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Collection 169 Oral History Interviews with Harold P. Adolph

 Collection
Identifier: CN 169
Scope and Contents Oral History Interview with Harold Paul Adolph, in which he discusses his boyhood in China as the son of missionaries with China Inland Mission, conditions in China, his education at Wheaton College, medical education at the University of Pennsylvania, decision to become a missionary, and his ministry in Ethiopia as a medical missionary in African with Sudan Interior Mission; American missions in Ethiopia; family life on the mission field, and work with the Christian Medical Society. The...
Dates: Created: 1981

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

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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 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 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 288 Oral History Interview with Vincent L. Crossett

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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 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 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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China -- History. 8
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China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 7
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China -- History -- 1937-1945. 6
Conversion. 6
Language in missionary work. 6
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Women missionaries. 6
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Bible. 4
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Indigenous church administration -- China. 4
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
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Missions. 4
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Animism. 3
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Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
Philosophy, Tibetan. 2
Refugees -- China. 2
Rural missions -- China. 2
Worship. 2
Amharic language. 1
Ancestor worship. 1
Ancestor worship. -- China. 1
Animism -- China. 1
Animism -- Ethiopia. 1
Bible -- Evidences, authority, etc. 1
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Wheaton College (Ill.) 6
China Inland Mission. 4
OMF International. 4
Zhongguo guo min dang. 4
Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 3
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Kane, J. Herbert. 3
Moody Bible Institute. 3
Anderson, Helen, 1909-2004. 2
Anderson, Ian Rankin. 2
Christian and Missionary Alliance. 2
Crossett, Margaret E. 2
Crossett, Vincent. 2
Ekvall, Robert B. (Robert Brainerd), 1898-1983. 2
Hoste, Dixon Edward, 1861-1946. 2
Kane, Winnifred Mary Shepherd, 1912- 2
Straw, Darien A. 2
Adolph, Harold Paul. 1
Advent Christian Church. 1
Alley, Rewi, 1897-1987. 1
Bartel, Loyal. 1
Bartel, Susan Schultz. 1
Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 1
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 1
Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 1
China Mennonite Mission Society. 1
Christian Medical Society. 1
Coptic Church. 1
Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 1
Elliott, Eleanor Edwards. 1
Elliott, Ruth, 1908- 1
Elliott, Walter Scott. 1
Evangelical Mennonite Brethren Church. 1
Fitzwilliam, Francis. 1
Fitzwilliam, Jennie. 1
Fraser, James Outram, 1886-1938. 1
Frost, Henry Weston, 1858- 1
Glover, Robert Hall, 1871-1947. 1
Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975. 1
Hess, Esther N. 1
Hess, Lawrence. 1
Kuhn, Isobel. 1
Kuhn, John Becker. 1
Machen, J. Gresham (John Gresham), 1881-1937. 1
McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 1
Narramore Christian Foundation. 1
Page, Isaac. 1
Philadelphia Bible Institute. 1
Pocket Testament League. 1
Princeton Theological Seminary. 1
Sawyer, Helen L. 1
Sawyer, Malcolm M. 1
Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 1
Schoerner, Otto Frederick. 1
Springer, Charles Oliver. 1
Springer, Marion. 1
Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 1
Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 1
Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions. 1
Sudan Interior Mission. 1
Suttie, Mary Elizabeth. 1
Suttie, Melvin. 1
Zwemer, Samuel Marinus, 1
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