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Malcolm and Helen Sawyer Oral History Interviews

 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

Margaret Crossett Oral History Interview

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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

Marie H. Little Oral History Interview

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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

Roger and Mary Howes Papers

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Identifier: CN 562
Scope and Contents Address books, articles, autograph books, birthday book, correspondence, diaries, documents, journals, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, notebooks, photographs, prayer letters, scrapbooks, sermon notes, songbooks, and testimony which document the Howes' work as China Inland Mission (CIM) missionaries in China from 1925 through 1945, and their work at CIM (later Overseas Missionary Fellowship) office in Chicago and Headquarters in Philadelphia before they retired in 1965. Their correspondence...
Dates: Created: 1899-1993

Vincent L. Crossett Oral History Interview

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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

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Bible -- Study and teaching. 4
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 4
China -- Social life and customs. 4
Christian education -- China. 4
Missionaries -- Training of. 4
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Women -- Religious life. 4
Women missionaries. 4
Buddhists -- China. 3
Children of missionaries. 3
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 3
China -- Religion. 3
Christian literature -- Publishing. 3
Evangelistic work -- China. 3
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 3
Missionaries' spouses. 3
Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 3
Bible -- Publication and distribution. 2
Bible -- Translating. 2
China -- Description and travel. 2
China -- History -- 1912-1937. 2
China -- History -- 1949- 2
Christian education -- Taiwan. 2
Christianity and culture. 2
Church and state -- China. 2
Church development, New. 2
Conversion -- Christianity. 2
Crime and criminals -- China. 2
Culture shock. 2
Families. 2
Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
Indigenous church administration -- Taiwan. 2
Medical care -- China. 2
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
Missionaries, Resignation of. 2
Missions -- Taiwan. 2
Public worship -- Christianity. 2
Refugees -- China. 2
Religious institutions. 2
Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 2
Tribes. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni -- Oral history. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
Ancestor worship -- China. 1
Animism. 1
Atheism. 1
Baptists -- Missions. 1
Bible -- Evidences, authority, etc. 1
Bible colleges -- Laos. 1
Bible colleges -- United States. 1
Buddhism -- Laos. 1
Capital punishment. 1
Catholic Church -- China. 1
Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 1
Children of missionaries -- Education. 1
China -- History -- Revolution, 1911-1912. 1
Chinese language. 1
Chongqing (China) 1
Christian leadership. 1
Christianity and politics. 1
Church and social problems. 1
Church and state -- Indochina. 1
Church and state -- Vietnam. 1
Church growth -- China. 1
Church growth -- Laos. 1
Church schools -- Laos. 1
Church work with refugees -- Thailand. 1
Church work with refugees -- United States. 1
Communism -- Laos. 1
Communism -- Vietnam. 1
Education -- China. 1
Education -- Laos. 1
Education -- Taiwan. 1
Emigration and immigration. 1
Ethnocentrism. 1
Ethnomusicology. 1
Evangelistic work -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. 1
Evangelistic work -- Laos. 1
Evangelistic work -- Taiwan. 1
Evangelistic work -- United States. 1
Exorcism. 1
France -- Colonies -- Asia. 1
French language. 1
Hmong (Asian people) 1
Hmong language. 1
Idols and images. 1
Indochina -- History -- 1945- 1
Intercultural communication. 1
Interpersonal conflict. 1
Jews -- China. 1
Khmu' (Southeast Asian people) 1
Khmu' language. 1
Laos -- Religion. 1
Laos -- Social life and customs. 1
Leprosy. 1
Mass media in missionary work. 1
Medical care -- United States. 1
Missions -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. 1
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OMF International. 4
China Inland Mission. 3
Wheaton College (Ill.) 3
Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 2
Christian and Missionary Alliance. 2