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Collection 036 Records of Gospel Recordings, Inc.
Collection
Identifier: CN-036
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, and other documents relating to the organization's work of providing Christian workers around the world with phonograph records or audio tapes of brief evangelistic programs of music, Scripture and sermons in thousands of different languages and dialects, presented by indigenous speakers of each tongue. Most of the correspondence is between the staff of Gospel Recordings and Christian workers in different countries, such as missionary to Africa Paul White, requesting...
Dates:
Created: 1939-1978
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 051 Papers of Katharine H. Schoerner
Collection
Identifier: CN 051
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Katherine Hastings Dodd Schoerner for the Missionary Sources Collection at the BGC Archives, in which she describes her experiences as a missionary with China Inland Mission from 1931-1951. Also included the collection are five letters written during her ministry in China describing her life there.Katharine Schoerner was interviewed by Wheaton College student Gary Ziccardi on October 20, 1978 at her home in Evergreen Park. Topics covered in the interview...
Dates:
Created: 1978
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
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
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
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 other...
Dates:
Created: 1978
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 080 Papers of Miriam J. Dunn
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: CN 080
Scope and Contents
Collection contians a manuscript of I Get Your Message, Father, written by Miriam J. Dunn relating her missionary experiences in China and Southeast Asia with China Inland Mission (CIM) (319 pp.) Topics include her childhood in China, nurses training in England, language school in China, marriage, work with Christian Witness Press in Hong Kong, and missionary work in Malaysia. The manuscript is typed on 319 pages, 8" x 11" size bond paper and contains...
Dates:
Created: 1978
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 088 Papers of Paul and Catharine Gieser
Collection
Identifier: CN-088
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Kenneth Gieser and letters reporting to the Southern Presbyterian Mission Board in Nashville, TN on the Gieser’s work in China, written between October 19, 1934, and November 1, 1936. Also contains audio tapes and transcripts of autobiographical statements.
Dates:
Created: 1934-1979
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 164 Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Small
Collection
Identifier: CN 164
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Elizabeth Stair Small in which she describes her missionary experiences in China between the earliest communist revolutions; includes customs, evangelizing methods, assistance of Chinese Christians in areas of central China; post-war pastoring in the U.S. The time period covered by the interviews is 1904-1980.
Elizabeth Small was interviewed by Robert Shuster on October 28, 1980 at the Billy Graham Center Archives at Wheaton College.
Elizabeth Small was interviewed by Robert Shuster on October 28, 1980 at the Billy Graham Center Archives at Wheaton College.
Dates:
Created: 1980
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 165 Records of Evangelical Fellowship of Mission Agencies
Collection
Identifier: CN-165
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, minutes, audio tapes, clippings, photographs, maps, posters, etc., related to EFMA Administration and its service to its member missions.Includes documentation of persecution of Protestants in Roman Catholic Colombia, Italy and Spain; efforts to broaden American awareness of conditions; and attempts to apply pressure through the US State Dept. Persons prominently featured include EFMA's Executive Directors Clyde Taylor, Wade Coggins, and Paul McKaughan. ...
Dates:
Created: 1937-1996
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
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 time...
Dates:
Created: 1981
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
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 is...
Dates:
Created: 1910-1988
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 205 Oral History Interviews with Robert D. Carlson
Collection
Identifier: CN 205
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Robert Dean Carlson in which he discusses his childhood in China and Tibet, the condition of the Christian church in those countries, social and religious customs, and the Chinese language. The time period covered by the interviews is 1928 to 1982.
Robert Carlson was interviewed by Robert Shuster on February 27 and April 17, 1982.
Robert Carlson was interviewed by Robert Shuster on February 27 and April 17, 1982.
