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Collection 206 Oral History Interview with John C. Chin

 Collection
Identifier: CN 206
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with John C. Chin (1911-1989) in which he discusses his childhood in China, medical training, and the Chinese Christian church; the work of China Inland Mission in Honan, Szechwan, and Yunnan provinces; the Japanese occupation of China; Nationalist and Communist parties; medical work in CIM and Presbyterian hospitals; war conditions and relocation to Taiwan;  Also discussed is his founding of the Lutheran Seminary, Taiwan; the contemporary status of Chinese Christians,...
Dates: Created: 1982

Collection 255 Oral History Interview of Helen Frame

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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

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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

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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 421 Oral History Interviews with Arthur F. Glasser

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Identifier: CN 421
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Arthur Frederick Glasser (1914-2009) in which he discusses his family background; conversion to Christianity at a Keswick conference; his education at Moody Bible Institute and Faith Seminary in Wilmington, DE; service as a chaplain during World War II; marriage, work with Dawson Trotman and the Navigators; service as a missionary in China with China Inland Mission; the Communist revolution in China; the 1951 Bournemouth conference to determine CIM's future; and...
Dates: Created: 1989-1998

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 293 Oral History Interview with Melvin D. Suttie

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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 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 092 Ephemera of Robert B. Ekvall

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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

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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

 Collection
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

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

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China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 11
China -- History. 11
Evangelistic work -- China. 11
Evangelistic work. 11
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Missionaries -- Training of. 9
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 9
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 8
Conversion. 8
Language in missionary work. 7
Children of missionaries. 6
China -- Religion. 6
Church and state -- China. 6
Church and state. 6
Indigenous church administration 6
Indigenous church administration -- China. 6
China -- Description and travel. 5
Persecution -- China. 5
Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 5
Three-self movement. 5
China. 4
Chinese -- Missions. 4
College students. 4
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Missionaries' spouses. 4
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Women missionaries. 4
World War, 1939-1945. 4
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Missions -- Tibet. 2
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Pentecostalism. 2
Philosophy, Tibetan. 2
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China Inland Mission. 7
OMF International. 7
Zhongguo guo min dang. 6
Moody Bible Institute. 5
Christian and Missionary Alliance. 4
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Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 3
Schoerner, Otto Frederick. 3
Wheaton College (Ill.) 3
Borden Memorial Hospital (Lanchow, China) 2
Chao, Calvin. 2
China Inter-Varsity Evangelical Christian Students Fellowship. 2
Contento, Paul A. 2
Ekvall, Robert B. (Robert Brainerd), 1898-1983. 2
Fellowship of Evangelical Students (Singapore) 2
Frame, Raymond. 2
Glasser, Arthur F. (Arthur Frederick), 1914- 2
Glover, Robert Hall, 1871-1947. 2
Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 2
Houghton, Frank, 1894-1972. 2
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 2
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) 2
Kane, J. Herbert. 2
Kane, Winnifred Mary Shepherd, 1912- 2
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 2
McGavran, Donald A. (Donald Anderson), 1897-1990. 2
Nee, Watchman. 2
Page, Isaac. 2
Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 2
Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 2
Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 2
Stott, John R. W. 2
Woods, C. Stacey, 1909-1983. 2
Adeney, Ruth W. 1
Alley, Rewi, 1897-1987. 1
Ambassadors for Christ (Allentown, Pa.) 1
Anderson, Helen, 1909-2004. 1
Anderson, Ian Rankin. 1
Anderson, Peter. 1
Armitage, Carolyn. 1
Association of Christians Ministering Among Internationals. 1
Bacon, Daniel W. 1
Bible Institute of the Philippines (Valenzuela, Philippines) 1
Billy Graham Center. Institute for Chinese Studies. 1
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 1
Booth-Clibborn, Catherine, 1860-1955. 1
Bosshardt, Rudolf Alfred. 1
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 1
Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 1
Ch'eng, Marcus, 1884-1964. 1
Chandapilla, P. T. 1
Chandler, Rosemary Joy. 1
Chao, Jonathan. 1
Chin, John C. 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
Contento, Maida. 1
Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 1
Custer, Sadie. 1
Discipleship Training Centre (Singapore) 1
Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
Dowsett, Dick. 1
Draper, Ben. 1
English Language Institute/China. 1
Evangelical China Office. 1
Fellowship of Evangelical Students (Malaysia) 1
First Asian Student Missionary Convention (1973 : Baguio, Philippines) 1
Frame, Helen. 1
Friends of China Fellowship. 1
Frost, Henry Weston, 1858- 1
Fuller Theological Seminary. 1
Fung, Raymond. 1
Gates, Alan Frederick, 1931- 1
Girao, William B. 1
Graham, Ruth Bell. 1
Gray, James M. 1
Guinness, Henry, 1908- 1
Hamilton, Pauline G. 1
Hess, Esther N. 1
Hess, Lawrence. 1
Hoste, Dixon Edward, 1861-1946. 1
Houghton, Stanley, 1881-1913. 1
Hunter, George W., 1861-1946. 1
Juarez, Leni. 1
Kirisutosha Gakusei Kai. 1
Kuhn, Isobel. 1
Lambert, Tony, 1948- 1
Lattimore, Owen, 1900-1989. 1
Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (2nd : 1989 : Manila, Philippines) 1
League of Evangelical Students. 1
Lee, Witness. 1
Ling, Samuel. 1
Little Flock (China) 1
Little, Marie, 1918-2009. 1
Little, Paul E. 1
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