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Collection 052 Oral History Interview with Esther Salzman

 Collection
Identifier: CN 052
Scope and Contents

Oral history interview with Esther I. Salzman (1906-1996), a Wheaton College alumna and missionary to China in the 1940s and to the Philippines from 1950 to 1972. Topics discussed include her education at Wheaton College, medical work in China and the Philippines, and Communism in China. The time period covered by the interview is 1906 to 1978.

Esther Salzman was interviewed by Wheaton College student Fred Baker on October 28, 1978 at her home in Kankakee, IL.

Dates: Created: 1978

Collection 256 Oral History Interviews with Malcolm and Helen Sawyer

 Collection
Identifier: CN 256
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Malcolm Maurice Sawyer (1919-2007) and with Helen Irvin Sawyer, in which the Sawyers discuss their childhood, education, and working for the Christian and Missionary Alliance in China, 1948-1950 and in Laos, 1950-1975. Mission activities in Laos include church planting, training of pastors, and medical assistance to the Khamu and Hmong peoples, language study, Vietnam, Thailand and Tibet, transfer to Laos, cultural differences, political situation in Vietnam,...
Dates: Created: 1985

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 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

Collection 418 Papers of Hester H. Withey

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Identifier: CN 418
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews and a manuscript, documenting the ministry of Hester Hartzell Withey, missionary with Worldwide Evangelisation for Christ International (WEC) in China and India from 1940-1985.Series: Audio TapesOral history interviews with Hester Withey in which she describes her parents’ and grandparents’ missionary service in Angola, her childhood in Africa and the U.S., education in South Africa, conversion, medical training,...
Dates: Created: 1989

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 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

L. Nelson Bell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 318
Brief Description Correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, reports, and other documents related to the life and ministry of L. Nelson Bell, first as a medical missionary in China, then as doctor, editor, and lay leader in the Presbyterian Church in the United States. Among the topics covered by the material in the collection are missions in China in the twentieth century between the two world wars; the work of Bell's son-in-law, Billy Graham; the founding and development of Christianity Today and The...
Dates: 1923-1973

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Catholic Church. 7
Children of missionaries. 7
Women 7
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Missionaries -- Training of. 6
China -- History. 5
Church and state. 5
Family. 5
Language in missionary work. 5
Medical care 5
Medical care -- China. 5
Missions -- Educational work. 5
China -- Description and travel. 4
Christianity and culture. 4
Church and state -- China. 4
Culture shock. 4
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
Missions. 4
Persecution -- China. 4
Persecution. 4
Refugees 4
Tribes. 4
Bible. 3
Buddhists -- China. 3
Buddhists. 3
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
Catholic Church. -- China. 3
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 3
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 3
China -- Religion. 3
China. 3
Chinese -- Missions. 3
Chinese. 3
Christian life. 3
Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 3
Christian literature. 3
Church and social problems. 3
Conversion. 3
Evangelicalism. 3
Indigenous church administration 3
Missionaries' spouses. 3
Missions to Buddhists -- China. 3
Missions to Buddhists. 3
Missions, Medical. 3
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Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 3
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Authors and publishers. 1
Belief and doubt. 1
Bible -- Evidences, authority, etc. 1
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Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
Bible -- Translating. 1
Bible colleges -- China. 1
Bible colleges -- Laos. 1
Bible colleges -- United States. 1
Bible colleges. 1
Boarding schools -- Ecuador. 1
Boarding schools. 1
Buddhism -- Laos. 1
Buddhism. 1
Buddhists -- Tibet (China) 1
Caste -- India. 1
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Wheaton College (Ill.) 4
Zhongguo guo min dang. 3
Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 2
China Inland Mission. 2
Christian and Missionary Alliance. 2
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Crossett, Margaret E. 2
Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 2
McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 2
OMF International. 2
Straw, Darien A. 2
American Bible Society. 1
Bartel, Loyal. 1
Bartel, Susan Schultz. 1
Barth, Karl, 1886-1968. 1
Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 1
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 1
Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 1
Bright, Bill. 1
Butt, Howard E., Jr. (Howard Edward), 1927-2016. 1
Carlson, Margaret Johanna. 1
Carlson, Robert Dean. 1
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
Chicago Evangelistic Institute. 1
China Mennonite Mission Society. 1
Christianity Today International. 1
Crossett, Vincent. 1
Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
Ekvall, Robert B. (Robert Brainerd), 1898-1983. 1
Elliott, Eleanor Edwards. 1
Elliott, Ruth, 1908- 1
Elliott, Walter Scott. 1
Evangelical Mennonite Brethren Church. 1
Faith Academy (Quezon City, Philippines) 1
George, A. K. 1
Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 1
HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 1
Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 1
Hoste, Dixon Edward, 1861-1946. 1
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973. 1
Jones, Bob, 1883-1968. 1
Jones, Clarence W. 1
Jones, Howard O. 1
Kane, J. Herbert. 1
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. 1
Larson, Reuben. 1
Machen, J. Gresham (John Gresham), 1881-1937. 1
Moody Bible Institute. 1
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 1
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994. 1
North, G. W. 1
Ockenga, Harold John, 1905-1985. 1
Pew, J. Howard (John Howard), 1882-1971. 1
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 1
Salzman, Esther. 1
Sawyer, Helen L. 1
Sawyer, Malcolm M. 1
Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 1
Singh, Bakht, Brother, 1903-2000. 1
Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 1
Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 1
Tilley, Florence. 1
Vaus, Jim. 1
WEC International. 1
Withey, Hester H. 1
Woodward, David. 1
World Council of Churches. 1
World Vision International. 1
World Wide Pictures, Inc. 1
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