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Collection 472 Oral History Interview with Paul A. Contento

 Collection
Identifier: CN 472
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Paul A. Contento in which he discusses his childhood, conversion, attendance at Moody Bible Institute, going to China in 1928 as a China Inland Mission worker, evangelistic work in Ningxia province (Inner Mongolia) and work among university students in southwest and northwest China, founding of the Inter-Varsity student movements in China, Singapore and Vietnam; Calvin Chao; the Sino-Japanese war; the communist takeover in China; founding of Singapore Bible...
Dates: Created: 19992

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 363 Papers of Ruth M. Mellis

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Identifier: CN 363
Scope and Contents Correspondence, prayer letters, clippings, photographs, oral history interviews and audio tapes of missionary conference relating to the missionary career of Ruth M. Mellis. Materials document her work among orphans and students in Greece, the Greek Bible Institute, the Greek language, and Greater Europe Mission; oral history interviews describe her childhood, attendance at Wheaton College, work with Near East Relief in Siros, teaching public schools in the St. Louis area, teaching at the...
Dates: Created: 1928-1987

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 361 Oral History Interviews with C. René Padilla

 Collection
Identifier: CN 361
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with René Padilla, in which he discusses his childhood, family, evangelism in Colombia and Ecuador, persecution by Catholics in Colombia, his education at Wheaton College, work among university students with International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) in Latin America, evangelical theological education and liberation theology, the 1974 Lausanne Congress and covenant, the ministry of his church in Buenos Aires among drug addicts and slum dwellers, and the...
Dates: Created: 1987

David H. Adeney Papers.

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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 134 Papers of Marian Chapman

 Collection
Identifier: CN 134
Scope and Contents

Oral history interviews, photographs, and prayer letters relating to the ministry of Marian Gold Chapman, a missionary with Latin America Mission in Cartagena, Colombia (1957-1975); Bogota, New Jersey (1975-1977), and Coral Gables, Florida (1977-1979).

Dates: Created: 1980, 1995

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 311 Papers of Charles J. Guth

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Identifier: CN 311
Scope and Contents Water color paintings and oral history interviews with Charles J. Guth, relating to Guth’s missionary work in Africa with the Sudan Interior Mission. Topics covered by the interviews include: Guth’s education at Wheaton College, preparation for the mission field as a worker with Sudan Interior Mission, his life, work, and contacts as a missionary among the Koma and Maban people of the Sudan; the culture of these peoples; the effect of Sudan's independence on the church in the Sudan,...
Dates: Created: 1976-1985

David M. Howard, Sr., Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 484
Scope and Contents Four oral history interviews, paper records, and photographs documenting David Howard's life and work with Latin American Mission, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and World Evangelical Fellowship. Topics covered in the interviews include Howard's childhood, Christian faith, education at Wheaton College, work as a missionary and administrator with Latin America Mission; missions director for Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, director of the 1980 Consultation on World Evangelization; and...
Dates: Created: 1968-1993

