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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 255 Oral History Interview of Helen Frame
Collection
Identifier: CN 255
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Helen Nowack Frame (1908-1999) in which she discusses her childdhood growing up in China, decision to become a missionary for Overseas Missionary Fellowship, education at Wheaton College, years of service in China, culture and political events in China; leaving China in 1951 with her husband Raymond and their children and resettlement in the Philippines, teaching at Faith Academy, development of the Bible Institute, return and activities in Wheaton. The time...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Collection 680 Papers of the Almond Family
Collection
Identifier: CN 680
Scope and Contents
Diaries and oral history interviews documenting the work of Overseas Missionary Fellowship (China Inland Mission) workers Louis Almond, his first wife Stella and his second wife Helen in China (1949-1951), Thailand and the United States. Helen’s interview also describes the activities of the United States office of OMF, where she worked for many years.
Dates:
1949-1951, 2015-2016
Collection 535 Oral History Interview with Mona Joyce
Collection
Identifier: CN 535
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Mona Miller Joyce (1912-2000) in which she describes her childhood and youth, conversion and spiritual development, call to missionary work, family, work in China with China Inland Mission, husband Raymond Joyce, the Communist period in China and CIM's expulsion from the country, co-workers Dr. Jessie McDonald and Mabel Soltau, Pentecostalism, relations among missionaries, her role as a woman missionary, outreach to Muslims, their work in the Persian Gulf with...
Dates:
Created: 1996
Collection 464 Oral History Interviews with Eileen J. Kuhn
Collection
Identifier: CN 464
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Eileen J. Kuhn in which she describes her family background; her conversion to Christianity; her medical training as a nurse; life at Moody Bible Institute in the late 1940s; China Inland Mission at about the same time; her call to foreign missions; her work at the CIM retirement home in Toronto; descriptions of John and Isobel Kuhn; work among the Lisu people in Thailand and Burma; translation of the Bible into the Lisu language; contacts with a former...
Dates:
Created: 1992-1994
Collection 286 Oral History Interview with Marilyn J. Suttie
Collection
Identifier: CN 286
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Marilyn Joy Suttie in which she describes her work as a missionary in Cameroon with the United Presbyterian Ecumenical Mission. Topics discussed include: Suttie's childhood in China, education at Wheaton College, and short-term missionary work, mainly teaching missionary children in Cameroon. Also includes information on the Cameroon church, polygamy, Muslims in Cameroon, and medical care, and other political, social, and religious issues in Africa. The time...
Dates:
Created: 1984
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 287 Oral History Interview with Margaret Crossett
Collection
Identifier: CN 287
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Margaret Rice Elliott Crossett in which she describes her childhood with her missionary parents in China, her education at Wheaton College, and missionary career with her husband, Vincent Crossett, in China and Taiwan with China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship (1929-1948, 1961-1973). Topics discussed include Crossett's childhood in China; description of Chinese indigenous worship practices and syncretism in Chinese religious culture; Crossett's...
Dates:
Created: 1984-1986
Collection 417 Papers of Dick Springer
Collection
Identifier: CN 417
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview and one prayer letter relating to the ministry of Charles Oliver “Dick” Springer, missionary with Overseas Missionary Fellowship in China and Japan from 1937-1996.Series: Audio TapesOral history interview with Dick Springer in which he describes his family and their missionary interest and involvement, conversion, education (at Whitman College, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Moody Bible Institute), his involvement...
Dates:
Created: 1937-1989
Collection 288 Oral History Interview with Vincent L. Crossett
Collection
Identifier: CN 288
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Vincent Leroy Crossett (1907-1999) in which he describes his education at Wheaton and Westminster Seminary, missionary work with China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship in China and Taiwan, and pastoral work in a local church in Hawaii. Topics discussed include Crossett's education at Wheaton College and Westminster Seminary; decision to join China Inland Mission; language school; evangelism methods; characteristics of the Chinese church; CIM's...
Dates:
Created: 1984-1986
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
Collection 249 Papers of Myron and Elizabeth Harrison
Collection
Identifier: CN 249
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, prayer letters, and photographs related to the missionary service of Myron and Elizabeth Harrison with Overseas Missionary Fellowship in the Philippines from 1967-1990.Series: Audio TapesOne oral history interview each with Myron and Elizabeth Harrison. Topics discussed in the interviews include missionary call, appointment and assignments in the Philippines with Overseas Missionary Fellowship, family life, the...
Dates:
Created: 1967-1993
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 187 Papers of Eleanor R. Elliott
Collection
Identifier: CN 187
Scope and Contents
Family correspondence, prayer letters, brochures, newspaper clippings, prayer cards and letters from other missionaries, photographs, slides, negatives, journals and diaries, and eight interviews concerning Elliott's childhood in China, mission work with China Inland Mission (now Overseas Missionary Fellowship) in China and the Philippines, her experiences as an evangelist and teacher, her life in China during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945, and the civil war that followed. Her retirement...
