Kuhn, John Becker.
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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 678 Oral History Interview with Helen Grace Madeira Cox
Collection
Identifier: CN 678
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Helen Grace Madeira Cox (1921-2019), missionary in China from 1947-1951 and Northern Thailand 1953-1973 with China Inland Mission (later Overseas Missionary Fellowship). Topics discussed include Cox's childhood experiences and early faith in the Church of the Brethren; call to missionary work; education at Columbia Bible College and Wheaton College; teaching Bible in Virginia public schools; attending Missionary Medical Institute and Wycliffe’s Summer Institute of...
Dates:
2014
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
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Animism -- Thailand 2
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
- Bible -- Translating. 2
- Children of missionaries. 2
- China -- Description and travel. 2
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 2
- Chinese language. 2
- Communism -- China. 2
- Conversion -- Christianity. 2
- Literacy programs 2
- Missions -- Linguistic work. 2
- Opium trade -- Thailand. 2
- Tribes -- Thailand. 2
- Wheaton revival (Wheaton, Ill.) -- 1943 2
- Boarding schools. 1
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 1
- China -- History -- 1949- 1
- China -- History. 1
- China -- Religion. 1
- China -- Social life and customs. 1
- China. 1
- Christianity and culture. 1
- Church of the Brethren 1
- Columbia Bible College, -- Columbia, SC. 1
- Communism. 1
- Evangelistic work -- China. 1
- Evangelistic work -- Thailand. 1
- Evangelistic work. 1
- Hmong (Asian people) 1
- Hmong language 1
- Korea -- Foreign Relations -- Japan -- 1910-1945. 1
- Language in missionary work. 1
- Lisu (Southeast Asian people) 1
- Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 1
- Missions -- Korea. 1
- Missions -- Rural work. 1
- Missions -- Singapore. 1
- Missions. 1
- Music -- China. 1
- Overseas Missionary Fellowship, Home Council (United States) 1
- Persecution -- China. 1
- Revivals -- China. 1
- Revivals. 1
- Spiritual healing. 1
- Summer Institute of Linguistics. 1
- Thailand -- Description and travel 1
- Three-self movement. 1
- Wheaton College (Ill.) 1
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- West Suburban School of Nursing 1
- Women 1
- Yao (Southeast Asian people) -- Religion 1
- Yao (Southeast Asian people) -- Social life and customs. 1
- Yao (Southeast Asian people) -- United States 1
- Yao language (Southeast Asia) 1
- Yao language (Southeast Asia) -- Writing 1
- Yunnan Sheng (China). 1 ∧ less
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