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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 256 Oral History Interviews with Malcolm and Helen Sawyer

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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 315 Oral History Interview with Marie H. Little

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Identifier: CN 315
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Marie Huttenlock Little (1918-2009) in which she describes her childhood in Philadelphia, training as a nurse and further education at Philadelphia School of Bible and the University of Pennsylvania; missionary service with China Inland Mission in 1947, working in Lanzhou and Wu Wei, Gansu province; return to the U.S. in 1950 to become a staff worker for Inter-Varsity. The time period covered by the interviews is circa 1918-1955.Marie Little was...
Dates: Created: 1985

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 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 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

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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

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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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Evangelistic work -- China. 7
Language in missionary work. 7
Missionaries -- Training of. 7
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 7
Missionaries. 7
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Children of missionaries. 6
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 6
China -- History. 6
Conversion. 6
China -- History -- 1949- 5
China -- Religion. 5
Women 5
Women -- Religious life. 5
Women missionaries. 5
Buddhists -- China. 4
Buddhists. 4
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 4
Church and state -- China. 4
Church and state. 4
Family. 4
Medical care 4
Medical care -- China. 4
Missions to Buddhists. 4
Missions, Medical. 4
Persecution -- China. 4
Persecution. 4
Bible. 3
Catholic Church. 3
China. 3
Chinese -- Missions. 3
Chinese. 3
Christian education -- China. 3
Christian education. 3
Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 3
Christian literature. 3
Christianity and culture. 3
Church growth. 3
Missionaries' spouses. 3
Missions to Buddhists -- China. 3
Missions. 3
Refugees 3
Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 3
Tribes. 3
Bible -- Translating. 2
Bible colleges 2
China -- Social life and customs. 2
Chinese language. 2
Christian education -- Philippines. 2
Christian life. 2
Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- China. 2
Church growth -- China. 2
Church work with refugees. 2
Culture shock. 2
Education 2
Evangelistic work -- Philippines. 2
Evangelistic work -- Tibet (China) 2
Exorcism. 2
Indigenous church administration 2
Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
Interpersonal conflict. 2
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 2
Missions -- Educational work. 2
Missions -- India. 2
Missions -- Philippines. 2
Missions -- Tibet. 2
Nursing. 2
Pentecostalism. 2
Rural missions. 2
Sex role. 2
Three-self movement. 2
World War, 1939-1945. 2
Animism -- China. 1
Animism. 1
Atheism. 1
Baptists -- Missions. 1
Baptists. 1
Bible -- Publication and distribution -- China. 1
Bible -- Publication and distribution. 1
Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
Bible colleges -- China. 1
Bible colleges -- Laos. 1
Bible colleges -- United States. 1
Bible colleges. 1
Buddhism -- Laos. 1
Buddhism. 1
Buddhists -- Tibet (China) 1
Capital punishment. 1
Caste -- India. 1
Caste. 1
Caste. -- Nepal. 1
Catholic Church -- Missions. 1
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 1
Catholic Church -- Relations 1
Catholic Church. -- China. 1
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Moody Bible Institute. 4
OMF International. 4
Zhongguo guo min dang. 4
China Inland Mission. 3
Borden Memorial Hospital (Lanchow, China) 2
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Christian and Missionary Alliance. 2
Frame, Raymond. 2
Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 2
Schoerner, Otto Frederick. 2
Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 2
Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) 2
Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 1
American Bible Society. 1
Bartel, Loyal. 1
Bartel, Susan Schultz. 1
Bible Institute of the Philippines (Valenzuela, Philippines) 1
Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 1
Chicago Evangelistic Institute. 1
China Mennonite Mission Society. 1
Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 1
Crossett, Margaret E. 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
Frame, Helen. 1
Frost, Henry Weston, 1858- 1
George, A. K. 1
Glover, Robert Hall, 1871-1947. 1
Hunter, George W., 1861-1946. 1
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 1
Kane, J. Herbert. 1
Kane, Winnifred Mary Shepherd, 1912- 1
Kuhn, Isobel. 1
Lattimore, Owen, 1900-1989. 1
Little, Marie, 1918-2009. 1
Little, Paul E. 1
Mather, Percy Cunningham. 1
North, G. W. 1
Pocket Testament League. 1
Princeton Theological Seminary. 1
Sawyer, Helen L. 1
Sawyer, Malcolm M. 1
Singh, Bakht, Brother, 1903-2000. 1
Springer, Charles Oliver. 1
Springer, Marion. 1
Straw, Darien A. 1
Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions. 1
Thomas, Ruth Dunton. 1
Tilley, Florence 1
WEC International. 1
Withey, Hester H. 1
Woodward, David. 1
Zwemer, Samuel Marinus, 1
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