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Evangelistic work. 9
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Missionaries. 8
Conversion. 7
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 7
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Church and state. 6
Church work with students. 6
College students in missionary work. 6
College students. 6
Missionaries -- Training of. 6
Communism. 5
Evangelicalism. 5
Indigenous church administration 5
Women 5
Women -- Religious life. 5
World War, 1939-1945. 5
Christianity and culture. 4
Colombia 4
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Missions -- China. 4
Missions -- Educational work. 4
Missions -- Finance. 4
Persecution -- China. 4
Radio in missionary work. 4
Religious institutions. 4
Women missionaries. 4
Catholic Church. 3
Children of missionaries. 3
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 3
China -- History -- 1949- 3
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 3
China -- History. 3
Christian education. 3
Christian leadership. 3
Church and social problems. 3
Church work with women. 3
College students -- Religious life. 3
College students -- United States 3
College students -- United States -- Religious life. 3
Colombia -- Religion. 3
Evangelicalism -- United States. 3
Evangelistic work -- China. 3
Evangelistic work -- United States. 3
Mass media in missionary work. 3
Medical care 3
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
Missions -- Colombia. 3
Missions to Muslims. 3
Persecution -- Colombia. 3
Presbyterians. 3
Theological seminaries. 3
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 3
Armenians. 2
Catholic Church -- Colombia. 2
China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976. 2
Christian life. 2
Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
Christian literature. 2
Church and state -- China. 2
Church development, New. 2
Church work with military personnel. 2
Church work with refugees. 2
Church work with students -- China. 2
Church work with students -- United States. 2
Colombia -- Description and travel. 2
Ecuador 2
Evangelistic work -- Colombia. 2
Evangelistic work -- Congresses 2
International relief. 2
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 2
Language in missionary work. 2
Mass media in religion. 2
Medical care -- China. 2
Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
Missions -- Ethiopia. 2
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
Missions -- Singapore. 2
Missions. 2
Muslims. 2
Organizational change. 2
Pentecostalism. 2
Presbyterian Church -- Missions. 2
Presbyterian Church. 2
Radio in religion. 2
Rural missions -- China. 2
Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 2
Theology 2
Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 2
Tribes. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Faculty. 2
African Americans -- Missions. 1
African Americans. 1
Anglicans. 1
Animism -- Sudan. 1
Animism. 1
Assemblies of God -- Missions. 1
Bahai Faith. 1
Baptism. 1
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Wheaton College (Ill.) 7
Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 4
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) 4
Woods, C. Stacey, 1909-1983. 4
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 3
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Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 3
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 3
World Evangelical Fellowship. 3
Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 2
Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 2
Chao, Calvin. 2
China Inland Mission. 2
China Inter-Varsity Evangelical Christian Students Fellowship. 2
Christian and Missionary Alliance. 2
Contento, Paul A. 2
Dow, Elsie Storrs. 2
Evangelism-in-Depth. 2
Fellowship of Evangelical Students (Singapore) 2
HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 2
Houghton, Frank, 1894-1972. 2
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 2
Latin America Mission. 2
OMF International. 2
Page, Isaac. 2
Stott, John R. W. 2
Sudan Interior Mission. 2
Tenney, Merrill C. (Merrill Chapin), 1904-1985. 2
Adeney, Ruth W. 1
Adeyemo, Tokunboh. 1
Alexander, John W. (John Wesley), 1918-2002. 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
Assemblies of God. 1
Association of Christians Ministering Among Internationals. 1
Bacon, Daniel W. 1
Barnhouse, Donald Grey, 1895-1960. 1
Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 1
Berg, Clayton L., 1928- 1
Billy Graham Center. Institute for Chinese Studies. 1
Bosshardt, Rudolf Alfred. 1
Carlson, Margaret Johanna. 1
Carlson, Robert Dean. 1
Central American Mission. 1
Ch'eng, Marcus, 1884-1964. 1
Chandapilla, P. T. 1
Chandler, Rosemary Joy. 1
Chao, Jonathan. 1
Chapman, Marian Gold. 1
China Graduate School of Theology. 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
Comunidad Latinoamericano de Ministerios Evangelicos. 1
Contento, Maida. 1
Coptic Church. 1
Discipleship Training Centre (Singapore) 1
Dowsett, Dick. 1
Draper, Ben. 1
Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956. 1
English Language Institute/China. 1
Escobar, Samuel E., 1934- 1
European Christian Mission. 1
Evangelical China Office. 1
Evangelical Church of Iran. 1
Evangelical Confederation of Colombia. 1
Evangelism Explosion, Inc. 1
Fellowship of Evangelical Students (Malaysia) 1
Fenton, Horace L. 1
First Asian Student Missionary Convention (1973 : Baguio, Philippines) 1
Ford, Leighton. 1
Fowler, Ernie. 1
Fraternidad Teologica Latinoamericana. 1
Friends of China Fellowship. 1
Fung, Raymond. 1
Gates, Alan Frederick, 1931- 1
Girao, William B. 1
Glasser, Arthur F. (Arthur Frederick), 1914- 1
Glover, Robert Hall, 1871-1947. 1
Graham, Ruth Bell. 1
Gray, James M. 1
Greater Europe Mission. 1
Guinness, Henry, 1908- 1
Guth, Charles J. 1
Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975. 1
Hamilton, Pauline G. 1
Harrison, Norman B. (Norman Baldwin), 1874-1960. 1
Hawkes, Belle, 1854-1919. 1
Hawkes, James Wood. 1
Hess, Esther N. 1
Hess, Lawrence. 1
Hoagland, Dave. 1
Hoste, Dixon Edward, 1861-1946. 1
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