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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

Nathan Walton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Small CN 084
Scope and Contents

This collection contains two letters and several items related to the drowning of missionary George E. King in 1927. The letters describe Nathan and Lois Walton's travel as missionaries with China Inland Mission, and a Bible conference for Chinese Christians.  Also includes CIM newsletter and report which describe the treacherous raft trip made by 38 missionaries and their families who were withdrawing from the Kansu Province during which King drowned.

Dates: Created: 1927-1940

OMS International, Inc., Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 056
Scope and Contents News releases, prayer letters, reports and field studies. The documents all related to the work of OMS which had workers in Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America in the areas of radio broadcasting and Bible distribution. Key OMS figures featured include founder Charles Cowman, his wife, Lettie Burd Cowman, Wesley Duewel, and E.A. Kilbourne.[NOTE: In the Scope and Content Section, the notation "folder 5-2" means "box 5, folder 2."]The collection consists of annual...
Dates: Created: 1963 - 1978

Otto F. Schoerner Papers

 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

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

Paul A. Contento Oral History Interview

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Identifier: CN 472
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Paul A. Contento in which he discusses his childhood, conversion, attendance at Moody Bible Institute, going to China in 1928 as a China Inland Mission worker, evangelistic work in Ningxia province (Inner Mongolia) and work among university students in southwest and northwest China, founding of the Inter-Varsity student movements in China, Singapore and Vietnam; Calvin Chao; the Sino-Japanese war; the communist takeover in China; founding of Singapore Bible...
Dates: Created: 19992

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

Paul H. Bartel Oral History Interview

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Identifier: CN 453
Scope and Contents One oral history interview with Paul Henry Bartel (1904-2001) in which he describes his parents' work in China with orphans, his own childhood in that growing up in China, his conversion to Christianity and anecdotes from his long career as a missionary. Other topics discussed include: The Boxer Uprising and its aftermath; education, including high school at a Holiness Mission school; returning to the United States for college and experiencing culture shock; missionary training institute;...
Dates: Created: 1991

Paul Rader Collection

 Collection
Identifier: CN 038
Scope and Contents Newsletters, sermon manuscripts, scrapbooks, programs, pamphlets, photographs, negatives, brochures, a taped sermon, slides, thesis materials, and more, documenting Paul Rader's life and ministry. The material deals mainly with his radio work and the organizations he founded, including the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle. Additional material includes items about Rader gathered for a planned biography, sermons of other preachers who spoke at the Tabernacle, newsletters and magazines published by...
Dates: Created: 1899-1996

Ralph and Helen Scoville Prayer Letters

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Identifier: Small CN 078
Scope and Contents

This collection contains three prayer letters describing Ralph and Helen Scovilles' missionary work in China; travel from Shanghai to Ningsha, Kansu Province (now Yinchuan, Gansu) and raid and 23-day occupation of Ningsha by Muslim bandits.

Dates: Created: 1928-1929

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

Reuben Archer Torrey, Jr. Papers

 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

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 B. Ekvall Collection

 Collection
Identifier: CN 092
Scope and Contents

Oral history interviews, correspondence, photographs, and a manuscript that describe Robert B. Ekvall's education at Wheaton College, work as a missionary in China and Tibet, and military and diplomatic activities during World War II and after in China and Southeast Asia.

Dates: Created: 1933-1980

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

 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

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

Ruth Paxson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: CN 653
Scope and Contents Correspondence, prayer letters, photograph and pamphlets related to Ruth Paxson’s work as a missionary in China, Europe and the United States and career as an author of pamphlets and books on the Christian life.[Note: In the Scope & Content section, the notation "folder 2-5" means "Box 2, Folder 5"]Series: PhotographsThe following items are located in the ...
Dates: Created: 1908-1958

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

Ruth W. Adeney Oral History Interview

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Identifier: CN 394
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Ruth Winifred Temple Adeney (1912-1911) in which she describes her youth; spiritual growth; education at Northwestern Schools; call to missionary work with China Inland Mission; her missionary experience; her husband, David Adeney; her work with with China Inland Mission in rural areas of Henan Province (1934-1941); and her husband's work with university students in Nanking (1946-1948) and Shanghai (1949- 1950). Other topics discussed include the impact of war...
Dates: Created: 1988

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

Sarah A. Young Papers

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Identifier: CN 542
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, diary, and articles related to the ministry of Sarah Alice, missionary with China Inland Mission. The materials in the collection document her preparation and her evangelism activities in Shanxi Province, China, where she worked from 1896 until 1900, when she and her husband John were killed during the Boxer Rebellion. Young's papers contain many descriptions of missionary work, the lives and testimonies of individual Christians and Chinese society and culture.

