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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:
Evangelism & Missions 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:
Evangelism & Missions 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:
Evangelism & Missions 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:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
David H. Adeney Papers.
Collection
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Esther Salzman Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 052
Brief Description
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Helen Renich Papers.
Collection
Identifier: CN 124
Brief Description
Two oral history interviews with Helen Gignilliat Torrey Renich in which she describes her grandfather, Reuben Archer Torrey, Sr., and her experiences growing up in China as a child of missionaries. Other topics discussed include her experiences at Wheaton College and culture shock. The collection also includes photographs of her family life in China and Chinese nationals, ca. 1920-30s.Helen Renich was interviewed by Robert Shuster on May 15, 1980 in Michigan and on May 17, 1982...
Dates:
Created: 1920-1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA) Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 352
Brief Description
Correspondence, form letters, financial and statistical reports, minutes, memos and promotional material related to IFMA administration and its service to its member missions. The files on IFMA members and numerous other Christian agencies predominate. Numerous mission-related subjects are documented, among them those related to the theoretical, theological, or practical aspects of the missionary enterprise, such as missionary aviation, the education of future missionaries, theological...
Dates:
Created: 1934-1983, undated
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Overseas Missionary Fellowship (China Inland Mission) Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 215
Brief Description
Correspondence, minutes, directories, newsletters, brochures, photographs, book manuscripts, slides, photo albums, and other materials which document the history of the North American branch of the mission. Materials cover the origins of the mission's North American branch; its church planting, evangelistic, medical, educational, and literature work in China until the time of its expulsion in 1951; its reorganization from China Inland Mission into Overseas Missionary Fellowship; its work...
Dates:
Created: 1853, 1886-1990, 2001, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1886-2001
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Small Collection 065 Papers of Joseph K. Wright
Collection
Identifier: Small CN 065
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a letter from Joseph Kingsburg Wight, missionary to China, to his brother, William Wight, describing his sea voyage to China, the condition of Shanghai, missionary endeavors in China and the Taiping Rebellion.
Dates:
Created: 1856
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Small Collection 074 Papers of Robert W. Porteous
Collection
Identifier: Small CN 074
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a prayer letter by Robert Porteous describing accounts of the activities of the church in Yichun, Jianxi Province, including an intensive Bible school and conference for women, prayer meetings for several captured Christian workers, and weekly services, all taking place in the midst of troop movements by government and communist troops, which, although disruptive, did not interfere with church activities. Also included are items about military conflict and...
Dates:
Created: 1928
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Small Collection 075 Papers of Charles Fairclough
Collection
Identifier: Small CN 075
Scope and Contents
Ths collection contains a ten-page prayer letter from Charles Fairclough, describing a tour of mission stations in Zhejiang Province, the evidence of cultural and social upheaval in the area, an evaluation of the church in China as it emerged from persecution, reflection on the political, social and cultural developments during Fairclough's 30 years of missionary work, an overview of current developments following civil war from 1926-1928, and an evaluation of China's future. Includes 4...
Dates:
Created: 1928
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Small Collection 080 Papers of Martha Pohnert
Collection
Identifier: Small CN 080
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one prayer letter from Martha Pohnert, a missionary with China Inland Mission, decribing Pohnert's Chinese co-workers, prayer needs, famine in the area, and the state of an outlying town damaged by soldiers.
Dates:
Created: 1929
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Small Collection 086 Papers of Herbert and Minnie Flagg
Collection
Identifier: Small CN 086
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two prayer letters from Herbert W. and Minnie E. Flagg, decsribing the Flaggs' work as missionaries with China Inland Mission, and political and social turmoil due to conflict between nationalist and communist forces and local robber bands, including G.M. Metcalf's being held as a hostage; Shanghai CIM compound caught in the crossfire in one instance; missionaries fleeing from the countryside; propaganda slogans; and attempts to continue work inland. Since many CIM...
Dates:
Created: 1927
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Small Collection 097 Papers of Reuben Archer Torrey, Jr.
Collection
Identifier: Small CN 097
Scope and Contents
This collection contains pamphlets, correspondence, reports and articles created by Reuben Archer Torrey, Jr. documenting his internment by the Japanese in China, the great physical and spiritual needs of the people in South Korea following the war there, and the development of the rehabilitation program under Torrey's administration.
Dates:
Created: 1942-1966
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Small Collection 110 Ephemera of Helen Stam
Collection
Identifier: Small CN 110
Scope and Contents
This collection contains newspaper clippings relating to Helen Priscilla Stam, whose missionary parents, John and Betty Stam, were killed by communist soliders in China when Helen Stam was an infant. The clippings decsribe the Stam's ministry in China; their deaths; Helen Stam's rescue by local Christians; and expresses the hopes of her grandparents that she would become a missionary.
