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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 263 Oral History Interview with Margaret Carlson

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Identifier: CN 263
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Margaret Johanna (Larson) Carlson in which she describes growing up in Ecuador as the child of missionaries, her education at Westmont and Wheaton Colleges, her nursing experience, and her missionary service with her husband at the Christian and Missionary Alliance Seminary in Hong Kong. Other topics discussed include: the founding of a HCJB radio station by her father, Reuben Larson, and her involvement in Wheaton College's HNGR Program. Individuals described...
Dates: Created: 1983

Collection 312 Papers of Diane W. Hawkins

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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

David H. Adeney Papers.

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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

Vernon W. Patterson Papers

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Identifier: CN 005
Scope and Contents Correspondence, clippings, reports, financial records, press releases, promotional material, forms, newsletters, and oral history interviews relating to Vernon W. Patterson's (1892-1991) active participation and leadership in evangelistic activities in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area. The papers focus particularly on his involvement in various evangelical lay organizations and other institutions and the early career of Billy Graham. The interviews were recorded on 3/4/85 and 3/5/85 and...
Dates: Created: 1900-1985

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 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 182 Papers of J. Herbert and Winnifred Kane

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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 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

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

Collection 218 Records of the Evangelical Missions Information Service

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Identifier: CN 218
Scope and Contents Correspondence, press releases, minutes, financial statements, reports, and photographs documenting the activities of the Evangelical Mission Information Service (EMIS), the publications arm of both the Evangelical Foreign Missions Association and the Interdenominational Foreign Missions Association. Activities documented include the publication of several mission periodicals, including Evangelical Missions Quarterly and Missionary News Service; organization of missionary conferences and...
Dates: Created: 1964-1981

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Indigenous church administration 6
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Church work with refugees. 2
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Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 5
Wheaton College (Ill.) 5
China Inland Mission. 4
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 3
Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 3
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Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 3
Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 3
Zhongguo guo min dang. 3
Bosshardt, Rudolf Alfred. 2
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 2
Christian Medical Society. 2
Christian Men's Evangelistic Clubs. 2
Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 2
Ham, M. F. (Mordecai Fowler), 1877-1961. 2
Houghton, Frank, 1894-1972. 2
Johnson, Jimmie. 2
Jones, Bob, 1883-1968. 2
Moody Bible Institute. 2
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 2
Nee, Watchman. 2
OMF International. 2
Ockenga, Harold John, 1905-1985. 2
Patterson, Vernon W., 1892-1991. 2
Patterson, Vida. 2
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 2
World Council of Churches. 2
Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 1
Adeney, Ruth W. 1
Adolph, Harold Paul. 1
Africa Inland Church. 1
Africa Inland Mission. 1
Ambassadors for Christ (Allentown, Pa.) 1
American Bible Society. 1
American Colonization Society. 1
Anderson, Peter. 1
Armitage, Carolyn. 1
Asher, Virginia Healey, 1869-1937. 1
Association of Christians Ministering Among Internationals. 1
Bacon, Daniel W. 1
Barrington College. 1
Barth, Karl, 1886-1968. 1
Becker, Carl K., Jr. 1
Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 1
Billy Graham Center. Institute for Chinese Studies. 1
Blanchard, Jonathan, 1811-1892. 1
Bright, Bill. 1
Businessmen's Evangelistic Clubs. 1
Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 1
Butt, Howard E., Jr. (Howard Edward), 1927-2016. 1
Carlson, Margaret Johanna. 1
Carlson, Robert Dean. 1
Ch'eng, Marcus, 1884-1964. 1
Chandapilla, P. T. 1
Chandler, Rosemary Joy. 1
Chao, Calvin. 1
Chao, Jonathan. 1
China Graduate School of Theology. 1
China Inter-Varsity Evangelical Christian Students Fellowship. 1
Chinese Church Research Center. 1
Chinese Congress on World Evangelization (1976 : Hong Kong) 1
Chinese World Mission Centre. 1
Christian Business Men's Committee International. 1
Christian Communications Ltd. (Hong Kong) 1
Christian Nationals Evangelism Commission, Inc. 1
Christian and Missionary Alliance. 1
Christianity Today International. 1
Chua, Wee Hian, 1939- 1
Chung, Derek. 1
Columbia Bible College (Columbia, S.C.) 1
Committee to Assist Missionary Education Overseas. 1
Congo Protestant Council. 1
Contento, Paul A. 1
Coptic Church. 1
Crossett, Margaret E. 1
Davis, Ralph T. 1
Discipleship Training Centre (Singapore) 1
Dixon, A. C. (Amzi Clarence), 1854-1925. 1
Dodds, Gilbert, 1918- 1
Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
Dowsett, Dick. 1
Draper, Ben. 1
Elliott, Eleanor Edwards. 1
Elliott, Ruth, 1908- 1
Elliott, Walter Scott. 1
English Language Institute/China. 1
Evangelical Alliance Mission. 1
Evangelical China Office. 1
Evangelical Foreign Missions Association. 1
Evangelical Literature Overseas. 1
Evangelical Missions Information Service. 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
Friends of China Fellowship. 1
Fung, Raymond. 1
Gaebelein, Arno Clemens, 1861-1945. 1
Gates, Alan Frederick, 1931- 1
Gerber, Vergil. 1
Girao, William B. 1
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