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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 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 470 Oral History Interview with Sadie Custer

 Collection
Identifier: CN 470
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Sadie Custer (1911-2007) in which she discusses her childhood, conversion, education at Moody Bible Institute, joining the China Inland Mission, arrival in China in 1936, the Chinese language, work in Shensi province, Bible teaching, transition from missionary to Chinese leadership, the Three Self Movement, the Communist revolution in China and its effect on missions, the Sino-Japanese Conflict, work in Malaysia among Chinese, living in an area in Malaysia...
Dates: Created: 1992

Collection 266 Oral History Interview with Ruth Sundquist

 Collection
Identifier: CN 266
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Ruth Sundquist in which she describes her education at Moody Bible Institute, decision to become a missionary, work first in Kentucky home missions as a Christian education worker with the Evangelical Free Church and then her missionary career in China and Hong Kong between 1947 and 1982 as an administrator for a Sunday School and orphanage. Other topics discussed include: language school in China, Chinese attitudes toward the Nationalists, Communists, Americans...
Dates: Created: 1984

Collection 164 Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Small

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Identifier: CN 164
Scope and Contents

Oral history interview with Elizabeth Stair Small in which she describes her missionary experiences in China between the earliest communist revolutions; includes customs, evangelizing methods, assistance of Chinese Christians in areas of central China; post-war pastoring in the U.S. The time period covered by the interviews is 1904-1980.

Elizabeth Small was interviewed by Robert Shuster on October 28, 1980 at the Billy Graham Center Archives at Wheaton College.

Dates: Created: 1980

Collection 417 Papers of Dick Springer

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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 055 Papers of Otto F. Schoerner

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Identifier: CN 055
Scope and Contents

Papers of Otto Frederick Schoerner a Wheaton College alumnus and missionary with China Inland Mission in Sinkiang, Honan, and Kangsu Provinces of China from 1931-1951. Collection includes an oral history interview, correspondence, autobiography, and photographs.

Dates: Created: 1949-2006

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 182 Papers of J. Herbert and Winnifred Kane

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Identifier: CN 182
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and curriculum material from James Herbert Kane and Winnifred Mary (Shepherd) Kane's missiology courses, and three oral history interviews. Materials document the Kanes' missionary work in China and Dr. Kane's teaching in the U.S.  Events described in the interviews cover the time period from 1932 to 1950.

Dates: Created: 1934-1987

Collection 057 Papers of Susan Bartel

 Collection
Identifier: CN 057
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews, negatives, and photographs relating to Susan Bartel's service with the China Mennonite Mission Society for over 20 years in the Shantung Province of China. Topics covered by the interviews include: Bartel's youth, conversion to Christianity, education, marriage to Loyal Bartel, and mission work in China; World War II; Japanese occupation of China; arrest and imprisonment of Loyal; life under the Chinese communists after World War II, Loyal’s imprisonment and Susan’s...
Dates: Created: 1932-1979

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Language in missionary work. 6
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Christianity and culture. 4
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Catholic Church. 1
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Children of missionaries -- China. 1
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China -- Church history -- 20th century. 1
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China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976. 1
China -- Politics and government. 1
Christian education -- Philippines. 1
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Christian education -- United States. 1
Christian education of adults. 1
Christian education of children. 1
Christian giving. 1
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Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 1
Christian literature. 1
Christianity and culture -- China. 1
Church and social problems. 1
Church discipline. 1
Church finance. 1
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OMF International. 6
Zhongguo guo min dang. 6
China Inland Mission. 5
Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 3
Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 3
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Glover, Robert Hall, 1871-1947. 2
Houghton, Frank, 1894-1972. 2
Kane, J. Herbert. 2
Kane, Winnifred Mary Shepherd, 1912- 2
Schoerner, Otto Frederick. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) 2
Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 1
Advent Christian Church. 1
Barrington College. 1
Bartel, Loyal. 1
Bartel, Susan Schultz. 1
Bible Institute of the Philippines (Valenzuela, Philippines) 1
Borden Memorial Hospital (Lanchow, China) 1
Bosshardt, Rudolf Alfred. 1
Chao, Calvin. 1
Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 1
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
China Inter-Varsity Evangelical Christian Students Fellowship. 1
China Mennonite Mission Society. 1
Christian and Missionary Alliance. 1
Contento, Maida. 1
Contento, Paul A. 1
Custer, Sadie. 1
Evangelical Free Church of America. 1
Evangelical Mennonite Brethren Church. 1
Fellowship of Evangelical Students (Singapore) 1
Fitzwilliam, Francis. 1
Fitzwilliam, Jennie. 1
Frame, Helen. 1
Frame, Raymond. 1
Fraser, James Outram, 1886-1938. 1
Frost, Henry Weston, 1858- 1
Gray, James M. 1
Hatfield, Mark O., 1922-2011. 1
Hockman, Robert William, 1906-1935. 1
Hunter, George W., 1861-1946. 1
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) 1
Kuhn, Isobel. 1
Kuhn, John Becker. 1
Lattimore, Owen, 1900-1989. 1
LeBar, Lois E. (Lois Emogene), 1907-1997. 1
Mather, Percy Cunningham. 1
McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944. 1
Nee, Watchman. 1
Nowack, Ruth Louise. 1
Page, Isaac. 1
Philadelphia Bible Institute. 1
Pocket Testament League. 1
Princeton Theological Seminary. 1
Rader, Paul, 1879-1938. 1
Salvation Army. 1
Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 1
Singapore Bible College. 1
Small, Elizabeth Stair. 1
Small, Robertson. 1
Springer, Charles Oliver. 1
Springer, Marion. 1
Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions. 1
Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 1
Sundquist, Ruth. 1
Tong Doan Sinh-Vien Hoc-Sinh Tin-Lanh. 1
Woods, C. Stacey, 1909-1983. 1
Zhou, Enlai, 1898-1976. 1
Zwemer, Samuel Marinus, 1
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