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Collection 314 Oral History Interview with Martha H. Philips

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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 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 262 Oral History Interview with Raymond Buker Jr.

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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 248 Papers of William J. Barnett

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Identifier: CN 248
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews and booklet of short stories and photographs created by William John Barnett, relating to his upbringing in Kenya as the son of missionaries with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) and his own later medical missionary service in Tanzania, Kenya, and the Comoro Islands from 1950-1990.Series: Audio TapesOral history interviews with William John Barnett in which he describes his childhood in Kenya with his missionary parents;...
Dates: Created: 1983-1997

Collection 272 Papers of Jennie Fitzwilliam

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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 331 Papers of Reuben Archer Torrey, III

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Identifier: CN 331
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Reuben Archer Torrey III and a videotape of the Otterbein United Brethren Missionary Convention in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania on April 23, 1986.Audio TapesOral history interview with Reuben Archer Torrey in which he describes his childhood in China as the son of Presbyterian missionaries; his experiences at boarding schools in China and Korea; his grandfather, Dr. R. A. Torrey, Sr.; his work as an Episcopalian...
Dates: Created: 1986

Collection 335 Papers of Ralph E. Shannon

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Identifier: CN 335
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews and paper records relating to Ralph Shannon’s life and ministry as a medical missionary in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo).Audio Tapes Four oral history interviews with Ralph Shannon, recorded on eight reels of audio tape. Topics covered include Shannon's childhood in Belgian Congo (Zaire) with his missionary parents, Wheaton College undergraduate and graduate education, service in Zaire as a medical...
Dates: Created: 1986-1990

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Conversion. 6
Tribes. 6
Women missionaries. 6
Christian life. 5
Language in missionary work. 5
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Animism. 4
Bible -- Translating. 4
Bible. 4
Christian education. 4
Indigenous church administration 4
Missionaries -- Training of. 4
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
Bible colleges 3
Boarding schools -- China. 3
Catholic Church. 3
Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
Christianity and culture. 3
Church and state. 3
Church discipline. 3
Culture shock. 3
Evangelistic work -- China. 3
Missions -- China. 3
Missions -- Study and teaching. 3
Missions. 3
Rural churches. 3
Sex role. 3
Women 3
Women -- Religious life. 3
World War, 1939-1945. 3
Children of missionaries -- China. 2
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 2
China -- History. 2
China. 2
Christian leadership. 2
Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
Christian literature. 2
College students -- Religious life. 2
College students. 2
Fund raising. 2
Great Britain 2
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
Great Britain -- Colonies. 2
Intercultural communication. 2
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 2
Lay missionaries. 2
Medical care 2
Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
Missionaries' spouses. 2
Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
Missions -- Educational work. 2
Missions -- Finance. 2
Missions to Muslims. 2
Missions, Medical. 2
Muslims. 2
Pentecostalism. 2
Presbyterians. 2
Radio in missionary work. 2
Revivals -- Wheaton. 2
Revivals. 2
Rural churches -- China. 2
Rural missions -- China. 2
Sunday schools. 2
Theological seminaries. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 2
Worship. 2
AIDS (Disease) 1
Aboriginal Australians. 1
Alcoholism -- United States 1
Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service 1
Alcoholism. -- United States -- Diplomatic and consular service -- Nigeria. 1
Ancestor worship. 1
Ancestor worship. -- China. 1
Animism -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
Animism -- Kenya. 1
Animism -- Mexico. 1
Animism -- Nigeria. 1
Athletes 1
Athletes -- United States 1
Athletes -- United States -- Religious life. 1
BGEA: South Africa Tour -- 1960 1
Baptism in the Holy Spirit. 1
Belief and doubt. 1
Bhil (Indic people) 1
Bible colleges -- Canada. 1
Bible colleges -- Nigeria. 1
Bible colleges -- United States. 1
Bible. -- New International 1
Boarding schools -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
Boarding schools -- Kenya. 1
Boarding schools -- Korea. 1
Boarding schools -- Nigeria. 1
Caste. 1
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Names
Wheaton College (Ill.) 5
Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 3
Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 2
Kuhn, Isobel. 2
Kuhn, John Becker. 2
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Moody Bible Institute. 2
Advent Christian Church. 1
Africa Inland Church. 1
Africa Inland Mission. 1
Allen, Roland, 1869-1947. 1
Assemblies of God. 1
Barnett, Albert E. 1
Barnett, Elma. 1
Barnett, William John. 1
Bible Institute of Los Angeles. 1
Bokeleale, Jean B., 1919-2002. 1
Buker, Raymond B., 1899-1992. 1
Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 1
China Inland Mission. 1
China International Famine Relief Commission. 1
Church of England. 1
Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 1
Davis, Ralph T. 1
Dodds, Gilbert, 1918- 1
ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 1
Egilse de J'esus-Christ sur la terre par le proph'ete Simon Kimbangu (Democratic Republic of Congo) 1
Eglise du Christ au Zaire. 1
Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956. 1
Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 1
Fitzwilliam, Francis. 1
Fitzwilliam, Jennie. 1
Fraser, James Outram, 1886-1938. 1
Gaebelein, Frank E. (Frank Ely), 1899-1983. 1
Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 1
Gripsholm (Ocean liner) 1
Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 1
Hurlburt, Charles E. 1
Jesus Abbey (South Korea) 1
Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 1
Liddell, Eric, 1902-1945. 1
McCully, Theodore Edward, 1927-1956. 1
Mennonite Brethren Church. 1
North China American School (T'ung-hsien, China) 1
OMF International. 1
Philadelphia Bible Institute. 1
Philips, Martha H. 1
Prairie Bible Institute. 1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 1
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 1
Rift Valley Academy (Kijabe, Kenya) 1
Saint, Nathaniel, 1923-1956. 1
Shannon, Ralph E. 1
St. Michael's Theological College (Korea) 1
Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 1
Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 1
Stauffacher, John R. 1
Steely, Merle A. 1
Steely, Vera Mae. 1
Stony Brook School (Stony Brook, N.Y.) 1
Sudan Interior Mission. 1
Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928 1
Unevangelized Tribes Mission. 1
Wycliffe Bible Translators. 1
Zhongguo guo min dang. 1
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