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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 480 Oral History Interviews with Margaret L. Clapper
Collection
Identifier: CN 480
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Margaret L. Clapper (1912-2005), missionary with Africa Inland Mission in Belgian Congo/Zaire from 1939-1980. Topics covered in two sessions include her youth, conversion, Bible school education at Moody Bible Institute, missionary work in central Africa, Belgian administration of the Congo, work among pygmies, Zaire politics and government, independence of the country in 1960 and the Simba rebellion, transition from mission to national authority, singleness,...
Dates:
Created: 1993
Collection 424 Oral History Interviews with Ruth L. Maxwell
Collection
Identifier: CN 424
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Ruth Lillian Maxwell in which she talks about her family background, including her grandfather, L.E. Maxwell, founder of Prairie Bible Institute, and her parents, missionaries with Sudan Interior Mission (SIM) in Nigeria; Nigerian village life; experiences at boarding school; conversion to Christianity; spiritual development; education in Canada at Prairie Bible Institute; joining SIM; missions work in Liberia teaching the Bible and leading study groups for...
Dates:
Created: 1989
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 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 242 Oral History Interview with Ruth E. Hess
Collection
Identifier: CN 242
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Ruth Edna DeVelde Hess (1909-1997), a missionary with the Plymouth Brethren Church at Sakeji School for missionary children in Zambia. Topics discussed include: Hess' life as a child in Wheaton, Illinois, and education at Wheaton Academy and Wheaton College; marriage to Lyndon Roth Hess; calling to be teachers of missionary children; decision to go to Africa; their work at Sakeji School from 1932 to 1982; and descriptions of life and customs in Zambia among the...
Dates:
Created: 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 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 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
Found in:
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Helen Renich Papers.
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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- Boarding schools. 12
- Children of missionaries. 12
- Women 11
- Women missionaries. 11
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 10
- Missionaries. 10
- Conversion. 9
- Evangelistic work. 9
- Indigenous church administration 8
- Animism. 7
- Language in missionary work. 7
- Missionaries -- Training of. 7
- Tribes. 7
- Worship. 7
- Christian education. 6
- Culture shock. 6
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 6
- Catholic Church. 5
- Christian life. 5
- Christianity and culture. 5
- Education 5
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- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 5
- Missions -- China. 5
- Missions -- Finance. 5
- Sex role. 5
- Bible -- Translating. 4
- Bible. 4
- China -- History. 4
- Church and state. 4
- Church work with women. 4
- Missions -- Educational work. 4
- Bible colleges 3
- Boarding schools -- China. 3
- Boarding schools -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 3
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
- Children -- Conversion to Christianity. 3
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 3
- Church discipline. 3
- Communism -- China. 3
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- Fund raising. 3
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- Lay missionaries. 3
- Marriage. 3
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 3
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- Missions, Medical. 3
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- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 3
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- Presbyterians. 3
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- World War, 1939-1945. 3
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- Belief and doubt. 2
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
- Bible colleges -- Canada. 2
- Bible colleges. 2
- Children of missionaries -- China. 2
- Children. 2
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 2
- China. 2
- Chinese language. 2
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
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- College students in missionary work. 2
- College students. 2
- Communism. 2
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Canada. 2
- Family. 2
- Funeral rites and ceremonies. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- International relief. 2
- Lord's Supper. 2
- Medical care -- China. 2
- Medical care -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
- Missions -- Ecuador. 2
- Missions -- South Africa. 2
- Persecution. 2
- Racism. 2
- Radio in missionary work. 2
- Radio in religion. 2
- Rural churches. 2
- Sex role -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
- Shortwave radio. 2
- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 2
- Sunday schools. 2
- Syncretism (Religion). 2
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) 10
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 5
- Moody Bible Institute. 4
- Kuhn, John Becker. 3
- Prairie Bible Institute. 3
- Bell, James W. 2
- Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 2
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 2
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 2
- Kuhn, Isobel. 2
- OMF International. 2
- Advent Christian Church. 1
- Africa Inland Mission. 1
- Armerding, Hudson T. 1
- Bechtel, Paul M. (1957-1998) 1
- Becker, Carl K., Jr. 1
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 1
- Bokeleale, Jean B., 1919-2002. 1
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 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 Missions in Many Lands. 1
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 1
- Clapper, Margaret L. 1
- Cole, Curtis Lee, 1960- 1
- Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 1
- Cook, Ian H. 1
- Cook, Ruth E., 1931- 1
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 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
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 1
- Fisher, Walter, 1865-1935. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Francis. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Jennie. 1
- Folkerts, Fred C. 1
- Folkerts, Nancy. 1
- Fraser, James Outram, 1886-1938. 1
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 1
- Gripsholm (Ocean liner) 1
- Heimbach, Ernest E. 1
- Heimbach, Mertis B. 1
- Hess, Lyndon. 1
- Hess, Ruth E. 1
- Hunt, Bruce Finley, 1903-1992. 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
- Larson, Reuben. 1
- LeBar, Lois E. (Lois Emogene), 1907-1997. 1
- LeBar, Mary E. (Mary Evelyn), 1910- 1
- Leedy, John W. 1
- Liddell, Eric, 1902-1945. 1
- Maxwell, Ernest. 1
- Maxwell, Freeda. 1
- Maxwell, L. E. 1
- Maxwell, Ruth Lillian, 1955- 1
- Mennonite Brethren Church. 1
- Mixter, Russell L. 1
- Moravian Church. 1
- North American Baptist Conference. 1
- Philadelphia Bible Institute. 1
- Philips, Martha H. 1
- Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. 1
- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 1
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 1
- Renich-Meyers, Jill. 1
- Sakeji School (Zambia) 1
- Shannon, Ralph E. 1
- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 1
- Stam, Harry. 1
- Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 1
- Sudan Interior Mission. 1
- Summer Institute of Linguistics. 1
- Tenney, Merrill C. (Merrill Chapin), 1904-1985. 1
- Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928 1
- U.S. Center for World Mission 1
- Unevangelized Tribes Mission. 1
- West Suburban Hospital (Oak Park, Ill.) 1
- Wheaton Academy (Ill.) 1
- Wheaton Bible Church (Ill.) 1
- Winsor, Alice. 1
- Winsor, Earl. 1
- Wright, Gladys. 1
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 1
- Zhongguo guo min dang. 1 ∧ less
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