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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 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
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 256 Oral History Interviews with Malcolm and Helen Sawyer
Collection
Identifier: CN 256
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Malcolm Maurice Sawyer (1919-2007) and with Helen Irvin Sawyer, in which the Sawyers discuss their childhood, education, and working for the Christian and Missionary Alliance in China, 1948-1950 and in Laos, 1950-1975. Mission activities in Laos include church planting, training of pastors, and medical assistance to the Khamu and Hmong peoples, language study, Vietnam, Thailand and Tibet, transfer to Laos, cultural differences, political situation in Vietnam,...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Collection 228 Oral History Interview with Lyndon Hess
Collection
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 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 440 Oral History Interviews with Inge Rydland
Collection
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 166 Oral History Interview with Roger Walkwitz
Collection
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 263 Oral History Interview with Margaret Carlson
Collection
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 288 Oral History Interview with Vincent L. Crossett
Collection
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 272 Papers of Jennie Fitzwilliam
Collection
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 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 409 Papers of David D. Thomas
Collection
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
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- Communism. 13
- Tribes. 13
- Children of missionaries. 12
- Evangelistic work. 11
- Missionaries. 11
- Communism -- China. 10
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 10
- Missions -- China. 10
- China -- History. 9
- Indigenous church administration 9
- Language in missionary work. 9
- Women missionaries. 9
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 8
- Missionaries -- Training of. 8
- Women -- Religious life. 8
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 7
- Christian education. 7
- Christianity and culture. 7
- Medical care 7
- Missionaries' spouses. 7
- Missions. 7
- Women 7
- Bible. 6
- Catholic Church. 6
- Church and state. 6
- Evangelistic work -- China. 6
- Missions -- Educational work. 6
- Persecution. 6
- China. 5
- Conversion. 5
- Culture shock. 5
- Education 5
- Family. 5
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 5
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 5
- Missions, Medical. 5
- Persecution -- China. 5
- Refugees 5
- Rural churches. 5
- Rural missions. 5
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 5
- Bible -- Translating. 4
- China -- Religion. 4
- Chinese -- Missions. 4
- Chinese. 4
- Christian education -- China. 4
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution. 4
- Christian literature. 4
- Church development, New. 4
- Church growth. 4
- Medical care -- China. 4
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
- Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 4
- Refugees -- China. 4
- World War, 1939-1945. 4
- Animism. 3
- Bible -- Publication and distribution. 3
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 3
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- Boarding schools. 3
- Buddhists -- China. 3
- Buddhists. 3
- Catholic Church -- Protestant churches. 3
- Children. 3
- China -- Description and travel. 3
- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 3
- China -- History -- 1949- 3
- Chinese language. 3
- Church and social problems. 3
- Intercultural communication. 3
- Interpersonal conflict. 3
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 3
- Missions -- Philippines. 3
- Missions -- Taiwan. 3
- Racism. 3
- Rural churches -- China. 3
- Sex role. 3
- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. 3
- Theology 3
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 3
- Worship. 3
- Amharic language. 2
- Catholic Church -- Missions. 2
- Catholic Church. -- China. 2
- Children -- Religious life. 2
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
- China -- Church history -- 20th century. 2
- China -- Church history. 2
- China -- Social life and customs. 2
- Christian education -- Taiwan. 2
- Christian life. 2
- Christian martyrs. 2
- Church and state -- Ethiopia. 2
- Church and state -- Vietnam. 2
- Church growth -- China. 2
- Church work with refugees. 2
- College students -- United States 2
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 2
- College students. 2
- Communism -- Ethiopia. 2 ∧ less
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) 10
- OMF International. 6
- China Inland Mission. 5
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 3
- Crossett, Margaret E. 3
- Straw, Darien A. 3
- Zhongguo guo min dang. 3
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 2
- Crossett, Vincent. 2
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 2
- Elliott, Eleanor Edwards. 2
- Elliott, Ruth, 1908- 2
- Elliott, Walter Scott. 2
- Hoste, Dixon Edward, 1861-1946. 2
- Kane, J. Herbert. 2
- Kuhn, John Becker. 2
- Moody Bible Institute. 2
- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 2
- Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 2
- Adolph, Harold Paul. 1
- Advent Christian Church. 1
- Africa Evangelical Fellowship. 1
- Aldrich, Willard. 1
- American Bible Society. 1
- Anderson, Helen, 1909-2004. 1
- Anderson, Ian Rankin. 1
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 1
- Carlson, Margaret Johanna. 1
- Carlson, Robert Dean. 1
- Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 1
- Chin, John C. 1
- Christian Medical Society. 1
- Coptic Church. 1
- Coray, Edward A. 1
- Dodds, Gilbert, 1918- 1
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
- Ekvall, Robert B. (Robert Brainerd), 1898-1983. 1
- Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus. 1
- Evangeliska fosterlands-stiftelsen. 1
- Faith Academy (Quezon City, Philippines) 1
- Far Eastern Gospel Crusade. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Francis. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Jennie. 1
- Fraser, James Outram, 1886-1938. 1
- Frost, Henry Weston, 1858- 1
- Glover, Robert Hall, 1871-1947. 1
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 1
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 1
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 1
- Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975. 1
- Hall, John F., 1906-1984. 1
- Heimbach, Ernest E. 1
- Heimbach, Mertis B. 1
- Hess, Lyndon. 1
- Hunt, Bruce Finley, 1903-1992. 1
- Jones, Clarence W. 1
- Jones, Howard O. 1
- Kane, Winnifred Mary Shepherd, 1912- 1
- Kuhn, Isobel. 1
- Larson, Reuben. 1
- Leedy, John W. 1
- Little Flock (China) 1
- Machen, J. Gresham (John Gresham), 1881-1937. 1
- McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 1
- Narramore Christian Foundation. 1
- Nee, Watchman. 1
- Orthodox Eastern Church. 1
- Philadelphia Bible Institute. 1
- Pittman, Richard S. (Richard Saunders), 1915- 1
- Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. 1
- Pocket Testament League. 1
- Prairie Bible Institute. 1
- Princeton Theological Seminary. 1
- Rydland, Inge Herman. 1
- SIM (Organization) 1
- Sawyer, Helen L. 1
- Sawyer, Malcolm M. 1
- Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 1
- Springer, Charles Oliver. 1
- Springer, Marion. 1
- Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions. 1
- Sudan Interior Mission. 1
- Summer Institute of Linguistics. 1
- Thomas, David D. 1
- Thomas, Dorothy Fowler. 1
- U.S. Center for World Mission 1
- Walkwitz, Roger W. 1
- Wang, Leland. 1
- Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. 1
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 1
- YaʾItyop̣yā qāla ḥeywat béta kerestiyān 1
- Zwemer, Samuel Marinus, 1 ∧ less
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