Dates: Created: 1894-1901

Stam Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: CN 449
Scope and Contents

Memoirs, newsletters, correspondence, diary, photos, film, poems, newspaper clippings and other items that relate to the Stam family, their Christian faith, Star of Hope Mission and the missions and evangelism work of various family members, especially John and Betty Stam who were killed in China by Chinese Communist soldiers in 1934.

Dates: Created: 1919-2003

Susan Bartel Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 057
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews, negatives, and photographs relating to Susan Bartel's service with the China Mennonite Mission Society for over 20 years in the Shantung Province of China. Topics covered by the interviews include: Bartel's youth, conversion to Christianity, education, marriage to Loyal Bartel, and mission work in China; World War II; Japanese occupation of China; arrest and imprisonment of Loyal; life under the Chinese communists after World War II, Loyal’s imprisonment and Susan’s...
Dates: Created: 1932-1979

Theodore Fischbacher Collection

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Identifier: Small CN 091
Scope and Contents

This collection contains an annotated article (written by Phyllis Thompson) about the North-West Bible Institute (NWBI) in Fengzian, Shensi Province, describing the development of the Back to Jerusalem Evangelistic Band, which evangelized in western China, including among Muslims. Also includes photocopies from Theodore Fischbacher's scrapbook with photographs of NWBI (1941-1947) and the Fischbacher family (1942-1944).

Dates: Created: 1941-1947

Victor G. Plymire Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 341
Scope and Contents Letters, articles, over 1200 photos, maps, diary and other material relating to Victor Plymire's missionary career in Tibet and China under the auspices of the Assemblies of God. The collection contains information not only on his evangelistic work among various strata of Tibetan society but also about his evangelistic/exploration expedition of 1927-28 which crossed from northeastern to southwestern Tibet; Tibetan culture and society; the Buddhist religion; and the early history of relations...
Dates: Created: 1908-1957

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

W. Arthur Saunders Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 471
Scope and Contents Oral history interview and a manuscript translated by W. Arthur Saunders, relating to Saunder’s missionary service in China with China Inland Mission and Overseas Missionary Fellowship from 1930 to 1987. The interview describes his childhood in England, emigration to New Zealand, training at the New Zealand Bible Institute, joining the China Inland Mission, going to China in 1930, evangelistic work in south Gansu province, the work of Chinese evangelists, worship services in Gansu churches,...
Dates: Created: 1992

Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Records

 Collection
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

William H. Nowack Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 632
Scope and Contents

Prayer letters, publications, sermons notes of Nowack documenting William H. Nowack’s work as an independent Christian missionary in the United States (Tennessee) and China (Honan) over a period of four decades.

Dates: Created: 1903-1980

Winifred Rand Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 606
Scope and Contents Oral history interview, articles, questionnaires, and biographical information related to the missionary service of Winifred Rand with China Inland Mission. Topics covered by the material include: Rand’s teaching ambitions as a young girl; reason for move to missions; Portland Bible Institute; Christian and Missionary Alliance missions policy toward single women on the mission field; China Inland Mission training; Chinese language school; doing rural work with Chinese Bible woman in Shansi,...
Dates: Created: 1936-2004

