Wheaton College (Ill.)

Collection 619 Oral History Interviews from Singapore Bible College

Collection

Identifier: CN 619

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Verda Poulson, E. N. Poulson, and Dr. Buela Violet James concerning their life experiences as Singapore Bible College (SBC) faculty and staff. Topics discussed include history of SBC, student life; gender division at SBC; mission education; SBC conservativism; development of degree programs; SBC leadership and lecturers; teaching styles; student fieldwork; Overseas Missionary Fellowship; evangelism efforts in Asia; church development; Singapore; cultural...

Dates: 2005

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 619 Oral History Interviews from Singapore Bible College

Collection 651 Oral History Interviews with Mary J. Hawthorne

Collection

Identifier: CN 651

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Mary J. Hawthorne in which she describes her experiences working in community development, education, evangelism, and medical missions among the Quechua people in Bolivia with SIM International for over 20 years, beginning in 1989. Topics discussed include her family background and spiritual development; education at Wheaton College; impressions of various mission agencies; including SIM, Medical Assistance Program (MAP), and the Moravians; challenges of...

Dates: 2009-2010

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 651 Oral History Interviews with Mary J. Hawthorne

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

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 672 Oral History Interviews with Jeanne Blumhagen.

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

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 681 Oral History Interview with Mertis Byram Heimbach

Collection 721 Papers of Fred and Clara Elliot

Collection

Identifier: CN 721

Scope and Contents Correspondence and clippings received or created by the Elliots, who were parents of the missionary Jim Elliot. Most of the collection consists of letters from Jim Elliot to his parents and/or other members of his family, although there are also numerous letters from his parents to him and letters from other correspondents, such as Elisabeth Elliot (Jim’s wife), Ed and Marilou McCully, Marj Saint, and Barbara Youderian. The letters describe contemporaneously Jim Elliot’s student years at...

Dates: 1945-1958

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 721 Papers of Fred and Clara Elliot