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Collection 472 Oral History Interview with Paul A. Contento

 Collection
Identifier: CN 472
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Paul A. Contento in which he discusses his childhood, conversion, attendance at Moody Bible Institute, going to China in 1928 as a China Inland Mission worker, evangelistic work in Ningxia province (Inner Mongolia) and work among university students in southwest and northwest China, founding of the Inter-Varsity student movements in China, Singapore and Vietnam; Calvin Chao; the Sino-Japanese war; the communist takeover in China; founding of Singapore Bible...
Dates: Created: 19992

Collection 470 Oral History Interview with Sadie Custer

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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 535 Oral History Interview with Mona Joyce

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Identifier: CN 535
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Mona Miller Joyce (1912-2000) in which she describes her childhood and youth, conversion and spiritual development, call to missionary work, family, work in China with China Inland Mission, husband Raymond Joyce, the Communist period in China and CIM's expulsion from the country, co-workers Dr. Jessie McDonald and Mabel Soltau, Pentecostalism, relations among missionaries, her role as a woman missionary, outreach to Muslims, their work in the Persian Gulf with...
Dates: Created: 1996

Collection 450 Oral History Interviews with Vasile Bunta

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Identifier: CN 450
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Vasile Bunta in which he decsribes his family background, the Baptist church in Romania, relations between church and state, his conversion and education, Billy Graham's visit to the country in 1985, the Christian revival of the 1970s in Romania, the effect of the 1989 revolution on the church, evangelistic work among the Romani people, and the current state of the Church. The time period covered by the interviews is 1960 to 1991.Vasile Bunta was...
Dates: Created: 1991

Collection 321 Papers of Glicerio M. Manzano

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Identifier: CN 321
Scope and Contents The collection consists of prayer letters and oral history interviews, which document Glicerio M. Jojo Manzano's early life, education, family life, and work as a service manager with Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship and as an accountant for a rural hospital with International Nepal Fellowship.Series 1: Audio TapesThree oral history interviews with Glicerio Manzano. Topics discussed in the interview include Manzano's early life, education,...
Dates: Created: 1981-1992

Collection 166 Oral History Interview with Roger Walkwitz

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Identifier: CN 166
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Roger Walkwitz in which he describes his early life in Wheaton, Illinois, education at Wheaton College, and experiences of 23 years in the Philippines (1958-1980) as a missionary with Far Eastern Gospel Crusade.  Other topics discussed include: the influence of Gil Dodds; the 1950 Wheaton College revival; work as a teacher-coach at Bryan College; aspects of cultural, religious and political life in the Philippines, including ranslation, church planting in the...
Dates: Created: 1980

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 272 Papers of Jennie Fitzwilliam

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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 418 Papers of Hester H. Withey

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Identifier: CN 418
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews and a manuscript, documenting the ministry of Hester Hartzell Withey, missionary with Worldwide Evangelisation for Christ International (WEC) in China and India from 1940-1985.Series: Audio TapesOral history interviews with Hester Withey in which she describes her parents’ and grandparents’ missionary service in Angola, her childhood in Africa and the U.S., education in South Africa, conversion, medical training,...
Dates: Created: 1989

Collection 118 Ephemera of Mordecai Ham

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Identifier: CN 118
Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence, oral history interviews, newspaper clippings, microfilm, periodicals, photographs, sermon transcripts and notebooks. It documents in a non-comprehensive way Ham’s preaching style, some of his evangelistic meetings; his campaigns against Roman Catholics, Jews, evolution, and for the prohibition of alcohol and the racial hierarchy in the American South. There is in particular a great deal of material about the 1934 meetings in Charlotte when Billy...
Dates: Created: 1875-1983; Majority of material found within 1915-1934

