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C. Everett Koop Papers
Collection — Container: Books
Identifier: SC-058
Scope and Contents
The C. Everett Koop papers are organized into five series: Biographical, Correspondence, Manuscript Material (sub-series: Books and Lectures/Speeches), Published Material (Pamphlets), Media Material (Audio tapes) and Secondary. The bulk of the collection is found in the Book Manuscripts. The manuscripts include typescripts and galleys for four of Koop's books: Let's Talk, The Right to Live; The Right to Die, Sometimes Mountains Move and Koop. The remaining series contain a few folders or...
Dates:
Created: 1968-1999; Other: Majority of material found in 1968-1981; Other: Date acquired: 1993
Found in:
Buswell Library Special Collections
Collection 044 Papers of Helen M. Tenney
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:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 052 Oral History Interview with Esther Salzman
Collection
Identifier: CN-052
Scope and Contents
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:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 055 Papers of Otto F. Schoerner
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.
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Created: 1949-2006
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 075 Oral History Interviews with Elizabeth Warner
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:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 080 Papers of Miriam J. Dunn
Collection
Identifier: CN 080
Scope and Contents
Collection contians a manuscript of I Get Your Message, Father, written by Miriam J. Dunn relating her missionary experiences in China and Southeast Asia with China Inland Mission (CIM) (319 pp.) Topics include her childhood in China, nurses training in England, language school in China, marriage, work with Christian Witness Press in Hong Kong, and missionary work in Malaysia. The manuscript is typed on 319 pages, 8" x 11" size bond paper and...
Dates:
Created: 1978
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 083 Papers of Richard E. Scheel
Collection
Identifier: CN 083
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, slides, photographs, correspondence and a personal diary created by Dr. Richard E. Scheel, missionary to Ethiopia with Sudan Interior Mission (S.I.M.) from 1951-1971.
Dates:
Created: 1953-1970
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 084 Papers of Vera E. Thiessen
Collection
Identifier: CN 084
Scope and Contents
Correspondence describing Vera Thiessen's experiences and work as a medical missionary for the Africa Inland Mission (AIM) in the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) to her family, which included her parents, Rev. and Mrs. J. D. Thiessen, her sisters Carol and Lois, and her brother Jack. A few letters were written to friends as general prayer letters. The time period covered by the letters is 1946 to 1976. Topics discussed include her experiences as a missionary with Africa Inland Mission, Africa...
Dates:
Created: 1946-1976
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 088 Papers of Paul and Catharine Gieser
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:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 089 Papers of Paul P. Stough
Collection
Identifier: CN 089
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, films, videos relating to Paul P. Stough’s missionary service in the Belgian Congo with Africa Inland Mission. Materials contain information on Stough's father, Henry Stough, Wheaton College, Paul Stough's work as a missionary for Africa Inland Mission in the Belgian Congo (Zaire) and Kenya from the 1920s to the 1970s, and generally on the spread of Christianity in Africa.
Dates:
Created: 1979-1992
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 093 Oral History Interview with Earl A. Winsor
Collection
Identifier: CN 093
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Earl Austin Winsor (1897-1983) in which he discusses his education at Wheaton College as a student (1919-1920) and teacher (1920-25, history, and 1939-1949, math and physics) and his missionary experiences in Africa under Africa Inland Mission, serving in what is now Zaire. Wheaton personalities, mission experiences, especially those relating to his education work, and analysis of his exposure to African government, churches, tribal customs, and health practices....
Dates:
Created: 1979-1980
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 110 Ephemera of Donald E. McDowell
Collection
Identifier: CN 110
Scope and Contents
Collection of 643 slides which document Donald E. McDowell's mission work and activity in Paraguay. Scenic views, native flora, mission personnel, mission facilities, national churchmen and pastors are some of the subjects illustrated by the collection.When the collection was received by the Archives, the slides were arranged in sets and were accompanied by an attached description and date for each picture. The original order of the slides was maintained. Three unidentified...
Dates:
Created: 1951-1973
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 115 Oral History Interview with Raymond Elliott
Collection
Identifier: CN 115
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Raymond Leroy Elliott (1924-2008), Wycliffe Bible translator working among the Ixil Indian tribe in Guatemala. Interview topics include educational work and life in Wheaton, translation activities, missionary training, mission responsibilities, and political, social, and cultural events in Central America. The time period covered by the interviews is roughly 1924-1980.Raymond Elliott was interviewed by Chris Matthews, a Wheaton College graduate...
