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Collection 630 Oral History Interview with Arthur M. Barnett
Collection
Identifier: CN 630
Scope and Contents
One oral history interview with Arthur Malcom Barnett, in which he describes his parents’ work as missionaries with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) among the Maasai people in Kenya, the development of Christianity in East Africa; traditional Maasai culture, his experiences aboard the Zamzam in 1941, and different aspects of medical missions. Other topics discussed include different AIM missionaries, including the Stauffachers, Davises, and Collins; the effect of World War II, leprosy treatment...
Dates:
2006
Collection 672 Oral History Interviews with Jeanne Blumhagen.
Collection
Identifier: CN 672
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Jeanne Bourland Blumhagen in which she describes her family background; effects of the Great Depression; conversion and spiritual development; education at Whitworth University, University of Chicago, and University of Illinois; World War II; medical missionary service in Afghanistan with the American Embassy in Kabul, Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship (BMMF), Medical Assistance Program (MAP), and later Interserve, and serving on the Wheaton College Board...
Dates:
2013-2017
Collection 487 Oral History Interview with Kathryn M. Feldi
Collection
Identifier: CN 487
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Kathryn Marie Hess Feldi (1912-2015) in which she describes her parents, who were Africa Inland Mission workers in Tanzania; mother's conversion at a Billy Sunday campaign; her own attendance at Wheaton College; memories of Billy Graham as a college student; the Wheaton revival of 1943; favorite professors; and the effect of World War II on the Wheaton campus. The time period covered by the interviews is 1922 to 1993.Kathryn Marie Hess Feldi was...
Dates:
Created: 1993
Collection 169 Oral History Interviews with Harold P. Adolph
Collection
Identifier: CN 169
Scope and Contents
Oral History Interview with Harold Paul Adolph, in which he discusses his boyhood in China as the son of missionaries with China Inland Mission, conditions in China, his education at Wheaton College, medical education at the University of Pennsylvania, decision to become a missionary, and his ministry in Ethiopia as a medical missionary in African with Sudan Interior Mission; American missions in Ethiopia; family life on the mission field, and work with the Christian Medical Society. The...
Dates:
Created: 1981
Collection 394 Oral History Interview with Ruth W. Adeney
Collection
Identifier: CN 394
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Ruth Winifred Temple Adeney (1912-1911) in which she describes her youth; spiritual growth; education at Northwestern Schools; call to missionary work with China Inland Mission; her missionary experience; her husband, David Adeney; her work with with China Inland Mission in rural areas of Henan Province (1934-1941); and her husband's work with university students in Nanking (1946-1948) and Shanghai (1949- 1950). Other topics discussed include the impact of war...
Dates:
Created: 1988
Collection 075 Oral History Interviews with Elizabeth Warner
Collection
Identifier: CN 075
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Elizabeth Howard Warner (1912-2000) in which she describes her childhood in the Canton Province of China as a daughter of missionaries, Canton Christian College where her father worked, studies and personalities at Wheaton College, her mission work among girls with Door of Hope Mission in Canton and Hong Kong, Chinese education, economic and social conditions, religion (particularly Buddhism), politics and government, the impact of China's war with Japan, and...
Dates:
Created: 1978
Collection 293 Oral History Interview with Melvin D. Suttie
Collection
Identifier: CN 293
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Melvin David Suttie (1912-2006) in which he discusses his childhood, Christian growth, education at Wheaton College and Biblical Seminary in New York and Omaha Presbyterian Seminary, missionary work with China Inland Mission (1940-1950), work among university students, persecution, evangelistic work among the Chinese population and Nationalist troops, his wife Mary's work among women, their children, church and state relations in China, the impact of the...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Collection 092 Ephemera of Robert B. Ekvall
Collection
Identifier: CN 092
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, correspondence, photographs, and a manuscript that describe Robert B. Ekvall's education at Wheaton College, work as a missionary in China and Tibet, and military and diplomatic activities during World War II and after in China and Southeast Asia.
Dates:
Created: 1933-1980
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 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 461 Oral History Interviews with John D. Ellison
Collection
Identifier: CN 461
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with John David Ellison (1925-1998) in which he talks about his parents' work as missionaries for the Christian and Missionary Alliance (CMA) in French Indochina (now Vietnam) between 1924 and 1940; his own missionary training at Nyack Institute; his and his wife's work in Thailand among Cambodians from 1950 through 1980; and his work in the United States among Cambodian refugees. Other topics discussed include internment by the Japanese in December 1941; methods of...
Dates:
Created: 1992
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 325 Oral History Interview with Donald W. Berry
Collection
Identifier: CN 325
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview in which Berry discusses his conversion, education at Wheaton College, and his work as a pilot and administrator for Mission Aviation Fellowship in Honduras and Southeast Asia. Other topics discussed include. Berry’s service in the Army during World War II, his views on pacifism, the origins of Mission Aviation Fellowship, challenges of MAF, and the effect of life on the mission field on Berry’s family.Donald Berry was interviewed by Robert Shuster on...
