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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 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 266 Oral History Interview with Ruth Sundquist

 Collection
Identifier: CN 266
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Ruth Sundquist in which she describes her education at Moody Bible Institute, decision to become a missionary, work first in Kentucky home missions as a Christian education worker with the Evangelical Free Church and then her missionary career in China and Hong Kong between 1947 and 1982 as an administrator for a Sunday School and orphanage. Other topics discussed include: language school in China, Chinese attitudes toward the Nationalists, Communists, Americans...
Dates: Created: 1984

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 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 092 Ephemera of Robert B. Ekvall

 Collection
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 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

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 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

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

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Missionaries. 12
China -- History. 11
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 10
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China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 8
China -- Religion. 8
Women missionaries. 8
Children of missionaries. 7
Church and state. 7
Indigenous church administration 7
Indigenous church administration -- China. 7
Language in missionary work. 7
Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 7
China -- History -- 1949- 6
Christian education -- China. 6
Christian education. 6
Church and state -- China. 6
Conversion. 6
Rural churches. 6
Buddhists -- China. 5
Buddhists. 5
Chinese -- Missions. 5
Christianity and culture. 5
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Medical care -- China. 5
Missions, Medical. 5
Missions. 5
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China. 4
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Church growth. 4
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Missionaries' spouses. 4
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Presbyterians. 4
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Refugees -- China. 4
Rural missions. 4
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Bible colleges 3
Catholic Church. 3
China -- Church history -- 20th century. 3
China -- Church history. 3
Church and social problems. 3
Culture shock. 3
Education -- China. 3
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Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
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Pentecostalism. 3
Sex role. 3
Sunday schools. 3
Theological seminaries. 3
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African Americans. 2
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Bible -- Translating. 2
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Bible colleges -- United States. 2
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China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901. 2
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Church work with refugees. 2
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Church work with women. 2
Education -- Curricula. 2
Evangelistic work -- Taiwan. 2
Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
Fundamentalism. 2
Medical care -- United States. 2
Missionaries -- Salaries, etc. 2
Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 2
Missions -- Finance. 2
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 2
Missions -- Study and teaching. 2
Missions -- Taiwan. 2
Missions -- United States. 2
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Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni. 2
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China Inland Mission. 7
Moody Bible Institute. 6
OMF International. 5
Schoerner, Otto Frederick. 4
Wheaton College (Ill.) 4
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Christian and Missionary Alliance. 3
Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 3
Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 2
Borden Memorial Hospital (Lanchow, China) 2
Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 2
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 2
Dow, Elsie Storrs. 2
Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 2
Kane, J. Herbert. 2
Kane, Winnifred Mary Shepherd, 1912- 2
Kuhn, Isobel. 2
Nee, Watchman. 2
Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 2
Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 2
Straw, Darien A. 2
Advent Christian Church. 1
Alley, Rewi, 1897-1987. 1
American Bible Society. 1
Anderson, Helen, 1909-2004. 1
Anderson, Ian Rankin. 1
Barrington College. 1
Bartel, Loyal. 1
Bartel, Susan Schultz. 1
Barth, Karl, 1886-1968. 1
Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 1
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 1
Bosshardt, Rudolf Alfred. 1
Bright, Bill. 1
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 1
Butt, Howard E., Jr. (Howard Edward), 1927-2016. 1
Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 1
Chin, John C. 1
China Mennonite Mission Society. 1
Christianity Today International. 1
Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 1
Crossett, Margaret E. 1
Custer, Sadie. 1
Ekvall, Robert B. (Robert Brainerd), 1898-1983. 1
Elliott, Eleanor Edwards. 1
Elliott, Ruth, 1908- 1
Elliott, Walter Scott. 1
Evangelical Alliance Mission. 1
Evangelical Free Church of America. 1
Evangelical Mennonite Brethren Church. 1
Faith Academy (Quezon City, Philippines) 1
Fitzwilliam, Francis. 1
Fitzwilliam, Jennie. 1
Frame, Raymond. 1
Fraser, James Outram, 1886-1938. 1
Hatfield, Mark O., 1922-2011. 1
Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 1
Hess, Esther N. 1
Hess, Lawrence. 1
Hockman, Robert William, 1906-1935. 1
Houghton, Frank, 1894-1972. 1
Hunter, George W., 1861-1946. 1
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 1
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973. 1
Jones, Bob, 1883-1968. 1
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. 1
Kuhn, John Becker. 1
Lattimore, Owen, 1900-1989. 1
LeBar, Lois E. (Lois Emogene), 1907-1997. 1
Little Flock (China) 1
Little, Marie, 1918-2009. 1
Little, Paul E. 1
Mather, Percy Cunningham. 1
McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 1
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 1
New Zealand Bible Institute. 1
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994. 1
Nowack, Ruth Louise. 1
Ockenga, Harold John, 1905-1985. 1
Page, Isaac. 1
Pew, J. Howard (John Howard), 1882-1971. 1
Philadelphia Bible Institute. 1
Pike, Kenneth L. (Kenneth Lee), 1912-2000. 1
Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. 1
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 1
Salvation Army. 1
Sanders, J. Oswald (John Oswald), 1902-1992. 1
Saunders, W. Arthur. 1
Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 1
Sundquist, Ruth. 1
Suttie, Mary Elizabeth. 1
Suttie, Melvin. 1
Thomas, Ruth Dunton. 1
Vaus, Jim. 1
Wang, Leland. 1
World Council of Churches. 1
World Vision International. 1
World Wide Pictures, Inc. 1
Wycliffe Bible Translators. 1
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