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Christians Supporting Community Organizing
Collection
Identifier: SC-200
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 07/21/2015
Found in:
Special Collections
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Helen Frame Oral History Interview
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...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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
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
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Jennie Fitzwilliam Papers Papers
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
John C. Chin Oral History Interview
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:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Marie H. Little Oral History Interview
Collection
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Martha H. Philips Oral History Interview
Collection
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Mary Goforth Moynan Papers
Collection
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Moody Church Records
Collection
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
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
Paul and Catharine Gieser Papers
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:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Reuben Archer Torrey, III Papers
Collection
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Robert D. Carlson Oral History Interviews
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.
Dates:
Created: 1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Robert W. Porteous Prayer Letter
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
Roger and Mary Howes Papers
Collection
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Ruth Sundquist Oral History Interview
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Sadie Custer Oral History Interview
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...
Dates:
Created: 1992
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Vincent L. Crossett Oral History Interview
Collection
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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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- Evangelistic work -- China. 26
- Women missionaries. 23
- Women -- Religious life. 20
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 19
- Communism -- China. 19
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 17
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945. 16
- Language in missionary work. 15
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 14
- Christian education -- China. 14
- Conversion -- Christianity. 14
- World War, 1939-1945. 14
- China -- Religion. 12
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 12
- Medical care -- China. 11
- Missions -- Educational work. 11
- Christianity and culture. 10
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 10
- Missionaries -- Training of. 10
- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 9
- Chinese -- Missions. 9
- Rural churches -- China. 9
- China -- History -- 1949- 8
- Church and state -- China. 8
- Bible -- Translating. 7
- Children of missionaries. 7
- China -- Description and travel. 7
- Christian life. 7
- Missions -- Study and teaching. 7
- Missions, Medical. 7
- Refugees -- China. 7
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 6
- Boarding schools -- China. 6
- Buddhists -- China. 6
- China -- History. 6
- Church work with women -- China. 6
- Culture shock. 6
- Education -- China. 6
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 6
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- Missionaries -- United States. 6
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- Christian leadership. 5
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- Evangelistic work -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Japan. 4
- Fundamentalism. 4
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- Missions -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. 4
- Missions -- India. 4
- Missions, Medical -- China. 4
- Presbyterians. 4
- Prisoners of war -- China. 4
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- Rural missions. 4
- Sex role -- China. 4
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- Christian education of adults. 3
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- 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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- Education. 3
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- China Inland Mission. 17
- Zhongguo guo min dang. 14
- OMF International. 10
- Shuster, Robert D. 10
- Wheaton College (Ill.) 10
- Moody Bible Institute. 8
- 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
- Anderson, Helen, 1909-2004. 2
- Anderson, Ian Rankin. 2
- Assemblies of God. 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, Billy, 1918-2018. 2
- Graham, Ruth Bell., 1920-2007 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
- National Association of Evangelicals. 2
- Nee, Watchman. 2
- Paddon, Beth Jaderquist. 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, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928. 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
- Allen, Roland, 1869-1947. 1
- American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 1
- American Bible Society. 1
- Asian Theological Seminary. 1
- Bangkok Bible College (1971-) (Bangkok, Thailand) 1
- Barrington College. 1
- Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 1
- Bible Institute of Los Angeles. 1
- Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship. 1
- Bingham, Rowland V., 1872-1942. 1
- Blanchard, J. L. (Julia L.) 1
- Bosshardt, Rudolf Alfred. 1
- Bridgman Memorial School (Shanghai, China) 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
- College Church in Wheaton (Ill.) 1
- Cooke, Allyn B. 1
- Cooke, Leila Robinson. 1
- Coptic Church. 1
- Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 1
- Crossett, Vincent. 1
- Custer, Sadie. 1
- Dallas Theological Seminary. 1
- Dixon, A. C. (Amzi Clarence), 1854-1925. 1
- Door of Hope Mission. 1
- Doremus School (Yokohama, Japan) 1
- Doremus, Sarah D. 1
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
- Duke, Flora Nell. 1
- Ekvall, Robert B. (Robert Brainerd), 1898-1983. 1 ∧ less
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