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Christians Supporting Community Organizing

 Collection
Identifier: SC-200
Dates: Other: Date acquired: 07/21/2015

Eleanor R. Elliott Papers

 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

Elizabeth Warner Oral History Interviews

 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

Esther Hess Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 232
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, photographs, and articles relating to Esther Hess's missionary work as a nurse in China with China Inland Mission from 1931 to 1945. The materials not only document Hess's missionary career, but also the Sino-Japanese war and her confinement to a Japanese internment camp from 1942-1945.

Dates: Created: 1931-1959; Majority of material found in 1931-1941

Fredrik Franson Papers Microfilm

 Collection
Identifier: CN 087
Scope and Contents Microfilm copy of correspondence, reports, excerpts from sermons and other writings collected by Rev. Edward P. Torjesen on the life and ministry of Fredrik Franson (1852-1908). Materials include articles written about evangelistic work, prophecy conferences, missionary efforts on several continents, and the recruitment of Christian workers. Persons featured include mission founders A.B. Simpson and James Hudson Taylor. Materials include articles in several languages. Documents are arranged...
Dates: Created: 1872-1909

Harold P. Adolph Oral History Interviews

 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

Helen Frame Oral History Interview

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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...
Dates: Created: 1983

Helen M. Tenney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 044
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, scrapbook, drafts, articles, and research notes which reflect Tenney's active participation in a number of evangelical ministries, but particularly her work with the Woman's Union Missionary Society (WUMS), especially the labor she put into writing a history of that organization. The bulk of the collection consists of manuscripts of that history.

Dates: Created: 1882-1980

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

Ian and Helen Anderson Papers

 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

J. Herbert and Winnifred Kane Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 182
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and curriculum material from James Herbert Kane and Winnifred Mary (Shepherd) Kane's missiology courses, and three oral history interviews. Materials document the Kanes' missionary work in China and Dr. Kane's teaching in the U.S.  Events described in the interviews cover the time period from 1932 to 1950.

Dates: Created: 1934-1987

Jennie Fitzwilliam Papers Papers

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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

Jessie McDonald Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 246
Scope and Contents Correspondence, diaries, notes, articles, photographs, and annual reports relating to Jessie McDonald's medical work in China from 1913-1952 with China Inland Mission. The documents include information on evangelistic outreach and the nature of health conditions in China. The materials also describe the political and social upheavals occurring in China during the first half of the 1900s.The correspondence by Dr. Mc Donald is supplemented by some correspondence of her co-workers...
Dates: Created: 1907-1951

John C. Chin Oral History Interview

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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

Malcolm and Helen Sawyer Oral History Interviews

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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

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

Marilyn J. Suttie Oral History Interview

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Identifier: CN 286
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Marilyn Joy Suttie in which she describes her work as a missionary in Cameroon with the United Presbyterian Ecumenical Mission. Topics discussed include: Suttie's childhood in China, education at Wheaton College, and short-term missionary work, mainly teaching missionary children in Cameroon. Also includes information on the Cameroon church, polygamy, Muslims in Cameroon, and medical care, and other political, social, and religious issues in Africa. The time...
Dates: Created: 1984

Martha H. Philips Oral History Interview

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Identifier: CN 314
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Martha H. Philips (1905-1996) in which she describes her childhood, education, missionary work in China with China Inland Mission at Chefoo School as a teacher of missionary children, her internment by the Japanese at Temple Hill and Wei Xian camps, repatriation, working with Wycliffe Bible Translators among the Zapotec Indians in southern Mexico, and traveling throughout the world representing the mission. The time period covered by the interviews is roughly...
Dates: Created: 1985

Mary Goforth Moynan Papers

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Identifier: CN 189
Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous personal papers, an autobiography, oral history interviews and color slides relating to the ministry of Mary Goforth Moynan. Topics covered include Moynan's memories of the personalities and work of her parents, Jonathan and Rosalind Goforth; evangelistic work in China before World War II; her own career in Christian work; and her trips in 1979 to Taiwan and in 1980 to the People's Republic of China.

