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Collection 164 Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Small

 Collection
Identifier: CN 164
Scope and Contents

Oral history interview with Elizabeth Stair Small in which she describes her missionary experiences in China between the earliest communist revolutions; includes customs, evangelizing methods, assistance of Chinese Christians in areas of central China; post-war pastoring in the U.S. The time period covered by the interviews is 1904-1980.

Elizabeth Small was interviewed by Robert Shuster on October 28, 1980 at the Billy Graham Center Archives at Wheaton College.

Dates: Created: 1980

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 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 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

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 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 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 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

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Children of missionaries. 7
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 7
Evangelistic work -- China. 7
Missionaries -- Training of. 7
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 7
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Rural missions. 7
Women missionaries. 7
China -- History. 6
Evangelistic work. 6
Language in missionary work. 6
Women 6
Women -- Religious life. 6
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 5
Conversion. 5
Indigenous church administration -- China. 5
Missionaries' spouses. 5
World War, 1939-1945. 5
Bible. 4
China -- Religion. 4
Christian education -- China. 4
Christian education. 4
Christianity and culture. 4
Culture shock. 4
Family. 4
Indigenous church administration 4
Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 4
Persecution -- China. 4
Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 4
Tribes. 4
Bible -- Publication and distribution. 3
Bible -- Study and teaching. 3
Buddhists -- China. 3
Buddhists. 3
Catholic Church. 3
China -- Social life and customs. 3
Church and state -- China. 3
Church development, New. 3
Medical care -- China. 3
Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
Persecution. 3
Refugees 3
Refugees -- China. 3
Religious institutions. 3
Rural churches -- China. 3
Rural missions -- China. 3
Theology 3
Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 3
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 3
Bible colleges 2
Bible colleges -- United States. 2
Catholic Church. -- China. 2
China -- Church history -- 20th century. 2
China -- Church history. 2
China -- Description and travel. 2
China -- History -- 1912-1937. 2
China -- History -- 1949- 2
China. 2
Chinese language. 2
Christian education -- Taiwan. 2
Christian life. 2
Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 2
Christian literature. 2
Christian martyrs -- China. 2
Church and state. 2
Church work with refugees -- China. 2
Church work with refugees. 2
Church work with students -- China. 2
Church work with students. 2
Church work with women -- China. 2
Church work with women. 2
College students. 2
Crime and criminals 2
Crime and criminals -- China. 2
Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
Indigenous church administration -- Taiwan. 2
Medical care 2
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
Missions -- Educational work. 2
Missions -- Taiwan. 2
Missions to Buddhists -- China. 2
Missions to Buddhists. 2
Missions. 2
Rural churches. 2
Sex role. 2
Ancestor worship. 1
Ancestor worship. -- China. 1
Animism. 1
Bible -- Evidences, authority, etc. 1
Bible -- Publication and distribution -- China. 1
Bible -- Translating. 1
Bible colleges -- China. 1
Boarding schools -- China. 1
Boarding schools. 1
Catholic Church -- Missions. 1
Catholic Church -- Relations 1
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China Inland Mission. 6
OMF International. 6
Wheaton College (Ill.) 5
Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 4
Zhongguo guo min dang. 4
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Crossett, Margaret E. 3
Hoste, Dixon Edward, 1861-1946. 3
Moody Bible Institute. 3
Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 3
Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 3
Straw, Darien A. 3
Anderson, Helen, 1909-2004. 2
Anderson, Ian Rankin. 2
Crossett, Vincent. 2
Dow, Elsie Storrs. 2
Elliott, Eleanor Edwards. 2
Elliott, Ruth, 1908- 2
Elliott, Walter Scott. 2
Kane, J. Herbert. 2
Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 2
Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 1
Adeney, Ruth W. 1
Advent Christian Church. 1
Ambassadors for Christ (Allentown, Pa.) 1
American Bible Society. 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
Billy Graham Center. Institute for Chinese Studies. 1
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 1
Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 1
Bosshardt, Rudolf Alfred. 1
Ch'eng, Marcus, 1884-1964. 1
Chandapilla, P. T. 1
Chandler, Rosemary Joy. 1
Chao, Calvin. 1
Chao, Jonathan. 1
Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 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
Chua, Wee Hian, 1939- 1
Chung, Derek. 1
Contento, Paul A. 1
Discipleship Training Centre (Singapore) 1
Dowsett, Dick. 1
Draper, Ben. 1
English Language Institute/China. 1
Evangelical China Office. 1
Evangelical Mennonite Brethren Church. 1
Faith Academy (Quezon City, Philippines) 1
Fellowship of Evangelical Students (Malaysia) 1
Fellowship of Evangelical Students (Singapore) 1
First Asian Student Missionary Convention (1973 : Baguio, Philippines) 1
Fitzwilliam, Francis. 1
Fitzwilliam, Jennie. 1
Fraser, James Outram, 1886-1938. 1
Friends of China Fellowship. 1
Fung, Raymond. 1
Gates, Alan Frederick, 1931- 1
Girao, William B. 1
Glasser, Arthur F. (Arthur Frederick), 1914- 1
Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 1
Graham, Ruth Bell. 1
Guinness, Henry, 1908- 1
Hamilton, Pauline G. 1
Hess, Esther N. 1
Hess, Lawrence. 1
Houghton, Frank, 1894-1972. 1
Houghton, Stanley, 1881-1913. 1
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 1
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) 1
Juarez, Leni. 1
Kane, Winnifred Mary Shepherd, 1912- 1
Kirisutosha Gakusei Kai. 1
Kuhn, Isobel. 1
Kuhn, John Becker. 1
Lambert, Tony, 1948- 1
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 1
Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (2nd : 1989 : Manila, Philippines) 1
Lee, Witness. 1
Ling, Samuel. 1
Local Church. 1
Logos (Ship) 1
Lum, Ada. 1
Machen, J. Gresham (John Gresham), 1881-1937. 1
Magalit, Isabelo F. 1
Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976. 1
McGavran, Donald A. (Donald Anderson), 1897-1990. 1
McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 1
Miller, Eric. 1
Nee, Watchman. 1
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