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Collection 255 Oral History Interview of Helen Frame

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Identifier: CN 255
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Helen Nowack Frame (1908-1999) in which she discusses her childdhood growing up in China, decision to become a missionary for Overseas Missionary Fellowship, education at Wheaton College, years of service in China, culture and political events in China; leaving China in 1951 with her husband Raymond and their children and resettlement in the Philippines, teaching at Faith Academy, development of the Bible Institute, return and activities in Wheaton. The time...
Dates: Created: 1983

Collection 286 Oral History Interview with Marilyn J. Suttie

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Identifier: CN 286
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Marilyn Joy Suttie in which she describes her work as a missionary in Cameroon with the United Presbyterian Ecumenical Mission. Topics discussed include: Suttie's childhood in China, education at Wheaton College, and short-term missionary work, mainly teaching missionary children in Cameroon. Also includes information on the Cameroon church, polygamy, Muslims in Cameroon, and medical care, and other political, social, and religious issues in Africa. The time...
Dates: Created: 1984

Collection 287 Oral History Interview with Margaret Crossett

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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 440 Oral History Interviews with Inge Rydland

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Identifier: CN 440
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Inge Herman Rydland in which he describes his family's Lutheran evangelistic work in Norway; his own call to become a missionary; his and his wife's departure to Ethiopia as workers of the Swedish Evangelical Mission in 1977; his work in Ethiopia as a teacher and as a community development work. Other topics discussed include:  the work of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Meaken Yesus; church state relations; effect of the Ethiopian political situation on the...
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 388 Oral History Interviews with Catherine Saavedra Velasco

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Identifier: CN 388
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Catherine Saavedra Velasco in which she discusses her life and ministry in the Philippines, including her childhood, education, and work as a Bible school teacher. Other topics covered include theological education and evangelism in the Philippines; work with "Here's Life Philippines," sponsored by Campus Crusade for Christ; the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church; Filipino culture; Muslim and Catholic communities in the Philippines; Ebenezer Bible College;...
Dates: Created: 1988

Collection 288 Oral History Interview with Vincent L. Crossett

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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

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 187 Papers of Eleanor R. Elliott

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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 409 Papers of David D. Thomas

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Identifier: CN 409
Scope and Contents Correspondence, photographs, negatives, and clippings relating to the linguistic and missionary work of David and Dorothy Thomas in the Philippines, Vietnam (especially with the Chrau tribe), Cambodia, and Thailand with Wycliffe Bible Translators from 1954-1975. The bulk of the content consists of David and Dorothy's letters to his mother, Ruth, who lived in Wheaton, IL. Topics covered in the correspondence include information on the Thomas family, missionary work in the Philippines, and...
Dates: Created: 1954-1975

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 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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Moody Bible Institute. 3
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 2
Crossett, Vincent. 2
Elliott, Eleanor Edwards. 2
Elliott, Ruth, 1908- 2
Elliott, Walter Scott. 2
Hoste, Dixon Edward, 1861-1946. 2
Kane, J. Herbert. 2
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. 2
McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 2
Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 2
Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 2
Straw, Darien A. 2
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
Bible Institute of the Philippines (Valenzuela, Philippines) 1
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 1
Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 1
Bosshardt, Rudolf Alfred. 1
Bright, Bill. 1
Butt, Howard E., Jr. (Howard Edward), 1927-2016. 1
Campus Crusade for Christ. 1
Chicago Evangelistic Institute. 1
China Mennonite Mission Society. 1
Christian and Missionary Alliance. 1
Christianity Today International. 1
Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
Ebenezer Bible College (Zamboanga City, Philippines) 1
Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus. 1
Evangelical Mennonite Brethren Church. 1
Evangeliska fosterlands-stiftelsen. 1
Faith Academy (Quezon City, Philippines) 1
Frame, Helen. 1
Frame, Raymond. 1
George, A. K. 1
Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 1
Hatfield, Mark O., 1922-2011. 1
Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 1
Hockman, Robert William, 1906-1935. 1
Houghton, Frank, 1894-1972. 1
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (Philippines) 1
International Nepal Fellowship. 1
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973. 1
Jones, Bob, 1883-1968. 1
Kane, Winnifred Mary Shepherd, 1912- 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. 1
Machen, J. Gresham (John Gresham), 1881-1937. 1
Manzano, Glicerio M. 1
Manzano, Rebecca. 1
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 1
Nee, Watchman. 1
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994. 1
North, G. W. 1
Nowack, Ruth Louise. 1
Ockenga, Harold John, 1905-1985. 1
Orr, J. Edwin (James Edwin), 1912- 1
Orthodox Eastern Church. 1
Pew, J. Howard (John Howard), 1882-1971. 1
Pittman, Richard S. (Richard Saunders), 1915- 1
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 1
Rydland, Inge Herman. 1
SIM (Organization) 1
Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 1
Schoerner, Otto Frederick. 1
Singh, Bakht, Brother, 1903-2000. 1
Stockwell, Dave Howard. 1
Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 1
Suttie, Marilyn J. 1
Suttie, Mary Elizabeth. 1
Suttie, Melvin. 1
Thomas, David D. 1
Thomas, Dorothy Fowler. 1
Tilley, Florence. 1
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. 1
Vaus, Jim. 1
Velasco, Catherine S. 1
WEC International. 1
Withey, Hester H. 1
Woodward, David. 1
World Council of Churches. 1
World Vision International. 1
World Wide Pictures, Inc. 1
Wycliffe Bible Translators. 1
YaʾItyop̣yā qāla ḥeywat béta kerestiyān 1
Zhou, Enlai, 1898-1976. 1
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