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Collection 208 Oral History Interview with Doris Embery
Collection
Identifier: CN 208
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Doris Embery in which she discusses the activities of her parents, who were China Inland Mission workers; her education at the CIM school in Chefoo; her reflections on the lack of uniqueness of missionary children; her work with Scripture Union, experiences as a missionary for Overseas Missionary Fellowship in Hong Kong, and her experiences after she left China. The time period covered by the interviews is 1916 to 1957.Doris Embery was interviewed by...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Collection 558 Oral History Interviews with Curtis Cole
Collection
Identifier: CN 558
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Curitis Cole. Topics covered include: Cole’s family background, the development of his Christian faith, his experiences as a missionary kid in Ivory Coast in the 1970s, descriptions of the Christian community in Ivory Coast and the Ivory Coast Academy; Ivorian worship services; his education at Michigan State University, his business career in Denver and his ministry as a youth pastor there, his and his wife's call to missions, his work in Ecuador as an...
Dates:
Created: 1998
Collection 290 Oral History Interview with Merle A. Steely
Collection
Identifier: CN 290
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Merle Ashel Steely, who worked as a missionary with Sudan Interior Mission between 1951 and 1977 in Liberia and Nigeria. Topic discussed include: Steely's conversion while in military service, education and employment at Wheaton College (including the 1950 revival there), his missionary work in Liberia at radio station ELWA and with Sudan Interior Mission in Nigeria, teaching in mission and government schools, evangelism and church planting, Billy Graham's 1960...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Collection 104 Oral History Interview with Bruce F. Hunt
Collection
Identifier: CN 104
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews in which Bruce Finley Hunt (1903-1992) discusses his boyhood in Korea, college and seminary education at Wheaton College, Rutgers University and Princeton Seminary; a portion (1928-1942) of his missionary work in Korea and Manchuria; and his impressions of Korean culture. The time period covered by the interviews is roughly 1903-1976.Bruce Finley Hunt was interviewed by Robert Shuster on March 22 and May 21, 1980 and October 16, 2002 in Abington, PA and...
Dates:
Created: 1980-1982
Collection 263 Oral History Interview with Margaret Carlson
Collection
Identifier: CN 263
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Margaret Johanna (Larson) Carlson in which she describes growing up in Ecuador as the child of missionaries, her education at Westmont and Wheaton Colleges, her nursing experience, and her missionary service with her husband at the Christian and Missionary Alliance Seminary in Hong Kong. Other topics discussed include: the founding of a HCJB radio station by her father, Reuben Larson, and her involvement in Wheaton College's HNGR Program. Individuals described...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Collection 283 Oral History Interviews with Nancy Folkerts
Collection
Identifier: CN 283
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Nancy Wood Folkerts. Topics discussed include her childhood as a pastor's daughter; study at Wheaton College; her marriage; training in London; work as a missionary in British Cameroon (now Republic of Cameroon), especially Bible study and literacy programs for women and 3H clubs for girls; the political and social situation in Cameroon; Cameroon independence; medical problems in Cameroon; the work of her husband, Fred, at the Baptist Teacher Training College and...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Collection 262 Oral History Interview with Raymond Buker Jr.
Collection
Identifier: CN 262
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Raymond Bates Buker in which he describes growing up in Burma as the child of missionaries, his education at Wheaton College, his decision to become a missionary under the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society, language study; evangelization, church planting, translation, medical missions and education activities in Pakistan, working with Muslims and the Sindhi, Bhils, and Marwari tribal people, 1954-1969. Other topics discussed include: the culture,...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Collection 317 Oral History Interview with Ian H. and Ruth E. Cook
Collection
Identifier: CN 317
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Ian Harper Cooke and Ruth Eileen (Witmer) Cook, in which Ian describes his childhood and education in South Africa, college education at Wheaton College, training for missionary work, medical missions work in South Africa with The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM), the Zulus, apartheid, and the national church; and Ruth describes her childhood, conversion, and intention to become a missionary nurse, education at West Suburban Hospital and Wheaton College,...
Dates:
Created: 1985
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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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
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- Boarding schools. 9
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- Evangelistic work. 8
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 8
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- Conversion. 6
- Indigenous church administration 6
- Language in missionary work. 6
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- Women missionaries. 6
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- World War, 1939-1945. 4
- Animism. 3
- Bible. 3
- Boarding schools -- China. 3
- China -- History. 3
- Christian education. 3
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- Evangelistic work -- China. 3
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- Bible -- Translating. 2
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- Persecution. 2
- Presbyterian Church -- Missions. 2
- Presbyterian Church. 2
- Racism. 2
- Radio in missionary work. 2
- Radio in religion. 2
- Rural churches. 2
- Shortwave radio. 2
- Theological seminaries. 2
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 2
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- Alcoholism -- United States 1
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- Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service -- Nigeria. 1
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- Animism -- South Africa. 1
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) 8
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 6
- Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 2
- Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 2
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 2
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 2
- Moody Bible Institute. 2
- OMF International. 2
- Advent Christian Church. 1
- Bechtel, Paul M. (1957-1998) 1
- Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 1
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 1
- Bole, Simeon James, 1875- 1
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 1
- Buker, Raymond B., 1899-1992. 1
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 1
- Carlson, Margaret Johanna. 1
- Carlson, Robert Dean. 1
- Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
- China Inland Mission. 1
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 1
- Cole, Curtis Lee, 1960- 1
- Cook, Ian H. 1
- Cook, Ruth E., 1931- 1
- Dodds, Gilbert, 1918- 1
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 1
- Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956. 1
- Embery, Doris. 1
- Embery, William James. 1
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 1
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Francis. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Jennie. 1
- Folkerts, Fred C. 1
- Folkerts, Nancy. 1
- Fraser, James Outram, 1886-1938. 1
- Gaebelein, Frank E. (Frank Ely), 1899-1983. 1
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 1
- Hunt, Bruce Finley, 1903-1992. 1
- Hunt, William Brewster. 1
- Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. 1
- International Christian Academy (Ivory Coast) 1
- Jacoby, Walter S. 1
- Jones, Clarence W. 1
- Jones, Howard O. 1
- Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 1
- Kolbali, Mousa. 1
- Kuhn, Isobel. 1
- Kuhn, John Becker. 1
- Larson, Reuben. 1
- LeBar, Lois E. (Lois Emogene), 1907-1997. 1
- LeBar, Mary E. (Mary Evelyn), 1910- 1
- League of Evangelical Students. 1
- Machen, J. Gresham (John Gresham), 1881-1937. 1
- McCully, Theodore Edward, 1927-1956. 1
- McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 1
- Moravian Church. 1
- North American Baptist Conference. 1
- Philadelphia Bible Institute. 1
- Princeton Theological Seminary. 1
- Renich-Meyers, Jill. 1
- Saint, Nathaniel, 1923-1956. 1
- Scripture Union. 1
- Smith, George H., ca. 1846-1935. 1
- Steely, Merle A. 1
- Steely, Vera Mae. 1
- Stony Brook School (Stony Brook, N.Y.) 1
- Straw, Darien A. 1
- Sudan Interior Mission. 1
- Tenney, Merrill C. (Merrill Chapin), 1904-1985. 1
- Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928 1
- United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. 1
- West Suburban Hospital (Oak Park, Ill.) 1
- Zhongguo guo min dang. 1 ∧ less
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