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Kuhn, John Becker.

 Person

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

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 314 Oral History Interview with Martha H. Philips

 Collection
Identifier: CN 314
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Martha H. Philips (1905-1996) in which she describes her childhood, education, missionary work in China with China Inland Mission at Chefoo School as a teacher of missionary children, her internment by the Japanese at Temple Hill and Wei Xian camps, repatriation, working with Wycliffe Bible Translators among the Zapotec Indians in southern Mexico, and traveling throughout the world representing the mission. The time period covered by the interviews is roughly...
Dates: Created: 1985

Collection 435 Ephemera of Isobel Miller Kuhn

 Collection
Identifier: CN 435
Scope and Contents Correspondence, newsletters, articles, negatives, and photographs relating to the missionary service of Isobel and John Kuhn, primarily among the Lisu people in China and Thailand with Overseas Missionary Fellowship from 1928 to 1954. The topics discussed in the letters include travel in China, missions work, their marriage, birth of daughter and son, cultural differences, advance of communists into the Lisu area, biographical sketches of co-workers Mary Baldock, Frances Bailey, Lilian...
Dates: Created: 1927-1983

Collection 680 Papers of the Almond Family

 Collection
Identifier: CN 680
Scope and Contents

Diaries and oral history interviews documenting the work of Overseas Missionary Fellowship (China Inland Mission) workers Louis Almond, his first wife Stella and his second wife Helen in China (1949-1951), Thailand and the United States. Helen’s interview also describes the activities of the United States office of OMF, where she worked for many years.

Dates: 1949-1951, 2015-2016

Collection 681 Oral History Interview with Mertis Byram Heimbach

 Collection
Identifier: CN 681
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Mertis Byram Heimbach (1921- ) missionary in China, Thailand, Singapore and U.S. with China Inland Mission (CIM) and (as it was later known) Overseas Missionary Fellowship (OMF) from 1946 to 1999. Topics discussed include childhood in Korea; parents’ mission work; Wheaton College and Prairie Bible Institute; marriage to Ernest Heimbach; Hmong (Miao) people; tribal mission work; Communist takeover of China; Communist treatment of Christians; CIM’s exit from China;...
Dates: 2014

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Subject
Women -- Religious life. 4
Women missionaries. 4
Bible -- Translating. 3
Boarding schools. 3
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 3
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China -- History. 3
Chinese language. 3
Communism -- China. 3
Evangelistic work -- China. 3
Evangelistic work. 3
Language in missionary work. 3
Missions -- Thailand. 3
Women 3
Bible colleges 2
Bible. 2
Boarding schools -- China. 2
China -- History -- 1949- 2
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 2
China. 2
Christian education. 2
Christian life. 2
Christianity and culture. 2
Communism. 2
Conversion. 2
Evangelistic work -- Thailand. 2
Lisu (Southeast Asian people) 2
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 2
Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 2
Missionaries. 2
Missions. 2
Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
Music -- China. 2
Persecution -- China. 2
Rural missions. 2
Tribes. 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 2
World War, 1939-1945. 2
Aboriginal Australians. 1
Animism -- Mexico. 1
Animism -- Thailand 1
Animism. 1
Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
Bible colleges -- Canada. 1
Bible colleges -- United States. 1
Catholic Church. 1
Catholic Church. -- Mexico. 1
Children of missionaries -- China. 1
Children of missionaries -- Education. 1
China -- Church history -- 20th century. 1
China -- Church history. 1
China -- Description and travel. 1
China -- Religion. 1
Christian education -- Canada. 1
Christian education -- China. 1
Christian education of adults. 1
Christian giving. 1
Church development, New -- Thailand 1
Church discipline. 1
Church finance. 1
Church management. 1
Conversion -- Christianity. 1
Culture shock. 1
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers 1
Evangelistic work -- Canada. 1
Evangelistic work -- Hymns. 1
Fund raising. 1
Hmong (Asian people) 1
Hmong language 1
Indians of Mexico 1
Indians of Mexico -- Oaxaca 1
Indians of Mexico -- Oaxaca -- Missions. 1
Indians of Mexico -- Oaxaca -- Religion and mythology. 1
Indigenous church administration 1
Indigenous church administration -- China. 1
Kachin (Asian people) 1
Kachin language. 1
Korea -- Foreign Relations -- Japan -- 1910-1945. 1
Korean War, 1950-1953. 1
Lay missionaries. 1
Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) 1
Linguistics 1
Linguistics -- Mexico. 1
Literacy programs 1
Mexico 1
Mexico -- Religion 1
Missionaries -- Training of. 1
Missionaries -- Canada. 1
Missionaries -- Japan. 1
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 1
Missionaries -- Training of -- Canada. 1
Missionaries' spouses. 1
Missions -- Mexico. 1
Missions -- Administration. 1
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation -- Thailand 1
Missions -- Korea. 1
Missions -- Linguistic work. 1
Missions -- Rural work. 1
Missions -- Singapore. 1
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