Dates:
Created: 1980
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 116 Oral History Interviews with Helen Elliott
Collection
Identifier: CN 116
Scope and Contents
Oral History interviews conducted with Helen Ruth Belcher Elliot (1927-2012), missionary with Wycliffe Bible Translators to the Ixil Indian tribe in Guatemala. Topics include Wheaton College during the 1940s, field experiences, Guatemalan culture and religion, and family activities. Topics covered in the interview include: Elliott's childhood, marriage and early family life, education at Wheaton College (including courses, academic and social life), decision to become a missionary with...
Dates:
Created: 1980
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 124 Papers of Helen Renich
Collection
Identifier: CN 124
Scope and Contents
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:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 169 Oral History Interviews with Harold P. Adolph
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:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 173 Papers of Judson Smith
Collection
Identifier: CN 173
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings relating to the ministry of Judson Smith. Letters between Smith and his family describe his trips abroad, among them to Great Britain and Paris in 1882 (which included visits to hear Charles Spurgeon), Turkey and the World Missionary Conference (1888), and Japan and China (1898); reports to ABCFM board members also describe Smith's observations of missionary work; included among Smith's descriptions of China are those of other missions including...
Dates:
Created: 1878-1913
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 186 Papers of M. Douglas Hursh
Collection
Identifier: CN 186
Scope and Contents
Two oral history interviews, manuscript material, photographs, and memorabilia relatingn to Marion Douglas Hursh's work with Sudan Interior Mission's Kano Eye Hospital, Kano in Nigeria from 1942-1962. Topics covered concern Hursh's education and work as a medical missionary at the Sudan Interior Mission's Kano Eye Hospital in Kano, Nigeria, as well as various aspects of church life and mission activity in Nigeria. Events described in the interviews cover the time period from 1904 to...
Dates:
Created: 1904-1982
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 187 Papers of Eleanor R. Elliott
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:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 200 Papers of Robert and Winifred Hockman
Collection
Identifier: CN 200
Scope and Contents
Collection documenting the medical missionary service of Robert and Winnifred Hockman with the United Presbyterian Church in Ethiopia, including correspondence written by Hockmans to Robert Hockman’s parents, photographs, a scrapbook about the life and death of Robert Hockman, and oral history interviews with Winifred Hockman. The collection contains extensive material on the Italo-Ethiopian War and the work of the International Red Cross.
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Created: 1933-1982
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 206 Oral History Interview with John C. Chin
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:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 215 Records of Overseas Missionary Fellowship (China Inland Mission)
Collection
Identifier: CN-215
Scope and Contents
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;...
Dates:
Created: 1853, 1886-1990, 1997, n.d.; Other: Majority of material found in 1889-1990
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 219 Oral History Interview with Bertil A. Ogren
Collection
Identifier: CN 219
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Bertil A. Ogren (1914-2006) in which he describes his recruitment as a lay missionary in the Belgian Congo with the Covenant Church from 1948-56; his work there beginning and running the LECO Press, which served the needs of members of the Congo Protestant Council and relations between Africans and Western missionaries. Other topics discussed include: his family and early life, impressions of George Caprenter, independence of the Congo, Belgian influence on the...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 228 Oral History Interview with Lyndon Hess
Collection
Identifier: CN 228
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Lyndon Roth Hess in which he describes his missionary service in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) between 1932 and 1975 as a teacher of missionary children, assistant to village pastors and other work with the Lunda people. Topics include cultural influences on missionary children, education at Wheaton College, missionary service with Brethren Assemblies in Zambia teaching children of missionaries, the national African church, tribal tensions, Marxism, influence of...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 232 Papers of Esther Hess
Collection
Identifier: CN 232-232
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:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 236 Records of Latin America Mission
Collection
Identifier: CN-236
Scope and Contents
Records of the mission, including correspondence, minutes, reports, memos, financial reports, policy statements, planning documents, promotional material, photographs, etc.Documents describe the origins of LAM (particularly the contribution of the Strachan family); evangelistic, church planting, educational, medical, and literature activities (primarily in Colombia and Costa Rica, but also many other Latin American countries and the United States); the restructuring of the...
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Created: 1903-1994
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 246 Papers of Jessie McDonald
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...
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Created: 1907-1951
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 258 Oral History Interview with Bradford E. Steiner
Collection
Identifier: CN 258
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Bradford Ezra Steiner (1917-1987), in which he discusses his medical work at Landour Hospital in Landour, Mussoorie, India; diseases; folk medicine; evangelistic outreach to patients in the hospital; conflicts between Christians, Hindus, and Muslims; and carrying medical care into the surrounding villages. The time period covered by the interview is roughly 1947 to 1958.Bradford Ezra Steiner was interviewed by Ted Reihmer at Steiner's home in Elmhurst,...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 260 Oral History Interviews with Jeannette Thiessen
Collection
Identifier: CN 260
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Jeannette Louise Martig Thiessen (1927-2014) in which she discusses her family life in Illinois, favorite professors and her education at Wheaton College, nurses' training, and years in India (1952-1974) working with her husband under the sponsorship of the Mennonite Mission to the Lepers and American Leprosy Mission. Other topics discussed include: the Indian caste system, Indian politics, economics, literacy, hospital work with lepers, the Indian church,...
