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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
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 671 Oral History Interview with David P. Bruce
Collection
Identifier: CN 671
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with David P. Bruce, in which he discusses the history of the Montreat office of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) that functioned as the personal secretariat of Billy Graham; the relationship of the office to the rest of the BGEA; Bruce's own background and his work as assistant to Graham; L. Nelson Bell and other BGEA leaders (T. W. Wilson, Stephanie Wills, John Akers, Charlie Riggs, Sterling Huston, and John Corts); effects on the Montreat office of...
Dates:
Created: 2013
Collection 486 Oral History Interview with Helen R. Jongewaard
Collection
Identifier: CN 486
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Helen Ruth Supplee Jongewaard (1922-2005) in which she describes her time as a student at Wheaton College. Among the topics discussed are aquaintance with Billy Graham; the Boethallian Literary Society; memories of professors such as Carl Henry, William Nordin; Russell Mixter, Merrill Tenney, V Raymond Edman, and others; revival of 1943 on Wheaton campus; and the effect of World War II on Wheaton. The time period covered by the inteview is 1920 to 1943....
Dates:
Created: 1993
Collection 491 Oral History Interview with Chester Terpstra
Collection
Identifier: CN 491
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Chester Terpstra (1917-2007) in which he discusses his years as a student at Wheaton College (1939-1943); his friendship with Billy Graham; and his later ministry in Micronesia and Hawaii. Other topics discussed include the religious culture of Hawaii during World War II and after; the prevalence of pre-millenialism at Wheaton College and among evangelical missionaries; and the 1943 revival at Wheaton College. The time period covered by the interviews is 1939 to...
Dates:
Created: 1993
Collection 344 Oral History Interview with Paul B. Long
Collection
Identifier: CN 344
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Paul Brown Long in which he discusses his childhood, attendance at Wheaton Academy and Wheaton College (including individuals Hudson, Taylor Armerding, Edward A. Coray, V. Raymond Edman, Billy Graham, Ruth Bell Graham, Clarence Jaarsma, Clarence Simpson, C. Gregg Singer), missionary work in education, evangelism, and church planting in the former Belgian Congo and in Brazil. Other topics include animism, church discipline, Christianity and culture, rearing a...
Dates:
Created: 1986
David H. Adeney Papers.
Collection
Identifier: CN 393
Brief Description
Adeney’s correspondence, writings (articles, books), lecture and presentation manuscripts, subject files (especially files on various China-related topics) he compiled from many sources, notebooks and loose notes, a photo album, photographs and slides, and two oral history interviews. Together these span his career as a missionary in China and Southeast Asia, staff with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in the United States, leader with International Fellowship of Evangelical Students,...
Dates:
Created: 1911-1994
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
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Helen Renich Papers.
Collection 088 Papers of Paul and Catharine Gieser
Collection
Identifier: CN 088
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Kenneth Gieser and letters reporting to the Southern Presbyterian Mission Board in Nashville, TN on the Gieser’s work in China, written between October 19, 1934, and November 1, 1936. Also contains audio tapes and transcripts of autobiographical statements.
Dates:
Created: 1934-1979
Collection 658 Papers of Samuel D. Faircloth
Collection
Identifier: CN 658
Scope and Contents
Prayer letters and an oral history interviews which document Samuel Douglas Faircloth’s childhood, conversion, education at Wheaton College and elsewhere, and his work as a United States Army chaplain in Italy immediately after World War II, as a church planter in Portugal, and a seminary professor at the Tyndale Theological Seminary in the Netherlands.
Dates:
Created: 1949-2011
Collection 693 Papers of Jim Vaus
Collection
Identifier: CN 693
Scope and Contents
Newsletters, oral history transcripts, manuscripts, correspondence, slides, photographs, audio recordings, and films relating to Jim Vaus’ youth ministry work in East Harlem, NY and later youth camp ministries in New York and California and internationally with the Missionary Communication Service. The collection also contains material on Jim Vaus’ work as a wiretapper for the Los Angeles mob prior to his conversion to Christianity at the 1949 Los Angeles Billy Graham Crusade, and the 1955...