Dates:
Created: 1982
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
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
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 208 Oral History Interview with Doris Embery
Collection
Identifier: CN 208
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Doris Embery in which she discusses the activities of her parents, who were China Inland Mission workers; her education at the CIM school in Chefoo; her reflections on the lack of uniqueness of missionary children; her work with Scripture Union, experiences as a missionary for Overseas Missionary Fellowship in Hong Kong, and her experiences after she left China. The time period covered by the interviews is 1916 to 1957.Doris Embery was interviewed by...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 225 Records of the Baptista Film Mission
Collection
Identifier: CN 225
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, diaries, newsletters, scripts, catalogs, films, and other material related to the work of the Baptista Film Mission. This collection contains much information on the beginnings of the Protestant evangelical Christian film industry. Included are films featured are evangelical and fundamentalist figures like V. Raymond Edman, Billy Graham, Henry A. Ironside, Bob Jones Jr., Paul Rader, Oswald J. Smith, and Walter Wilson and nondenominational organizations. Subjects documented...
Dates:
Created: 1908-1977; Majority of material found in 1939-1963
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 231 Papers of Ian and Helen Anderson
Collection
Identifier: CN 231
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, diaries, articles, clippings, manuscripts, photographs, photo albums, songbooks, lecture and sermon notes, maps, audio tapes, etc. related to the Ian and Helen Anderson's mission work with the Overseas Missionary Fellowship. The materials document their careers in China until 1951, in Taiwan until 1956, and in the Philippines until 1971, and again in Taiwan until 1974. Materials also reflect their work as regional representatives for OMF following their retirement in 1974....
Dates:
Created: 1928-1995
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 255 Oral History Interview of Helen Frame
Collection
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 period...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
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
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
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
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 272 Papers of Jennie Fitzwilliam
Collection
Identifier: CN
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
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 318 Papers of L. Nelson Bell
Collection
Identifier: CN-318
Dates:
1923-1973
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 379 Records of the Woman's Union Missionary Society
Collection
Identifier: CN-379
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, personnel files, legal documents, financial files, scrapbooks, almost 3,000 photographs.
Topics documented include the creation and activity of the mission work in Burma, China, India, Pakistan, and Japan, its work among orphans and women.
Topics documented include the creation and activity of the mission work in Burma, China, India, Pakistan, and Japan, its work among orphans and women.
Dates:
Created: 1860-1983
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 470 Oral History Interview with Sadie Custer
Collection
Identifier: CN 470
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Sadie Custer (1911-2007) in which she discusses her childhood, conversion, education at Moody Bible Institute, joining the China Inland Mission, arrival in China in 1936, the Chinese language, work in Shensi province, Bible teaching, transition from missionary to Chinese leadership, the Three Self Movement, the Communist revolution in China and its effect on missions, the Sino-Japanese Conflict, work in Malaysia among Chinese, living in an area in Malaysia contested...
Dates:
Created: 1992
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 677 Papers of Beatrice Sutherland
Collection
Identifier: CN 677
Scope and Contents
Materials in this collection include correspondence, newsletters, memoranda, photographs, and a church directory relating to the ministry of Beatrice Sutherland, a missionary to China with the China Inland Mission beginning in 1938 during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The materials also span her later activities as a Christian worker living in California after her retirement from full-time missionary service in 1976.
Dates:
Created: 1938-2006
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 678 Oral History Interview with Helen Grace Madeira Cox
Collection
Identifier: CN 678
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Helen Grace Madeira Cox (1921-2019), missionary in China from 1947-1951 and Northern Thailand 1953-1973 with China Inland Mission (later Overseas Missionary Fellowship). Topics discussed include Cox's childhood experiences and early faith in the Church of the Brethren; call to missionary work; education at Columbia Bible College and Wheaton College; teaching Bible in Virginia public schools; attending Missionary Medical Institute and Wycliffe’s Summer Institute of...
Dates:
2014
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 680 Papers of the Almond Family
Collection
Identifier: CN 680
Scope and Contents
Diaries and oral history interviews documenting the work of Overseas Missionary Fellowship (China Inland Mission) workers Louis Almond, his first wife Stella and his second wife Helen in China (1949-1951), Thailand and the United States. Helen’s interview also describes the activities of the United States office of OMF, where she worked for many years.
Dates:
1949-1951, 2015-2016
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
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
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
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