church and state. 5
Indigenous church administration 5
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Language in missionary work. 5
Women -- Religious life. 5
Bible colleges 4
Christian education. 4
Christian life. 4
Evangelistic work -- United States. 4
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 4
Missions -- China. 4
Missions -- Educational work. 4
Women 4
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 3
China -- History. 3
Christian leadership. 3
Christianity and culture. 3
Church and social problems. 3
Church growth. 3
Communism -- China. 3
Communism. 3
Family. 3
Intercultural communication. 3
Missionaries' spouses. 3
Missions -- Africa. 3
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
Persecution. 3
Preaching. 3
Rural missions. 3
Tribes. 3
African Americans -- Missions. 2
African Americans. 2
Animism. 2
Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
Bible. 2
Catholic Church. 2
Children of missionaries. 2
Children. 2
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
China -- History -- 1949- 2
China -- Religion. 2
Church and state -- China. 2
Church growth -- Philosophy. 2
Evangelicalism -- United States. 2
Evangelicalism. 2
Evangelistic work -- China. 2
Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 2
Evangelistic work -- Singapore. 2
Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
Medical care 2
Missionaries -- United States. 2
Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 2
Missions -- Asia. 2
Missions -- Finance. 2
Missions -- Singapore. 2
Missions -- Study and teaching. 2
Missions -- Theory. 2
Missions, Medical. 2
Missions. 2
Persecution -- China. 2
Seminary extension. 2
Street preaching. 2
Theological Education by Extension (Program) 2
Africa. -- Description and travel. 1
African Americans -- Social conditions. 1
Animism -- Gabon. 1
Belief and doubt. 1
Bible -- Translating. 1
Bible colleges -- Colombia. 1
Bible colleges -- Indonesia. 1
Bible colleges -- Laos. 1
Bible colleges -- New Jersey. 1
Bible colleges -- United States. 1
Bible colleges. 1
Buddhism -- Laos. 1
Buddhism. 1
Camden (N.J.) 1
Catholic Church -- Colombia. 1
Catholic Church -- Evangelicalism. 1
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 1
Catholic Church -- United States. 1
Children -- Conversion to Christianity. 1
Children -- Religious life. 1
Children -- United States 1
Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 1
China -- Church history -- 20th century. 1
China -- Church history. 1
China -- Description and travel. 1
China -- History -- 1912-1939. 1
China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901. 1
China. 1
Chinese language. 1
Christian education -- Colombia. 1
Christian education -- Gabon. 1
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