Dates: Created: 1918-1994

Moody Church Records

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Identifier: CN-330
Brief Description Correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, church bulletins, minutes of meetings, and other records documenting the activities of the influential independent Chicago church started in 1864 by Dwight L. Moody; chiefly from ca. 1910 through 1946. Topics documented include worship services, Sunday school, the weekly activities in the congregation, the governance of the body, and various urban evangelistic outreaches of the church. Besides the history of the church, the collection also documents such...
Dates: Created: 1864-1987

Overseas Missionary Fellowship (China Inland Mission) Records

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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

Paul and Catharine Gieser Papers

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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

Reuben Archer Torrey, III Papers

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Identifier: CN 331
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Reuben Archer Torrey III and a videotape of the Otterbein United Brethren Missionary Convention in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania on April 23, 1986.Audio TapesOral history interview with Reuben Archer Torrey in which he describes his childhood in China as the son of Presbyterian missionaries; his experiences at boarding schools in China and Korea; his grandfather, Dr. R. A. Torrey, Sr.; his work as an Episcopalian...
Dates: Created: 1986

Reuben Archer Torrey, Sr., Collection

 Collection
Identifier: CN 107
Scope and Contents

Diaries, correspondence, sermon notes, Sunday school lessons, newspaper clippings, brochures, memorial booklet, photographs, diaries, audio tapes, and glass negatives from R.A. Torrey's career as evangelist, teacher, author, and family man.

Dates: Created: 1882-1983

Robert D. Carlson Oral History Interviews

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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.

Dates: Created: 1982

Robert W. Porteous Prayer Letter

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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

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

Ruth Sundquist Oral History Interview

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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

Sadie Custer Oral History Interview

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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...
Dates: Created: 1992

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

Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Records

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Identifier: CN-003
Brief Description Correspondence, proposals, reports, minutes, programs, publications brochures, budgets, audio tapes, clippings, photographs, and video tapes related to the founding, groundbreaking and dedication and continuing work of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College as a research and training center in evangelism, and its ongoing activities. Includes audio and video recordings of Center-sponsored conferences (on themes including evangelism and evangelistic preaching, outreach to various...
Dates: Created: 1919-2007

Woman's Union Missionary Society Records

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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

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Evangelism & Missions Archives 31
Special Collections 1
 