Dates:
Created: 1934-1939
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Steven C. Preston Papers
Collection — Container: xAccession 2014-0117
Identifier: SC-223
Abstract
When Steven Preston was counting the cost of entering public, governmental service, he stated: “I had to ask myself whether I was willing to jump into a highly public position in an agency that was under attack and that had some very significant hurdles.” Despite these challenges facing him, Preston decided that he would transition into a leadership position of the Small Business Administration (SBA) in 2006. A similar question would arise again, less than two years later, when Mr. Preston...
Dates:
Created: 2005-2014; Other: Date acquired: 10/13/2014
Found in:
Special Collections
Woman's Union Missionary Society Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 379
Brief Description
Correspondence, reports, personnel files, legal documents, financial files, scrapbooks, and almost 3,000 photographs that document the activity, personnel, and ministry of the organization founded in 1860 by Mrs. Thomas C. Doremus. The mission was intended as a vehicle for sending single women as missionaries to women in closed societies (and therefore unreachable by male missionaries) in Asia, covering their medical and educational work among orphans and women in Burma, China, India,...
Dates:
Created: 1860-1983
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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- Missions -- China. 64
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- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 39
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- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 14
- Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 14
- Moody Bible Institute. 13
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 8
- Houghton, Frank, 1894-1972. 7
- Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 6
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 6
- Kuhn, Isobel. 6
- Kuhn, John Becker. 6
- Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 6
- Schoerner, Otto Frederick. 6
- Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 5
- Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 5
- Feng, Yuxiang, 1882-1948. 5
- Glasser, Arthur F. (Arthur Frederick), 1914- 5
- Glover, Robert Hall, 1871-1947. 5
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 5
- Kane, J. Herbert. 5
- Taylor, James Hudson, 1832-1905. 5
- Anderson, Helen, 1909-2004. 4
- Anderson, Ian Rankin. 4
- Borden Memorial Hospital (Lanchow, China) 4
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 4
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 4
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 4
- Frame, Raymond. 4
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 4
- Hoste, Dixon Edward, 1861-1946. 4
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 4
- Nee, Watchman. 4
- Straw, Darien A. 4
- Bible Institute of the Philippines (Valenzuela, Philippines) 3
- China Inter-Varsity Evangelical Christian Students Fellowship. 3
- Christian Medical Society. 3
- Contento, Paul A. 3
- Crossett, Margaret E. 3
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 3
- Far East Broadcasting Company. 3
- Frame, Helen. 3
- Goforth, Jonathan, 1859-1936. 3
- Goforth, Rosalind, 1864-1942. 3
- Kane, Winnifred Mary Shepherd, 1912- 3
- Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928. 3
- United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. 3
- Woods, C. Stacey, 1909-1983. 3
- Adeney, Ruth W. 2
- Allen, Isaac, 1771-1844. 2
- Baptist Missionary Society. 2
- Bentley, William Holman, 1855-1905. 2
- Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship. 2
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 2
- Bosshardt, Rudolf Alfred. 2
- Carey, William, 1761-1834. 2
- Chamberlain, John, 1777-1821. 2
- Chao, Calvin. 2
- Comber, Thomas James, 1852-1887. 2
- Cooke, Allyn B. 2
- Crossett, Vincent. 2
- Ekvall, Robert B. (Robert Brainerd), 1898-1983. 2
- Elliott, Eleanor Edwards. 2
- Elliott, Ruth, 1908- 2
- Elliott, Walter Scott. 2
- Fellowship of Evangelical Students (Singapore) 2
- Fraser, James Outram, 1886-1938. 2
- Frost, Henry Weston, 1858- 2
- Fuller, Andrew, 1754-1815. 2
- Fuller, Joseph Jackson, 1825 1908. 2
- Gemmell, Nina Eleanor. 2
- Gibb, George W. 2
- Grenfell, George, 1849-1906. 2
- Hess, Esther N. 2
- Hess, Lawrence. 2
- Hockman, Robert William, 1906-1935. 2
- Hunt, Bruce Finley, 1903-1992. 2
- Hunter, George W., 1861-1946. 2
- International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) 2
- Jones, Alfred George. 2
- Judson, Adoniram, 1788-1850. 2
- Knibb, William, 1803-1845. 2
- Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 2
- League of Evangelical Students. 2
- Liddell, Eric, 1902-1945. 2
- Machen, J. Gresham (John Gresham), 1881-1937. 2
- Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976. 2
- Marshman, Joshua, 1768-1837. 2
- McDonald, Jessie, 1888-1980. 2
- McGavran, Donald A. (Donald Anderson), 1897-1990. 2
- McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 2
- Mixter, Russell L. 2
- Moynan, Mary Goforth. 2
- Nowack, Ruth Louise. 2
- Page, Isaac. 2
- Pike, Kenneth L. (Kenneth Lee), 1912-2000. 2
- Prairie Bible Institute. 2
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 2
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