Dates:
Created: 1950-2001
Collection 278: Elisabeth Elliot Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 278
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, slides, clippings, publicity releases, reviews, manuscripts, films, video and audio tapes relating to Elisabeth Elliot's careers as a missionary in Ecuador, author, teacher and speaker. The collection is particularly rich in material relating to the so-called "Auca Incident" and Elliot's own work the Waorani, whose enemies called them the "Auca," as well as her lectures on the Biblical view of the roles of men and women, dealing with suffering, and personal holiness, among...
Dates:
Created: 1926-2010; Majority of material found within 1938-2010
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- Conversion. 6
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- Animism. 1
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- Bible colleges. 1
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- Brazil -- Religion. 1
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- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 8
- Wheaton College (Ill.) 8
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 5
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 4
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 3
- Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 2
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 2
- Christian Medical Society. 2
- Glasser, Arthur F. (Arthur Frederick), 1914- 2
- Houghton, Frank, 1894-1972. 2
- Kuhn, John Becker. 2
- Mixter, Russell L. 2
- OMF International. 2
- Prairie Bible Institute. 2
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 2
- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 2
- Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 2
- Summer Institute of Linguistics. 2
- Torrey, Edith C. 2
- United Gospel Tabernacle (Wheaton, Ill.) 2
- Wilson, Grady, 1919-1987. 2
- Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 1
- Adeney, Ruth W. 1
- Africa Inland Mission. 1
- Akers, John N. 1
- Ambassadors for Christ (Allentown, Pa.) 1
- Anderson, Ann Kiemel. 1
- Anderson, Peter. 1
- Armerding, Hudson T. 1
- Armitage, Carolyn. 1
- Association of Christians Ministering Among Internationals. 1
- Bacon, Daniel W. 1
- Baldock, Mary, 1918- 1
- Barrows, Cliff. 1
- Becker, Carl K., Jr. 1
- Bell, B. Clayton. 1
- Berg, Clayton L., 1928- 1
- Billy Graham Center. Institute for Chinese Studies. 1
- Bosshardt, Rudolf Alfred. 1
- Bruce, David, 1952- 1
- Bruce, Kerri. 1
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 1
- Burgess, V. Ann. 1
- Bürki, Hans Ferdinand, 1925- 1
- Camp Champion. 1
- Canadian Sunday School Mission. 1
- Carmichael, Amy, 1867-1951. 1
- Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
- Cash, Johnny. 1
- Ch'eng, Marcus, 1884-1964. 1
- Chandapilla, P. T. 1
- Chandler, Rosemary Joy. 1
- Chao, Calvin. 1
- Chao, Jonathan. 1
- Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
- China Graduate School of Theology. 1
- China Inland Mission. 1
- China Inter-Varsity Evangelical Christian Students Fellowship. 1
- Chinese Church Research Center. 1
- Chinese Congress on World Evangelization (1976 : Hong Kong) 1
- Chinese World Mission Centre. 1
- Christian Communications Ltd. (Hong Kong) 1
- Christianity Today International. 1
- Chua, Wee Hian, 1939- 1
- Chung, Derek. 1
- Clark, Gordon H. (Gordon Haddon), 1902-1985. 1
- Cohen, Mickey, 1914-1976. 1
- College Church in Wheaton (Ill.) 1
- Colson, Charles W. 1
- Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 1
- Contento, Paul A. 1
- Coray, Edward A. 1
- Corts, John. 1
- Cox, Eric James. 1
- Cox, Helen Madeira. 1
- Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 1
- Dayuma (Auca Indian) 1
- Debrine, John. 1
- Discipleship Training Centre (Singapore) 1
- Dohnavur Fellowship. 1
- Downing, Kenneth L., 1908-1989. 1
- Dowsett, Dick. 1
- Draper, Ben. 1
- Dyrness, Enock. 1
- Elliot, Elisabeth. 1
- Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956. 1
- English Language Institute/China. 1
- Evangelical China Office. 1
- Faircloth, Arlis. 1
- Faircloth, Samuel D. 1
- Fellowship of Evangelical Students (Malaysia) 1
- Fellowship of Evangelical Students (Singapore) 1
- Ferm, Lois. 1
- Ferm, Robert O. (Robert Oscar), 1911-1994. 1
- First Asian Student Missionary Convention (1973 : Baguio, Philippines) 1
- Fleming, Peter, 1928-1956. 1
- Frame, Raymond. 1
- Friends of China Fellowship. 1
- Frost, David, 1939-2013. 1 ∧ less
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