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 81
Special Collections 1
 
Subject
Evangelistic work -- China. 77
Missions -- China. 73
Communism -- China. 42
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 42
Women missionaries. 41
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China -- History -- 1937-1945. 35
Women -- Religious life. 35
Conversion -- Christianity. 31
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945. 30
Language in missionary work. 28
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 27
World War, 1939-1945. 26
Missionaries -- Training of. 25
China -- Religion. 23
Church and state -- China. 20
Missions -- Educational work. 20
Children of missionaries. 19
Medical care -- China. 19
Persecution -- China. 19
China -- History -- 1949- 18
Evangelistic work -- United States. 18
Indigenous church administration -- China. 18
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 18
China -- Description and travel. 16
China -- History -- 1912-1937. 16
Christian life. 15
Christianity and culture. 15
Christian education -- China. 14
Chinese -- Missions. 13
Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 12
Missions, Medical. 12
Rural churches -- China. 12
Buddhists -- China. 11
China -- History. 11
China -- Politics and government. 11
Christian leadership. 11
Culture shock. 11
Families. 11
Fundamentalism. 11
Missionaries' spouses. 11
Missions -- Study and teaching. 11
Religious institutions. 11
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni -- Oral history. 11
Church work with women -- China. 10
Missions, Medical -- China. 10
Refugees -- China. 10
Bible -- Translating. 9
Boarding schools -- China. 9
Children of missionaries -- China. 9
China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901. 9
Missionaries, Resignation of. 9
Rural missions -- China. 9
Three-self movement -- China. 9
Bible -- Study and teaching. 8
Christian martyrs -- China. 8
Church and social problems. 8
Evangelistic sermons. 8
Evangelistic work -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. 8
Missionaries -- United States. 8
Missions -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. 8
Missions -- Japan. 8
Missions -- Taiwan. 8
Missions to Buddhists -- China. 8
Prayer. 8
Presbyterians. 8
Rural missions. 8
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 8
Bible colleges -- China. 7
China -- Church history -- 20th century. 7
Chinese language. 7
Evangelistic work -- Korea. 7
Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 7
Missions -- Biblical teaching. 7
Missions -- India. 7
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 7
Bible colleges. 6
China -- Social life and customs. 6
Christianity and culture -- China. 6
Education -- China. 6
Evangelistic work -- Japan. 6
Hospitals -- China. 6
Missions -- Finance. 6
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 6
Missions -- Philippines. 6
Muslims -- China. 6
Presbyterian Church -- Missions. 6
Shanghai (China) 6
Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 6
World War, 1914-1918. 6
Worship. 6
Belief and doubt. 5
Catholic Church -- China. 5
Christian education -- United States. 5
Christian literature -- Publishing -- China. 5
Church and social problems -- China. 5
Church development, New. 5
Church growth -- China. 5
Church work with children -- China. 5
Evangelicalism -- United States. 5
Evangelistic work -- Australia. 5
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Language
English 81
Chinese 2
Arabic 1
German 1
Spanish; Castilian 1
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Thai 1
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Names
China Inland Mission. 41
Zhongguo guo min dang. 26
OMF International. 24
Shuster, Robert D. 20
Wheaton College (Ill.) 20
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Moody Bible Institute. 17
Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 13
Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 13
Ericksen, Paul. 10
Christian and Missionary Alliance. 9
Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 8
Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 7
Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 6
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 6
Glover, Robert Hall, 1871-1947. 6
Houghton, Frank, 1894-1972. 6
Taylor, James Hudson, 1832-1905. 6
Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 5
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 5
Feng, Yuxiang, 1882-1948. 5
Kane, J. Herbert. 5
Kuhn, Isobel. 5
Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 5
Schoerner, Otto Frederick. 5
Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928. 5
Borden Memorial Hospital (Lanchow, China) 4
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 4
Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 4
Frame, Helen. 4
Frame, Raymond. 4
Graham, Ruth Bell. 4
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 4
Nee, Watchman. 4
Rader, Paul, 1879-1938. 4
Woods, C. Stacey, 1909-1983. 4
Anderson, Helen, 1909-2004. 3
Anderson, Ian Rankin. 3
Assemblies of God. 3
Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 3
Bible Institute of Los Angeles. 3
Bible Institute of the Philippines (Valenzuela, Philippines) 3
Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 3
China Inter-Varsity Evangelical Christian Students Fellowship. 3
Christian Medical Society. 3
Dow, Elsie Storrs. 3
Evangelical Alliance Mission. 3
Glasser, Arthur F. (Arthur Frederick), 1914- 3
Hess, Esther N. 3
Hoste, Dixon Edward, 1861-1946. 3
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) 3
Jones, Bob, 1883-1968. 3
Kane, Winnifred Mary Shepherd, 1912- 3
Kuhn, John Becker. 3
McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 3
National Association of Evangelicals. 3
Nowack, Ruth Louise. 3
Ockenga, Harold John, 1905-1985. 3
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 3
Salvation Army. 3
Stott, John R. W. 3
Straw, Darien A. 3
Wang, Leland. 3
Adeney, Ruth W. 2
Allison, Lon (Lon J.), 1952-2019. 2
Armerding, Hudson T. 2
Barrows, Cliff. 2
Bartel, Loyal. 2
Borden, William, 1887-1913. 2
Bosshardt, Rudolf Alfred. 2
Bright, Bill. 2
Carlson, Robert Dean. 2
Chao, Calvin. 2
Chicago Evangelistic Institute. 2
Contento, Paul A. 2
Cooke, Allyn B. 2
Crossett, Margaret E. 2
Dallas Theological Seminary. 2
Doremus, Sarah Platt, 1803-1877. 2
Ekvall, Robert B. (Robert Brainerd), 1898-1983. 2
Embery, William James. 2
Far East Broadcasting Company. 2
Fellowship of Evangelical Students (Singapore) 2
Finney, Charles G., 1792-1875. 2
Ford, Leighton. 2
Fraser, James Outram, 1886-1938. 2
Frost, Henry Weston, 1858- 2
Fuller Theological Seminary. 2
Fuller, Charles Edward, 1887-1968. 2
Gibb, George W. 2
Goforth, Jonathan, 1859-1936. 2
Goforth, Rosalind, 1864-1942. 2
Gray, James M. 2
Hansen, Kenneth Norman. 2
Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 2
Hess, Lawrence. 2
Hockman, Robert William, 1906-1935. 2
Hunter, George W., 1861-1946. 2
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. 2
LaSalle Street Church (Chicago, Ill.) 2
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 2
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