Subject
Evangelistic work -- China. 29
Missions -- China. 29
Women missionaries. 24
Women -- Religious life. 22
Communism -- China. 20
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China -- History -- 1937-1945. 19
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 18
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945. 16
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 15
Language in missionary work. 15
Christian education -- China. 14
Conversion -- Christianity. 14
World War, 1939-1945. 14
China -- Religion. 12
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 12
Christianity and culture. 11
Medical care -- China. 11
Missions -- Educational work. 11
Indigenous church administration -- China. 10
Missionaries -- Training of. 10
China -- History -- 1912-1937. 9
Chinese -- Missions. 9
Rural churches -- China. 9
Children of missionaries. 8
China -- History -- 1949- 8
Church and state -- China. 8
Evangelistic work -- United States. 8
Missions -- Study and teaching. 8
Bible -- Study and teaching. 7
Bible -- Translating. 7
China -- Description and travel. 7
Christian life. 7
Families. 7
Missions, Medical. 7
Refugees -- China. 7
Religious institutions. 7
Boarding schools -- China. 6
Buddhists -- China. 6
China -- History. 6
Christian leadership. 6
Church work with women -- China. 6
Culture shock. 6
Education -- China. 6
Evangelistic sermons. 6
Hospitals -- China. 6
Missionaries -- United States. 6
Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 6
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni -- Oral history. 6
Children of missionaries -- China. 5
Christian education -- United States. 5
Church and social problems. 5
Fundamentalism. 5
Missionaries' spouses. 5
Missionaries, Resignation of. 5
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 5
Missions -- Japan. 5
Missions -- Philippines. 5
Missions -- Taiwan. 5
Persecution -- China. 5
Presbyterians. 5
Rural missions -- China. 5
Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 5
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 5
Bible colleges -- China. 4
Chinese language. 4
Chinese. 4
Christian education -- Philippines. 4
Christian education -- Taiwan. 4
Church development, New. 4
Church work with children -- China. 4
Evangelistic work -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. 4
Evangelistic work -- Japan. 4
Missions -- Biblical teaching. 4
Missions -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. 4
Missions -- India. 4
Missions, Medical -- China. 4
Organizational change. 4
Prisoners of war -- China. 4
Public worship -- Christianity. 4
Revivals. 4
Rural missions. 4
Sex role -- China. 4
Sex role. 4
Social change. 4
Baptists -- Missions. 3
Bible -- Publication and distribution. 3
Catholic Church -- China. 3
Children of missionaries -- Education. 3
China -- Church history -- 20th century. 3
China -- Economic conditions. 3
China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901. 3
China -- Politics and government. 3
China -- Social life and customs. 3
Christian education of adults. 3
Christian education of children. 3
Christian literature -- Publishing -- China. 3
Christian literature -- Publishing. 3
Christian martyrs -- China. 3
Church growth -- China. 3
Church work with children. 3
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Names
China Inland Mission. 17
Zhongguo guo min dang. 14
Wheaton College (Ill.) 12
OMF International. 11
Shuster, Robert D. 11
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Moody Bible Institute. 9
Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 6
Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 6
Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 5
Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 4
Kuhn, Isobel. 4
Bible Institute of the Philippines (Valenzuela, Philippines) 3
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 3
Christian and Missionary Alliance. 3
Ericksen, Paul. 3
Feng, Yuxiang, 1882-1948. 3
Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 3
Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928. 3
Anderson, Helen, 1909-2004. 2
Anderson, Ian Rankin. 2
Assemblies of God. 2
Bible Institute of Los Angeles. 2
Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 2
Borden Memorial Hospital (Lanchow, China) 2
Borden, William, 1887-1913. 2
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 2
Christian Medical Society. 2
Crossett, Margaret E. 2
Doremus, Sarah Platt, 1803-1877. 2
Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 2
Evangelical Alliance Mission. 2
Far East Broadcasting Company. 2
Frame, Raymond. 2
Fraser, James Outram, 1886-1938. 2
Gibb, George W. 2
Glover, Robert Hall, 1871-1947. 2
Graham, Ruth Bell. 2
Hockman, Robert William, 1906-1935. 2
Hoste, Dixon Edward, 1861-1946. 2
Houghton, Frank, 1894-1972. 2
Kane, J. Herbert. 2
Kuhn, John Becker. 2
Margaret Williamson Hospital (Shanghai, China) 2
Marston, Sarah Hall. 2
Moody, Dwight Lyman, 1837-1899. 2
National Association of Evangelicals. 2
Nee, Watchman. 2
Paddon, Beth Jaderquist. 2
Renich-Meyers, Jill. 2
Salvation Army. 2
Schoerner, Otto Frederick. 2
Straw, Darien A. 2
Sudan Interior Mission. 2
Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 2
Taichung Bible Institute (Taiwan) 2
Taylor, James Hudson, 1832-1905. 2
Torrey, Reuben Archer, III, 1918-2002. 2
Woman’s Union Missionary Society of America for Heathen Lands. 2
Yu-Shan Theological Institute (Li Yu Tan, Taiwan) 2
Ackerman Hoyt Memorial Hospital (Jhansi, India) 1
Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 1
Adolph, Harold Paul. 1
Advent Christian Church. 1
Africa Inland Mission. 1
Alexander, Charles M. 1
Allen, Roland, 1869-1947. 1
Allison, Lon (Lon J.), 1952-2019. 1
American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 1
American Bible Society. 1
Anderson, Mark. 1
Armerding, Hudson T. 1
Asian Theological Seminary. 1
Bangkok Bible College (1971-) (Bangkok, Thailand) 1
Barna, George. , 1954- 1
Barrington College. 1
Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 1
Beougher, Timothy K. (Timothy Ken) 1
Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship. 1
Billy Graham Center. 1
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 1
Billy Graham Training Center at the Cove (Asheville, N.C.) 1
Bingham, Rowland V., 1872-1942. 1
Blanchard, J. L. (Julia L.) 1
Bosshardt, Rudolf Alfred. 1
Bridgman Memorial School (Shanghai, China) 1
COSIM (Coalition on the Support of Indigenous Ministries) (1996-) 1
Carlson, Robert Dean. 1
Central American Mission. 1
Chafer, Lewis Sperry, 1871-1952. 1
Chapei Civil Assembly Center (Shanghai, China) 1
Childress, Marion Elizabeth. 1
Chin, John C. 1
China Inter-Varsity Evangelical Christian Students Fellowship. 1
China International Famine Relief Commission. 1
Christian School in Japan (1950-) 1
Church of England. 1
Clark, Gordon H. (Gordon Haddon), 1902-1985. 1
Cleveland, Jeannette Rosalie, 1902-1959 1
Coleman, Robert E., 1928- 1
College Church in Wheaton (Ill.) 1
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