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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 169 Oral History Interviews with Harold P. Adolph

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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 052 Oral History Interview with Esther Salzman

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Identifier: CN 052
Scope and Contents

Oral history interview with Esther I. Salzman (1906-1996), a Wheaton College alumna and missionary to China in the 1940s and to the Philippines from 1950 to 1972. Topics discussed include her education at Wheaton College, medical work in China and the Philippines, and Communism in China. The time period covered by the interview is 1906 to 1978.

Esther Salzman was interviewed by Wheaton College student Fred Baker on October 28, 1978 at her home in Kankakee, IL.

Dates: Created: 1978

Collection 228 Oral History Interview with Lyndon Hess

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Identifier: CN 228
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Lyndon Roth Hess in which he describes his missionary service in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) between 1932 and 1975 as a teacher of missionary children, assistant to village pastors and other work with the Lunda people. Topics include cultural influences on missionary children, education at Wheaton College, missionary service with Brethren Assemblies in Zambia teaching children of missionaries, the national African church, tribal tensions, Marxism, influence of...
Dates: Created: 1982

Collection 315 Oral History Interview with Marie H. Little

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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 417 Papers of Dick Springer

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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 321 Papers of Glicerio M. Manzano

 Collection
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 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 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

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

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 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

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Communism -- China. 9
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Children of missionaries. 8
Indigenous church administration 8
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 7
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Christian education. 7
Medical care -- China. 7
Catholic Church. 6
Conversion. 6
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Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 5
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China -- Religion. 5
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Christian literature. 2
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Wheaton College (Ill.) 6
China Inland Mission. 5
Zhongguo guo min dang. 5
Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 4
OMF International. 4
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Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 3
Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 3
Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 2
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 2
Borden Memorial Hospital (Lanchow, China) 2
Christian Medical Society. 2
Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 2
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 2
Moody Bible Institute. 2
Nee, Watchman. 2
Ockenga, Harold John, 1905-1985. 2
Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 2
Schoerner, Otto Frederick. 2
Straw, Darien A. 2
World Council of Churches. 2
Adeney, Ruth W. 1
Adolph, Harold Paul. 1
Africa Evangelical Fellowship. 1
Africa Inland Church. 1
Africa Inland Mission. 1
Aldrich, Willard. 1
Ambassadors for Christ (Allentown, Pa.) 1
American Bible Society. 1
American Colonization Society. 1
Anderson, Peter. 1
Armitage, Carolyn. 1
Association of Christians Ministering Among Internationals. 1
Bacon, Daniel W. 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
Bosshardt, Rudolf Alfred. 1
Bright, Bill. 1
Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 1
Butt, Howard E., Jr. (Howard Edward), 1927-2016. 1
Ch'eng, Marcus, 1884-1964. 1
Chandapilla, P. T. 1
Chandler, Rosemary Joy. 1
Chao, Calvin. 1
Chao, Jonathan. 1
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
Chin, John C. 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 Communications Ltd. (Hong Kong) 1
Christian and Missionary Alliance. 1
Christianity Today International. 1
Chua, Wee Hian, 1939- 1
Chung, Derek. 1
Congo Protestant Council. 1
Contento, Paul A. 1
Coptic Church. 1
Coray, Edward A. 1
Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 1
Crossett, Margaret E. 1
Davis, Ralph T. 1
Discipleship Training Centre (Singapore) 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 Literature Overseas. 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
Frame, Raymond. 1
Friends of China Fellowship. 1
Frost, Henry Weston, 1858- 1
Fung, Raymond. 1
Gates, Alan Frederick, 1931- 1
Girao, William B. 1
Glasser, Arthur F. (Arthur Frederick), 1914- 1
Glover, Robert Hall, 1871-1947. 1
Gospel Recordings, Inc. 1
Graham, Ruth Bell. 1
Guinness, Henry, 1908- 1
Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975. 1
Hall, John F., 1906-1984. 1
Hamilton, Pauline G. 1
Hawkins, Diane W. 1
Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 1
Hess, Lyndon. 1
Hoste, Dixon Edward, 1861-1946. 1
Houghton, Frank, 1894-1972. 1
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