Dates:
Created: 1986
Collection 468 Oral History Interviews with Elizabeth C. Stough
Collection
Identifier: CN 468
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Elizabeth Quackenbush Stough (1913-2009) in which she discusses her parents, childhood, education, conversion, attendance at Moody Bible Institute, call to be a missionary, joining Africa Inland Mission, travel to Africa, work in French Equatorial Africa, evangelistic field trips, her husband Paul Stough, her work among women in the Belgian Congo, the growth of the Africa Inland Church, the independence of the Congo, the Congolese civil war and Simba uprising,...
Dates:
Created: 1992-1993
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
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
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 387 Papers of William M. Miller
Collection
Identifier: CN 387
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and transcripts with William M. Miller in which he describes his education at Princeton, Christian faith, and work as a Presbyterian missionary to Iran from 1919 to 1962. Besides descriptions of his evangelistic, pastoral, and educational work, he also describes many aspects of Iranian and Islamic society. Most of the transcripts are of interviews done for the Presbyterian Historical Society.
Dates:
Created: 1979-1988
Collection 492 Papers of William A. Drury
Collection
Identifier: CN 492
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, audio recordings, brochures, photographs, and a video tape relating to the ministry of William A. Drury, evangelist and youth worker with Percy Crawford, Youtharama, and Youth Haven.
Dates:
Created: 1962-1996
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
Collection 078 Papers of Corrie ten Boom
Collection
Identifier: CN 078
Scope and Contents
Papers of Dutch watchmaker, evangelist, author, and Christian aid worker Corrie ten Boom. The collection includes information on her father Casper ten Boom, her imprisonment in Ravensbrück concentration camp during World War II, her work among refugees after the war, her travels as an evangelist, the work of her two foundations, and the production of the film The Hiding Place. The collection includes audio tapes, correspondence, a film, notebooks, photos, photo albums, and video tapes.
Dates:
Created: 1902-1997; Majority of material found within 1902 - 1983
Collection 186 Papers of M. Douglas Hursh
Collection
Identifier: CN 186
Scope and Contents
Two oral history interviews, manuscript material, photographs, and memorabilia relatingn to Marion Douglas Hursh's work with Sudan Interior Mission's Kano Eye Hospital, Kano in Nigeria from 1942-1962. Topics covered concern Hursh's education and work as a medical missionary at the Sudan Interior Mission's Kano Eye Hospital in Kano, Nigeria, as well as various aspects of church life and mission activity in Nigeria. Events described in the interviews cover the time period from 1904 to...
Dates:
Created: 1904-1982
Collection 279 Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Evans
Collection
Identifier: CN 279
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Elizabeth Morrell Evans (1899-1976) in which she discusses her childhood; education at Wheaton College; work with J. Elwin Wright; her Christian education activities; the development of the New England Fellowship, the National Association of Evangelicals, and the World Evangelical Fellowship; and her work as a missionary in Taiwan. The time period covered by the interviews is 1899-1976.Elizabeth Evans was interviewed by Robert Shuster on October 8,...
Dates:
Created: 1984-1985
Collection 414 Papers of Wade T. Coggins
Collection
Identifier: CN 414
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, papers and speech manuscripts relating to the ministry of Wade T. Coggins, Christian worker with the Christian and Missionary Alliance and the Evangelical Foreign Mission Association.