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

L. Nelson Bell Papers

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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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Evangelistic work. 11
Conversion. 10
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 9
Missionaries. 9
Women missionaries. 8
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Communism -- China. 7
Missions -- China. 7
Children of missionaries. 6
Evangelistic work -- China. 6
Persecution. 6
Women 6
Women -- Religious life. 6
Christian education. 5
Christianity and culture. 5
Church and state. 5
Indigenous church administration 5
Language in missionary work. 5
Missionaries -- Training of. 5
Revivals. 5
Catholic Church. 4
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 4
China -- History. 4
Evangelistic work -- United States. 4
Family. 4
Missions. 4
Baptism. 3
Bible colleges. 3
Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
China -- Religion. 3
China. 3
Christianity and culture -- China. 3
Church and social problems. 3
Culture shock. 3
Medical care 3
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 3
Missionaries' spouses. 3
Missions, Medical. 3
Pentecostalism. 3
Persecution -- China. 3
Prayer. 3
Rural missions. 3
Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 3
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Bible colleges -- United States. 2
Bible. 2
Caste. 2
Caste. -- Nepal. 2
Catholic Church. -- Philippines. 2
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China -- Description and travel. 2
China -- History -- 1949- 2
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 2
Chinese -- Missions. 2
Christian education -- China. 2
Church and state -- China. 2
Church work with students. 2
Church work with youth. 2
College students. 2
Communism -- Philippines. 2
Evangelicalism. 2
Evangelistic work -- Philippines. 2
Fund raising. 2
Fundamentalism. 2
Idols and images. 2
Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
Intercultural communication. 2
Marriage. 2
Medical care -- China. 2
Missionaries -- Salaries, etc. 2
Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
Missions -- Educational work. 2
Missions -- Philippines. 2
Missions -- Taiwan. 2
Missions to Muslims. 2
Race relations. 2
Rural churches. 2
Tribes. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
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African Americans -- Social conditions. 1
African Americans. 1
Anglo-Israelism 1
Animism -- Zimbabwe. 1
Animism. 1
Anti-communist movements. 1
Athletes 1
Athletes -- Religious life. 1
Authors and publishers -- United States. 1
Authors and publishers. 1
Baptists -- Romania. 1
Baptists. 1
Bible -- Evidences, authority, etc. 1
Bible -- Sermons. 1
Bible -- Study and teaching. 1
Bible -- Translating. 1
Bible colleges -- China. 1
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Moody Bible Institute. 4
OMF International. 4
Wheaton College (Ill.) 4
Zhongguo guo min dang. 4
Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 3
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Evangelical Alliance Mission. 2
Jones, Bob, 1883-1968. 2
Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 1
Advent Christian Church. 1
Bartel, Loyal. 1
Bartel, Susan Schultz. 1
Barth, Karl, 1886-1968. 1
Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 1
Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship. 1
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 1
Biserica Ortodoxă Română. 1
Bright, Bill. 1
Bunta, Vasile. 1
Butt, Howard E., Jr. (Howard Edward), 1927-2016. 1
Ceausescu, Nicolae. 1
Chao, Calvin. 1
Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 1
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
Chicago Evangelistic Institute. 1
China Inland Mission. 1
China Inter-Varsity Evangelical Christian Students Fellowship. 1
China Mennonite Mission Society. 1
Christian Men's Evangelistic Clubs. 1
Christian and Missionary Alliance. 1
Christianity Today International. 1
Church, Donald Lee, 1934-2020. 1
Contento, Maida. 1
Contento, Paul A. 1
Custer, Sadie. 1
Dodds, Gilbert, 1918- 1
Egypt General Mission. 1
Evangelical Mennonite Brethren Church. 1
Far Eastern Gospel Crusade. 1
Fellowship of Evangelical Students (Singapore) 1
Fellowship of Faith for Muslims. 1
Fitzwilliam, Francis. 1
Fitzwilliam, Jennie. 1
Fraser, James Outram, 1886-1938. 1
George, A. K. 1
Glover, Robert Hall, 1871-1947. 1
Gray, James M. 1
Ham, M. F. (Mordecai Fowler), 1877-1961. 1
Hanke, Billie. 1
Hawkins, Diane W. 1
Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 1
Houghton, Frank, 1894-1972. 1
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (Philippines) 1
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) 1
International Nepal Fellowship. 1
Interserve. 1
Jesson, Daniel J. 1
Johnson, Jimmie. 1
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973. 1
Joyce, Mona M. 1
Joyce, Raymond H. 1
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915-) 1
Kuhn, Isobel. 1
Kuhn, John Becker. 1
LeBar, Lois E. (Lois Emogene), 1907-1997. 1
LeBar, Mary E. (Mary Evelyn), 1910- 1
Manzano, Glicerio M. 1
Manzano, Rebecca. 1
McDonald, Jessie, 1888-1980. 1
McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 1
McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944. 1
Mortenson, Vernon. 1
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 1
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994. 1
North, G. W. 1
Ockenga, Harold John, 1905-1985. 1
Olah, Liviu. 1
Orthodox Eastern Church. 1
Page, Isaac. 1
Patterson, Vernon W., 1892-1991. 1
Patterson, Vida. 1
Pew, J. Howard (John Howard), 1882-1971. 1
Philadelphia Bible Institute. 1
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 1
Rader, Paul, 1879-1938. 1
Ramsey, Walter J. 1
Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 1
Schoerner, Otto Frederick. 1
Second Baptist Church (Oradea, Romania) 1
Singapore Bible College. 1
Singh, Bakht, Brother, 1903-2000. 1
Smith, Oswald J. 1
Soltau, Mabel E. 1
Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 1
Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 1
Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 1
Taylor University (Upland, Ind.) 1
Tenney, Merrill C. (Merrill Chapin), 1904-1985. 1
Tilley, Florence. 1
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