Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to search results
New Search
Search collections in Evangelism & Missions Archives where
  • keyword(s): Oral History

Showing Results: 1 - 11 of 11

Collection 421 Oral History Interviews with Arthur F. Glasser

 Collection
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 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 471 Papers of W. Arthur Saunders

 Collection
Identifier: CN 471
Scope and Contents Oral history interview and a manuscript translated by W. Arthur Saunders, relating to Saunder’s missionary service in China with China Inland Mission and Overseas Missionary Fellowship from 1930 to 1987. The interview describes his childhood in England, emigration to New Zealand, training at the New Zealand Bible Institute, joining the China Inland Mission, going to China in 1930, evangelistic work in south Gansu province, the work of Chinese evangelists, worship services in Gansu churches,...
Dates: Created: 1992

Collection 075 Oral History Interviews with Elizabeth Warner

 Collection
Identifier: CN 075
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Elizabeth Howard Warner (1912-2000) in which she describes her childhood in the Canton Province of China as a daughter of missionaries, Canton Christian College where her father worked, studies and personalities at Wheaton College, her mission work among girls with Door of Hope Mission in Canton and Hong Kong, Chinese education, economic and social conditions, religion (particularly Buddhism), politics and government, the impact of China's war with Japan, and...
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 293 Oral History Interview with Melvin D. Suttie

 Collection
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

 Collection
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 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

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

Filtered By

  • Subject: Communism -- China. X
  • Subject: Church and state -- China. X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
Church and state. 10
Evangelistic work -- China. 10
Evangelistic work. 10
Missionaries. 10
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 9
∨ more
China -- History. 8
Missionaries -- Training of. 8
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 7
China -- Religion. 7
Children of missionaries. 6
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 6
China -- History -- 1949- 6
Conversion. 6
Language in missionary work. 6
Medical care -- China. 6
Women missionaries. 6
Medical care 5
Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 5
Three-self movement. 5
Catholic Church. 4
China -- Description and travel. 4
Christian leadership. 4
Indigenous church administration -- China. 4
Missions -- Educational work. 4
Missions, Medical. 4
Persecution -- China. 4
Women 4
Women -- Religious life. 4
Buddhists -- China. 3
Buddhists. 3
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
Chinese -- Missions. 3
Chinese. 3
Church growth. 3
College students. 3
Education 3
Indigenous church administration 3
Missionaries' spouses. 3
Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 3
Missions -- Finance. 3
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
Missions -- Study and teaching. 3
Missions, Medical -- China. 3
Pentecostalism. 3
Persecution. 3
World War, 1939-1945. 3
Bible -- Study and teaching. 2
Bible -- Translating. 2
Bible colleges 2
Bible. 2
China -- Church history -- 20th century. 2
China -- Church history. 2
China -- Politics and government. 2
China -- Social life and customs. 2
Christian life. 2
Church growth -- China. 2
Church work with refugees. 2
Church work with students -- China. 2
Church work with students. 2
College students -- Religious life. 2
College students -- United States -- Religious life. 2
Culture shock. 2
Ecumenical movement. 2
Education -- China. 2
Evangelicalism. 2
Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
Family. 2
Fundamentalism. 2
Journalism, Religious. 2
Medical care -- United States. 2
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
Missionaries -- Salaries, etc. 2
Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation -- China. 2
Missions -- Singapore. 2
Missions to Buddhists. 2
Missions. 2
Nursing -- China. 2
Nursing. 2
Pentecostalism -- China. 2
Presbyterian Church -- Missions. 2
Presbyterian Church. 2
Presbyterians. 2
Rural churches -- China. 2
Rural missions -- China. 2
Rural missions. 2
Sex role. 2
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945. 2
Sunday schools. 2
Theological seminaries. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
Worship. 2
African Americans -- Social conditions. 1
African Americans. 1
Anti-communist movements. 1
∧ less
 
Language
Chinese 1
 
Names
Zhongguo guo min dang. 6
China Inland Mission. 5
OMF International. 4
Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 3
Christian and Missionary Alliance. 3
∨ more
Schoerner, Otto Frederick. 3
Wheaton College (Ill.) 3
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 2
Borden Memorial Hospital (Lanchow, China) 2
Glasser, Arthur F. (Arthur Frederick), 1914- 2
Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 2
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 2
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 2
McGavran, Donald A. (Donald Anderson), 1897-1990. 2
Moody Bible Institute. 2
Ockenga, Harold John, 1905-1985. 2
Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 2
Stott, John R. W. 2
World Council of Churches. 2
Adeney, Ruth W. 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
Bartel, Loyal. 1
Bartel, Susan Schultz. 1
Barth, Karl, 1886-1968. 1
Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 1
Billy Graham Center. Institute for Chinese Studies. 1
Booth-Clibborn, Catherine, 1860-1955. 1
Bosshardt, Rudolf Alfred. 1
Bright, Bill. 1
Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 1
Butt, Howard E., Jr. (Howard Edward), 1927-2016. 1
Ch'eng, Marcus, 1884-1964. 1
Chandapilla, P. T. 1
Chandler, Rosemary Joy. 1
Chao, Calvin. 1
Chao, Jonathan. 1
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
China Graduate School of Theology. 1
China Inter-Varsity Evangelical Christian Students Fellowship. 1
China Mennonite Mission Society. 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
Christianity Today International. 1
Chua, Wee Hian, 1939- 1
Chung, Derek. 1
Contento, Paul A. 1
Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 1
Discipleship Training Centre (Singapore) 1
Door of Hope Mission. 1
Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
Dowsett, Dick. 1
Draper, Ben. 1
Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 1
Ekvall, Robert B. (Robert Brainerd), 1898-1983. 1
English Language Institute/China. 1
Evangelical Alliance Mission. 1
Evangelical China Office. 1
Evangelical Mennonite Brethren Church. 1
Fellowship of Evangelical Students (Malaysia) 1
Fellowship of Evangelical Students (Singapore) 1
First Asian Student Missionary Convention (1973 : Baguio, Philippines) 1
Frame, Raymond. 1
Friends of China Fellowship. 1
Fuller Theological Seminary. 1
Fung, Raymond. 1
Gates, Alan Frederick, 1931- 1
Girao, William B. 1
Graham, Ruth Bell. 1
Guinness, Henry, 1908- 1
Hamilton, Pauline G. 1
Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 1
Hess, Esther N. 1
Hess, Lawrence. 1
Hoste, Dixon Edward, 1861-1946. 1
Houghton, Frank, 1894-1972. 1
Houghton, Stanley, 1881-1913. 1
Hunter, George W., 1861-1946. 1
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) 1
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973. 1
Jones, Bob, 1883-1968. 1
Juarez, Leni. 1
Kane, J. Herbert. 1
Kane, Winnifred Mary Shepherd, 1912- 1
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. 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
∧ less