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Collection 266 Oral History Interview with Ruth Sundquist
Collection
Identifier: CN 266
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Ruth Sundquist in which she describes her education at Moody Bible Institute, decision to become a missionary, work first in Kentucky home missions as a Christian education worker with the Evangelical Free Church and then her missionary career in China and Hong Kong between 1947 and 1982 as an administrator for a Sunday School and orphanage. Other topics discussed include: language school in China, Chinese attitudes toward the Nationalists, Communists, Americans...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Collection 075 Oral History Interviews with Elizabeth Warner
Collection
Identifier: CN 075
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Elizabeth Howard Warner (1912-2000) in which she describes her childhood in the Canton Province of China as a daughter of missionaries, Canton Christian College where her father worked, studies and personalities at Wheaton College, her mission work among girls with Door of Hope Mission in Canton and Hong Kong, Chinese education, economic and social conditions, religion (particularly Buddhism), politics and government, the impact of China's war with Japan, and...
Dates:
Created: 1978
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 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 092 Ephemera of Robert B. Ekvall
Collection
Identifier: CN 092
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, correspondence, photographs, and a manuscript that describe Robert B. Ekvall's education at Wheaton College, work as a missionary in China and Tibet, and military and diplomatic activities during World War II and after in China and Southeast Asia.
Dates:
Created: 1933-1980
Collection 462 Oral History Interview with Adrian O. Ban
Collection
Identifier: CN 462
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Adrian Ban in which he describes his family background, the revival in his Baptist church in Oradea, Romania; his own conversion; attempts by the government to intimidate Christians; influence of Christians such as Joseph Tson, Liviu Olah, and Aurel Tosa; his involvement in music ministry in Romania; the 1989 revolution in Romania; conditions for the church since the revolution; impressions of the church in the United States and Romania; the Romanian Missionary...
Dates:
Created: 1992
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 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
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 118 Ephemera of Mordecai Ham
Collection
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 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
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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- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 4
- Zhongguo guo min dang. 4
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 2
- Ekvall, Robert B. (Robert Brainerd), 1898-1983. 2
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 2
- Jones, Bob, 1883-1968. 2
- LeBar, Lois E. (Lois Emogene), 1907-1997. 2
- Moody Bible Institute. 2
- OMF International. 2
- Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 2
- World Council of Churches. 2
- Advent Christian Church. 1
- Africa Inland Church. 1
- Africa Inland Mission. 1
- Alley, Rewi, 1897-1987. 1
- American Colonization Society. 1
- Anderson, Helen, 1909-2004. 1
- Anderson, Ian Rankin. 1
- Ban, Adrian O. 1
- Barth, Karl, 1886-1968. 1
- Becker, Carl K., Jr. 1
- Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 1
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 1
- Biserica Ortodoxă Română. 1
- Blanchard, Jonathan, 1811-1892. 1
- Bright, Bill. 1
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 1
- Bunta, Vasile. 1
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 1
- Butt, Howard E., Jr. (Howard Edward), 1927-2016. 1
- Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 1
- Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
- China Inland Mission. 1
- Christian Men's Evangelistic Clubs. 1
- Christianity Today International. 1
- Congo Protestant Council. 1
- Crossett, Margaret E. 1
- Crossett, Vincent. 1
- Davis, Ralph T. 1
- Door of Hope Mission. 1
- Elliott, Eleanor Edwards. 1
- Elliott, Ruth, 1908- 1
- Elliott, Walter Scott. 1
- Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus. 1
- Evangelical Free Church of America. 1
- Evangelical Literature Overseas. 1
- Evangeliska fosterlands-stiftelsen. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Francis. 1
- Fitzwilliam, Jennie. 1
- Fraser, James Outram, 1886-1938. 1
- Gospel Recordings, Inc. 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
- Hoste, Dixon Edward, 1861-1946. 1
- Hurlburt, Charles E. 1
- International Missionary Council. 1
- Jesson, Daniel J. 1
- Johnson, Jimmie. 1
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973. 1
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. 1
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. 1
- Kivengere, Festo. 1
- Ku Klux Klan (1915-) 1
- Kuhn, Isobel. 1
- Kuhn, John Becker. 1
- LeBar, Mary E. (Mary Evelyn), 1910- 1
- Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961. 1
- Marini, Pierre. 1
- Mau Mau. 1
- McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 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
- Ockenga, Harold John, 1905-1985. 1
- Olah, Liviu. 1
- Orthodox Eastern Church. 1
- Palau, Luis, 1934- 1
- Patterson, Vernon W., 1892-1991. 1
- Patterson, Vida. 1
- Paul, S. Austin. 1
- Pew, J. Howard (John Howard), 1882-1971. 1
- Philadelphia Bible Institute. 1
- Pinney, John Brooke, 1806-1882. 1
- Pittman, Richard S. (Richard Saunders), 1915- 1
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 1
- Ramsey, Walter J. 1
- Romanian Missionary Society. 1
- Rydland, Inge Herman. 1
- SIM (Organization) 1
- Salvation Army. 1
- Sawyer, Helen L. 1
- Sawyer, Malcolm M. 1
- Scott Theological College. 1
- Smith, Oswald J. 1
- South China Boat Mission. 1
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