Dates:
Created: 1910-1988
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- Children of missionaries. 13
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- Missions -- China. 12
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 11
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 10
- Communism -- China. 10
- Women -- Religious life. 10
- Women missionaries. 10
- Communism. 9
- Language in missionary work. 9
- Missionaries -- Training of. 9
- Women 9
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 8
- China -- History. 8
- Christianity and culture. 8
- Evangelistic work -- China. 8
- Evangelistic work. 8
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 6
- Bible. 6
- Christian education. 6
- Conversion. 6
- Family. 6
- Indigenous church administration 6
- Christian education -- China. 5
- Culture shock. 5
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 5
- Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 5
- Missions. 5
- Persecution -- China. 5
- Tribes. 5
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 4
- China -- History -- 1949- 4
- China. 4
- Chinese language. 4
- Missionaries' spouses. 4
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 4
- Rural missions. 4
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 4
- World War, 1939-1945. 4
- Bible -- Translating. 3
- Boarding schools. 3
- Buddhists -- China. 3
- Buddhists. 3
- Catholic Church. 3
- China -- Description and travel. 3
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- Chinese -- Missions. 3
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- Christian literature. 3
- Church development, New. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Philippines. 3
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 3
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- Medical care -- China. 3
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
- Missions -- Philippines. 3
- Missions -- Singapore. 3
- Missions -- Taiwan. 3
- Refugees 3
- Refugees -- China. 3
- Rural churches -- China. 3
- Sex role. 3
- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 3
- Animism. 2
- Bible colleges 2
- Bible colleges -- United States. 2
- Boarding schools -- China. 2
- Children of missionaries -- China. 2
- China -- Church history -- 20th century. 2
- China -- Church history. 2
- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 2
- Christian education -- Philippines. 2
- Christian education -- Taiwan. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Christian martyrs -- China. 2
- Christian martyrs. 2
- Church and state. 2
- Church growth. 2
- Church work with refugees -- China. 2
- Church work with refugees. 2
- Crime and criminals 2
- Crime and criminals -- China. 2
- Education 2
- Evangelistic work -- Thailand. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Philippines. 2
- Indigenous church administration -- Taiwan. 2
- Interpersonal conflict. 2
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
- Missions -- Thailand. 2
- Missions to Buddhists -- China. 2
- Missions to Buddhists. 2
- Missions, Medical. 2
- Muslims. 2
- Opium trade -- Thailand. 2
- Organizational change. 2
- Pentecostalism -- China. 2
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) 8
- China Inland Mission. 6
- Moody Bible Institute. 6
- Kuhn, John Becker. 4
- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 4
- Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 4
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 3
- Crossett, Margaret E. 3
- Hoste, Dixon Edward, 1861-1946. 3
- Zhongguo guo min dang. 3
- Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 2
- Contento, Paul A. 2
- Crossett, Vincent. 2
- Elliott, Eleanor Edwards. 2
- Elliott, Ruth, 1908- 2
- Elliott, Walter Scott. 2
- Glasser, Arthur F. (Arthur Frederick), 1914- 2
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 2
- Houghton, Frank, 1894-1972. 2
- Kane, J. Herbert. 2
- Kuhn, Isobel. 2
- Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 2
- Straw, Darien A. 2
- Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 1
- Adeney, Ruth W. 1
- Advent Christian Church. 1
- Almond, Helen Sutherland. 1
- Almond, Louis W. 1
- Almond, Stella Bills. 1
- Ambassadors for Christ (Allentown, Pa.) 1
- American Bible Society. 1
- Anderson, Helen, 1909-2004. 1
- Anderson, Ian Rankin. 1
- Anderson, Peter. 1
- Armitage, Carolyn. 1
- Association of Central Thailand Churches. 1
- Association of Christians Ministering Among Internationals. 1
- Bacon, Daniel W. 1
- Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 1
- Bible Institute of the Philippines (Valenzuela, Philippines) 1
- Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship. 1
- Billy Graham Center. Institute for Chinese Studies. 1
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 1
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 1
- Bosshardt, Rudolf Alfred. 1
- Ch'eng, Marcus, 1884-1964. 1
- Chandapilla, P. T. 1
- Chandler, Rosemary Joy. 1
- Chao, Calvin. 1
- Chao, Jonathan. 1
- China Graduate School of Theology. 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
- Christian Medical Society. 1
- Chua, Wee Hian, 1939- 1
- Chung, Derek. 1
- Chʻêng, Marcus. 1
- Culbertson, William, 1905-1971. 1
- Discipleship Training Centre (Singapore) 1
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
- Dowsett, Dick. 1
- Draper, Ben. 1
- Egypt General Mission. 1
- Embery, Doris. 1
- Embery, William James. 1
- English Language Institute/China. 1
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 1
- Evangelical China Office. 1
- Faith Academy (Quezon City, Philippines) 1
- Fellowship of Evangelical Students (Malaysia) 1
- Fellowship of Evangelical Students (Singapore) 1
- Fellowship of Faith for Muslims. 1
- First Asian Student Missionary Convention (1973 : Baguio, Philippines) 1
- Fitzwilliam, Francis. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Jennie. 1
- Fort Wayne Bible College (Ind.) 1
- Frame, Helen. 1
- Frame, Raymond. 1
- Fraser, James Outram, 1886-1938. 1
- Friends of China Fellowship. 1
- Frost, Henry Weston, 1858- 1
- Fung, Raymond. 1
- Gates, Alan Frederick, 1931- 1
- Gemmell, Nina Eleanor. 1
- Girao, William B. 1
- Gittisarn, Boon Mark. 1
- Glover, Robert Hall, 1871-1947. 1
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 1
- Griffin, Herbert M. 1
- Guinness, Henry, 1908- 1
- Hamilton, Pauline G. 1
- Harrison, Elizabeth Laura. 1
- Harrison, Myron S. 1
- Heimbach, Ernest E. 1
- Heimbach, Mertis B. 1
- Houghton, Stanley, 1881-1913. 1 ∧ less
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