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Collection 681 Oral History Interview with Mertis Byram Heimbach
Collection
Identifier: CN 681
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Mertis Byram Heimbach (1921- ) missionary in China, Thailand, Singapore and U.S. with China Inland Mission (CIM) and (as it was later known) Overseas Missionary Fellowship (OMF) from 1946 to 1999. Topics discussed include childhood in Korea; parents’ mission work; Wheaton College and Prairie Bible Institute; marriage to Ernest Heimbach; Hmong (Miao) people; tribal mission work; Communist takeover of China; Communist treatment of Christians; CIM’s exit from China;...
Dates:
2014
Collection 523 Oral History Interviews with Jarbas Da Silva
Collection
Identifier: CN 523
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Jarbas Da Silva in which he discusses his childhood in San Paulo, Brazil; conversion to Christianity; Baptist Bible College; Russell Shedd; joining the Africa Inland Mission as a missionary to Mozambique; strengths and weaknesses of the church in Brazil; first impressions of Mozambique; the development of Sofala Bible Institute Beira City, Mozambique; strengths and weaknesses of the church in Mozambique; aftermath of the civil war; his perspective on the need for...
Dates:
Created: 1994
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 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 417 Papers of Dick Springer
Collection
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 312 Papers of Diane W. Hawkins
Collection
Identifier: CN 312
Scope and Contents
Collection 312 consists of letters, oral history interviews, articles, minutes of meetings, reports and other relating to Diane Hawkins' missionary service in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) as well as the tapes of an oral history interview conducted several years later. Among the topics covered are: TEAM's evangelistic, and educational work in Rhodesia; the lifestyle, music, and beliefs of Shona people; the civil war between white government and the black nationalist guerrillas which raged while...
Dates:
Created: 1970-1985
Collection 302 Oral History Interview with David L. Farah
Collection
Identifier: CN 302
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with David Livingstone Farah, in which he discusses his upbringing, education at Wheaton College, work as an administrator with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Peru and Bolivia, and relationships with other religious bodies, national groups and governments. Other topics include the 1950 revival at Wheaton College; Wycliffe jungle training in Mexico; the Catholic Church in Bolivia and the prevalence of syncretism; differences between Peru and Bolivia; description of...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Collection 089 Papers of Paul P. Stough
Collection
Identifier: CN 089
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, films, videos relating to Paul P. Stough’s missionary service in the Belgian Congo with Africa Inland Mission. Materials contain information on Stough's father, Henry Stough, Wheaton College, Paul Stough's work as a missionary for Africa Inland Mission in the Belgian Congo (Zaire) and Kenya from the 1920s to the 1970s, and generally on the spread of Christianity in Africa.
Dates:
Created: 1979-1992
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- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 2
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 2
- Adolph, Harold Paul. 1
- Africa Inland Church. 1
- American Colonization Society. 1
- Anderson, Helen, 1909-2004. 1
- Anderson, Ian Rankin. 1
- Becker, Carl K., Jr. 1
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 1
- Blanchard, Jonathan, 1811-1892. 1
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 1
- Catholic Church. 1
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- Congo Protestant Council. 1
- Coptic Church. 1
- Crossett, Margaret E. 1
- Crossett, Vincent. 1
- Davis, Ralph T. 1
- Dodds, Gilbert, 1918- 1
- Elliott, Eleanor Edwards. 1
- Elliott, Ruth, 1908- 1
- Elliott, Walter Scott. 1
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 1
- Evangelical Literature Overseas. 1
- Farah, David L. 1
- Frost, Henry Weston, 1858- 1
- Glover, Robert Hall, 1871-1947. 1
- Gospel Recordings, Inc. 1
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 1
- Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975. 1
- Hawkins, Diane W. 1
- Heimbach, Ernest E. 1
- Heimbach, Mertis B. 1
- Hoste, Dixon Edward, 1861-1946. 1
- Hunt, Bruce Finley, 1903-1992. 1
- Hurlburt, Charles E. 1
- International Missionary Council. 1
- Jesson, Daniel J. 1
- Kane, J. Herbert. 1
- Kane, Winnifred Mary Shepherd, 1912- 1
- Kantzer, Kenneth S. 1
- Kivengere, Festo. 1
- Kuhn, John Becker. 1
- LeBar, Lois E. (Lois Emogene), 1907-1997. 1
- LeBar, Mary E. (Mary Evelyn), 1910- 1
- Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961. 1
- Marini, Pierre. 1
- Mau Mau. 1
- Moody Bible Institute. 1
- Mortenson, Vernon. 1
- Narramore Christian Foundation. 1
- Palau, Luis, 1934- 1
- Paul, S. Austin. 1
- Paz Estenssoro, Víctor, 1907-2001. 1
- Pinney, John Brooke, 1806-1882. 1
- Pocket Testament League. 1
- Prairie Bible Institute. 1
- Princeton Theological Seminary. 1
- Scott Theological College. 1
- Shedd, Russell. 1
- Simpson, Clarence J. 1
- Sofala Bible Insititute (Beira, Mozambique) 1
- Springer, Charles Oliver. 1
- Springer, Marion. 1
- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 1
- Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 1
- Stam, Peter. 1
- Stough, Henry W. 1
- Stough, Paul. 1
- Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions. 1
- Sudan Interior Mission. 1
- Summer Institute of Linguistics. 1
- Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 1
- Taylor University (Upland, Ind.) 1
- Tenney, Merrill C. (Merrill Chapin), 1904-1985. 1
- Townsend, William Cameron, 1896-1982. 1
- U.S. Center for World Mission 1
- Van Dusen, George C. 1
- World Council of Churches. 1
- World Wide Pictures, Inc. 1
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 1
- Zwemer, Samuel Marinus, 1
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