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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
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 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 535 Oral History Interview with Mona Joyce
Collection
Identifier: CN 535
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Mona Miller Joyce (1912-2000) in which she describes her childhood and youth, conversion and spiritual development, call to missionary work, family, work in China with China Inland Mission, husband Raymond Joyce, the Communist period in China and CIM's expulsion from the country, co-workers Dr. Jessie McDonald and Mabel Soltau, Pentecostalism, relations among missionaries, her role as a woman missionary, outreach to Muslims, their work in the Persian Gulf with...
Dates:
Created: 1996
Collection 286 Oral History Interview with Marilyn J. Suttie
Collection
Identifier: CN 286
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Marilyn Joy Suttie in which she describes her work as a missionary in Cameroon with the United Presbyterian Ecumenical Mission. Topics discussed include: Suttie's childhood in China, education at Wheaton College, and short-term missionary work, mainly teaching missionary children in Cameroon. Also includes information on the Cameroon church, polygamy, Muslims in Cameroon, and medical care, and other political, social, and religious issues in Africa. The time...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Collection 287 Oral History Interview with Margaret Crossett
Collection
Identifier: CN 287
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Margaret Rice Elliott Crossett in which she describes her childhood with her missionary parents in China, her education at Wheaton College, and missionary career with her husband, Vincent Crossett, in China and Taiwan with China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship (1929-1948, 1961-1973). Topics discussed include Crossett's childhood in China; description of Chinese indigenous worship practices and syncretism in Chinese religious culture; Crossett's...
Dates:
Created: 1984-1986
Collection 051 Papers of Katharine H. Schoerner
Collection
Identifier: CN 051
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Katherine Hastings Dodd Schoerner for the Missionary Sources Collection at the BGC Archives, in which she describes her experiences as a missionary with China Inland Mission from 1931-1951. Also included the collection are five letters written during her ministry in China describing her life there.Katharine Schoerner was interviewed by Wheaton College student Gary Ziccardi on October 20, 1978 at her home in Evergreen Park. Topics covered in the...
Dates:
Created: 1978
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 606 Papers of Winifred Rand
Collection
Identifier: CN 606
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview, articles, questionnaires, and biographical information related to the missionary service of Winifred Rand with China Inland Mission. Topics covered by the material include: Rand’s teaching ambitions as a young girl; reason for move to missions; Portland Bible Institute; Christian and Missionary Alliance missions policy toward single women on the mission field; China Inland Mission training; Chinese language school; doing rural work with Chinese Bible woman in Shansi,...
Dates:
Created: 1936-2004
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 418 Papers of Hester H. Withey
Collection
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 182 Papers of J. Herbert and Winnifred Kane
Collection
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
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- Missionaries. 13
- Missions -- China. 13
- Women missionaries. 13
- China -- History. 12
- Women 12
- Women -- Religious life. 12
- Evangelistic work -- China. 11
- Evangelistic work. 11
- Children of missionaries. 10
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 10
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 10
- Missions. 9
- China. 8
- Indigenous church administration 8
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 7
- Christian education -- China. 7
- Christian education. 7
- Family. 7
- Language in missionary work. 7
- Missionaries -- Training of. 7
- Buddhists -- China. 6
- Buddhists. 6
- China -- Religion. 6
- Chinese -- Missions. 6
- Culture shock. 6
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 6
- Medical care 6
- Refugees 6
- Tribes. 6
- Bible. 5
- Chinese. 5
- Conversion. 5
- Medical care -- China. 5
- Persecution -- China. 5
- Persecution. 5
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- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 5
- Christian life. 4
- Christianity and culture -- China. 4
- Church development, New. 4
- Education 4
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- Rural churches -- China. 4
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 4
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- Catholic Church. 3
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- Missions -- Taiwan. 3
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- China -- Church history. 2
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- Church and state. 2
- Church growth -- China. 2
- Church growth. 2
- Church work with women -- China. 2
- Church work with women. 2
- Crime and criminals 2
- Crime and criminals -- China. 2
- Economic and social conditions 2
- Evangelicalism. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Philippines. 2
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- OMF International. 9
- China Inland Mission. 8
- Wheaton College (Ill.) 8
- Zhongguo guo min dang. 5
- Moody Bible Institute. 4
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 3
- Crossett, Margaret E. 3
- Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 3
- Schoerner, Otto Frederick. 3
- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 3
- Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 3
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 2
- Crossett, Vincent. 2
- Elliott, Eleanor Edwards. 2
- Elliott, Ruth, 1908- 2
- Elliott, Walter Scott. 2
- Hoste, Dixon Edward, 1861-1946. 2
- Kane, J. Herbert. 2
- Nee, Watchman. 2
- Straw, Darien A. 2
- Advent Christian Church. 1
- American Bible Society. 1
- Anderson, Helen, 1909-2004. 1
- Anderson, Ian Rankin. 1
- Barrington College. 1
- Bible Institute of the Philippines (Valenzuela, Philippines) 1
- Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship. 1
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 1
- Bosshardt, Rudolf Alfred. 1
- Carlson, Margaret Johanna. 1
- Carlson, Robert Dean. 1
- Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 1
- Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
- Chicago Evangelistic Institute. 1
- Chin, John C. 1
- Custer, Sadie. 1
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 1
- Egypt General Mission. 1
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 1
- Faith Academy (Quezon City, Philippines) 1
- Fellowship of Faith for Muslims. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Francis. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Jennie. 1
- Frame, Helen. 1
- Frame, Raymond. 1
- Fraser, James Outram, 1886-1938. 1
- George, A. K. 1
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 1
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 1
- Hatfield, Mark O., 1922-2011. 1
- Hockman, Robert William, 1906-1935. 1
- Houghton, Frank, 1894-1972. 1
- Interserve. 1
- Jones, Clarence W. 1
- Jones, Howard O. 1
- Joyce, Mona M. 1
- Joyce, Raymond H. 1
- Kane, Winnifred Mary Shepherd, 1912- 1
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. 1
- Kuhn, Isobel. 1
- Kuhn, John Becker. 1
- Larson, Reuben. 1
- Little Flock (China) 1
- Machen, J. Gresham (John Gresham), 1881-1937. 1
- McDonald, Jessie, 1888-1980. 1
- McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 1
- North, G. W. 1
- Nowack, Ruth Louise. 1
- Nyack Missionary Training Institute (N.Y.) 1
- Orr, J. Edwin (James Edwin), 1912- 1
- Philadelphia Bible Institute. 1
- Rand, Winifred. 1
- Singh, Bakht, Brother, 1903-2000. 1
- Soltau, Mabel E. 1
- Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 1
- Suttie, Marilyn J. 1
- Suttie, Mary Elizabeth. 1
- Suttie, Melvin. 1
- Tilley, Florence. 1
- United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. 1
- WEC International. 1
- Wang, Leland. 1
- Withey, Hester H. 1
- Woodward, David. 1
- Zhou, Enlai, 1898-1976. 1 ∧ less
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