Dates:
Created: 1964-1990
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- Evangelistic work. 21
- Children of missionaries. 19
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 18
- Missionaries. 18
- Conversion. 16
- Church and state. 14
- Missionaries -- Training of. 14
- Christian education. 11
- Evangelistic work -- China. 11
- Indigenous church administration 11
- Missions -- China. 11
- Women 11
- Women -- Religious life. 11
- Women missionaries. 11
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 10
- China -- History. 10
- Language in missionary work. 10
- Missions -- Educational work. 9
- Persecution. 9
- Communism -- China. 8
- Communism. 8
- Culture shock. 8
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 7
- Christianity and culture. 7
- Church work with women. 7
- Evangelicalism. 7
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 7
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 7
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 7
- Missionaries' spouses. 7
- Rural missions. 7
- Sex role. 7
- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 7
- Tribes. 7
- Boarding schools. 6
- Medical care 6
- Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 6
- Missions, Medical. 6
- Persecution -- China. 6
- Presbyterian Church -- Missions. 6
- Bible colleges 5
- Bible. 5
- Buddhists. 5
- Catholic Church. 5
- Christian literature. 5
- Church and social problems. 5
- Church work with students. 5
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 5
- Missions -- Finance. 5
- Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 5
- Presbyterian Church. 5
- Worship. 5
- Animism. 4
- Children. 4
- China -- History -- 1949- 4
- China -- Religion. 4
- Christian leadership. 4
- Christian life. 4
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 4
- Church work with children. 4
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 4
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 4
- Medical care -- China. 4
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
- Missions to Buddhists. 4
- Missions to Muslims. 4
- Missions. 4
- Muslims. 4
- Pentecostalism. 4
- Presbyterians. 4
- Refugees 4
- Religious institutions. 4
- Revivals. 4
- Rural churches. 4
- Rural missions -- China. 4
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 4
- Belief and doubt. 3
- Bible -- Translating. 3
- Bible colleges -- United States. 3
- Boarding schools -- China. 3
- Buddhism. 3
- Buddhists -- China. 3
- Children of missionaries -- China. 3
- Chinese -- Missions. 3
- Chinese. 3
- Christian education -- United States. 3
- Christian martyrs -- China. 3
- Christian martyrs. 3
- Church and state -- China. 3
- Church and state -- United States. 3
- Church growth. 3
- Church work with military personnel. 3
- Church work with refugees. 3
- Church work with students -- United States. 3
- Church work with women -- China. 3
- Family. 3
- Fund raising. 3
- Intercultural communication. 3
- Mass media in religion. 3 ∧ less
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- Dutch; Flemish 1
- Names
- Wheaton College (Ill.) 15
- China Inland Mission. 6
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 6
- Moody Bible Institute. 6
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 5
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 5
- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 5
- Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 5
- OMF International. 4
- Straw, Darien A. 4
- Zhongguo guo min dang. 4
- Christian Medical Society. 3
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 3
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 3
- Princeton Theological Seminary. 3
- World Evangelical Fellowship. 3
- Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 2
- Adeney, Ruth W. 2
- Adolph, Harold Paul. 2
- Africa Inland Church. 2
- American Bible Society. 2
- Barnett, Erik S. 2
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 2
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 2
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 2
- Buker, Raymond B., 1899-1992. 2
- Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 2
- Davis, Ralph T. 2
- Glover, Robert Hall, 1871-1947. 2
- Gospel Recordings, Inc. 2
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 2
- Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. 2
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 2
- Kane, J. Herbert. 2
- Kane, Winnifred Mary Shepherd, 1912- 2
- Kuhn, Isobel. 2
- Kuhn, John Becker. 2
- Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 2
- Machen, J. Gresham (John Gresham), 1881-1937. 2
- McGavran, Donald A. (Donald Anderson), 1897-1990. 2
- McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 2
- National Association of Evangelicals. 2
- Ockenga, Harold John, 1905-1985. 2
- Riley, W. B. (William Bell), 1861-1947. 2
- Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 2
- Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions. 2
- Sudan Interior Mission. 2
- Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 2
- Taylor, Clyde W. (Clyde Willis), 1904-1988. 2
- Woods, C. Stacey, 1909-1983. 2
- Wright, J. Elwin. 2
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 2
- Wyrtzen, Jack, 1913-1996. 2
- Zwemer, Samuel Marinus, 2
- Advent Christian Church. 1
- Afghan Institute of Technology. 1
- Africa Inland Mission. 1
- Ahlman Academy (Kabul, Afghanistan) 1
- Alley, Rewi, 1897-1987. 1
- Ambassadors for Christ (Allentown, Pa.) 1
- American Council of Christian Churches. 1
- American Leprosy Missions. 1
- Anderson, Helen, 1909-2004. 1
- Anderson, Ian Rankin. 1
- Anderson, Peter. 1
- Andrew, Brother. 1
- Armitage, Carolyn. 1
- Assemblies of God. 1
- Association of Christians Ministering Among Internationals. 1
- Association of Church Missions Committees. 1
- Association of Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar. 1
- Ayer, William Ward. 1
- Bacon, Daniel W. 1
- Barnett, Arthur M., 1910-2014. 1
- Barnett, William John. 1
- Becker, Carl K., Jr. 1
- Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 1
- Berry, Donald W. 1
- Berry, Raymond, 1933- 1
- Bethel Bible Institute (Armenia, Colombia) 1
- Billy Graham Center. Institute for Chinese Studies. 1
- Bingham, Rowland V., 1872-1942. 1
- Blaine, Harriet Gertrude. 1
- Blanchard, J. L. (Julia L.) 1
- Blumhagen, Jeanne, 1923- 1
- Blumhagen, Rex. 1
- Bole, Simeon James, 1875- 1
- Bolten, John, 1920- 1
- Booth, F. Carlton. 1
- Bosshardt, Rudolf Alfred. 1
- Central American Mission. 1
- Ch'eng, Marcus, 1884-1964. 1
- Chandapilla, P. T. 1
- Chandler, Rosemary Joy. 1
- Chao, Calvin. 1
- Chao, Jonathan. 1
- Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
- Chiang, May-ling Soong, 1897-2003. 1
- China Graduate School of Theology. 1
- China Inter-Varsity Evangelical Christian Students Fellowship. 1 ∧ less
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