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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 314 Oral History Interview with Martha H. Philips
Collection
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 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 284 Oral History Interview with Gladys Wright
Collection
Identifier: CN 284
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Gladys Lyle Wright (1902-1994), in which she discusses her work as a teacher in Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo). Topics discussed include: Wright's family background, education at Wheaton College and Moody Bible Institute, her work as a missionary in the Belgian Congo for the Africa Inland Mission, memories of the Congolese people and culture, and her experiences at Wheaton when she was on the staff of the College after retriring from the mission...
Dates:
Created: 1984
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
Collection 477 Papers of Stanley R. Kline
Collection
Identifier: CN 477
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Stanley R. Kline and extensive photo albums, relating to Kline’s missionary service in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo) with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) from 1940 to 1977. Topics covered in interview include: his family background in Philadelphia, conversion, Percy Crawford's influence, evangelism in Philadelphia, rescue mission work, call to missions, his wife Carmel Anthony, his evangelism and educational work in the Congo between 1940 and...
Dates:
Created: 1930-1999
Collection 248 Papers of William J. Barnett
Collection
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
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
Collection 335 Papers of Ralph E. Shannon
Collection
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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- Children of missionaries. 11
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- Children. 2
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- Congo (Democratic Republic)--Social life and customs 2
- Economic and social conditions 2
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- Family. 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 2
- Great Britain -- Colonies. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 2
- Lay missionaries. 2
- Marriage. 2
- Medical care -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
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- Muslims. 2
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- Presbyterians. 2
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) 10
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 7
- Africa Inland Mission. 3
- Kuhn, John Becker. 3
- Africa Inland Church. 2
- Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 2
- Davis, Ralph T. 2
- Hurlburt, Charles E. 2
- Kuhn, Isobel. 2
- Moody Bible Institute. 2
- OMF International. 2
- Prairie Bible Institute. 2
- Stam, Harry. 2
- Advent Christian Church. 1
- Armerding, Hudson T. 1
- Barnett, Albert E. 1
- Barnett, Elma. 1
- Barnett, William John. 1
- Barnhouse, Donald Grey, 1895-1960. 1
- Bechtel, Paul M. (1957-1998) 1
- Bell, James W. 1
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 1
- Bokeleale, Jean B., 1919-2002. 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, Paul, 1928-1964. 1
- Carlson, Robert Dean. 1
- Catholic Church. 1
- China Inland Mission. 1
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 1
- Church of the Open Door (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 1
- Cook, Ian H. 1
- Cook, Ruth E., 1931- 1
- Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 1
- Dodds, Gilbert, 1918- 1
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 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 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, Billy, 1918-2018. 1
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 1
- Gripsholm (Ocean liner) 1
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 1
- Heimbach, Ernest E. 1
- Heimbach, Mertis B. 1
- Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 1
- Hunt, Bruce Finley, 1903-1992. 1
- Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. 1
- Jones, Clarence W. 1
- Jones, Howard O. 1
- Kent Academy (Jos, Nigeria) 1
- Kenyatta, Jomo. 1
- Kline, Carmel. 1
- Kline, Stanley R. 1
- Larson, Reuben. 1
- LeBar, Lois E. (Lois Emogene), 1907-1997. 1
- LeBar, Mary E. (Mary Evelyn), 1910- 1
- Liddell, Eric, 1902-1945. 1
- MacPherson, Merrill T. 1
- McCully, Theodore Edward, 1927-1956. 1
- Mennonite Brethren Church. 1
- Moravian Church. 1
- North American Baptist Conference. 1
- Paul, S. Austin. 1
- Philadelphia Bible Institute. 1
- Philips, Martha H. 1
- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 1
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 1
- Rethy Academy (Zaire) 1
- Rift Valley Academy (Kijabe, Kenya) 1
- Saint, Nathaniel, 1923-1956. 1
- Shannon, Ralph E. 1
- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 1
- Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 1
- Stauffacher, Florence. 1
- Stauffacher, John R. 1
- Steely, Merle A. 1
- Steely, Vera Mae. 1
- Stony Brook School (Stony Brook, N.Y.) 1
- Stough, Paul. 1
- Sudan Interior Mission. 1
- Summer Institute of Linguistics. 1
- Tenney, Merrill C. (Merrill Chapin), 1904-1985. 1
- U.S. Center for World Mission 1
- Unevangelized Tribes Mission. 1
- Van Dusen, George C. 1
- West Suburban Hospital (Oak Park, Ill.) 1
- Winsor, Alice. 1 ∧ less
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