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Created: 1983
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 263 Oral History Interview with Margaret Carlson
Collection
Identifier: CN 263
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Margaret Johanna (Larson) Carlson in which she describes growing up in Ecuador as the child of missionaries, her education at Westmont and Wheaton Colleges, her nursing experience, and her missionary service with her husband at the Christian and Missionary Alliance Seminary in Hong Kong. Other topics discussed include: the founding of a HCJB radio station by her father, Reuben Larson, and her involvement in Wheaton College's HNGR Program. Individuals described...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 282 Oral History Interview with Bonnie Jo Adolph
Collection
Identifier: CN 282
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Bonnie Jo Adelsman Adolph in which she discussses her missionary service in Ethiopia with Sudan Interior Mission from 1966-1974. Topics discussed include Adolph's education at Wheaton College, decision to become a missionary, living in Taiwan during her husband's military service, reasons for choosing Sudan Interior Mission, her husband's medical work in Ethiopia, observations about Sudanese culture, the church in Sudan, and the Adolphs short term mission service...
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Created: 1984
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 283 Oral History Interviews with Nancy Folkerts
Collection
Identifier: CN 283
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Nancy Wood Folkerts. Topics discussed include her childhood as a pastor's daughter; study at Wheaton College; her marriage; training in London; work as a missionary in British Cameroon (now Republic of Cameroon), especially Bible study and literacy programs for women and 3H clubs for girls; the political and social situation in Cameroon; Cameroon independence; medical problems in Cameroon; the work of her husband, Fred, at the Baptist Teacher Training College and...
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Created: 1984
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 284 Oral History Interview with Gladys Wright
Collection
Identifier: CN 284
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Gladys Lyle Wright (1902-1994), in which she discusses her work as a teacher in Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo). Topics discussed include: Wright's family background, education at Wheaton College and Moody Bible Institute, her work as a missionary in the Belgian Congo for the Africa Inland Mission, memories of the Congolese people and culture, and her experiences at Wheaton when she was on the staff of the College after retriring from the mission...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 286 Oral History Interview with Marilyn J. Suttie
Collection
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...
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Created: 1984
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 287 Oral History Interview with Margaret Crossett
Collection
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...
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Created: 1984-1986
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 289 Oral History Interview with G. Paul Groen
Collection
Identifier: CN 289
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Paul Groen in which he describes his education at Wheaton College, missionary work the Christian Reformed Church in Nigeria and the Nigerian church, particularly among the Tiv people, and the country's economy, educational system and political history between 1964 and 1973. Other topics discussed include: Tiv customs and religion, the church among the Tiv and its indigenous leadership and transition of leadership from missionaries, relations with Roman Catholics...
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Created: 1984
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 290 Oral History Interview with Merle A. Steely
Collection
Identifier: CN 290
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Merle Ashel Steely, who worked as a missionary with Sudan Interior Mission between 1951 and 1977 in Liberia and Nigeria. Topic discussed include: Steely's conversion while in military service, education and employment at Wheaton College (including the 1950 revival there), his missionary work in Liberia at radio station ELWA and with Sudan Interior Mission in Nigeria, teaching in mission and government schools, evangelism and church planting, Billy Graham's 1960...
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Created: 1984
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 298 Papers of Howard E. Thomas
Collection
Identifier: CN 298
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Howard E. Thomas in which he describes his family background, Christian life and growth, education at Stony Brook School and Wheaton College, missionary work with the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions among lepers of the Tai-Lu people along the Burmese border in southwestern China, internment by the Japanese in Thailand, contextualization of the gospel, expulsion from the area by the Chinese army involved in opium trade. Description of Stony Brook School...
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Created: 1946-1985
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 299 Oral History Interview with Ruth M. Thomas
Collection
Identifier: CN 299
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Ruth M. Thomas about her family and religious background, conversion, recollections of Billy Sunday's campaign in Scranton, PA in 1914, her education at Wheaton College, call to foreign missions, work as a missionary nurse wiht the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions in a rehabilitation program of a leper colony in southwestern China along the Burmese border among the Tai-Lu people, language study, worship and use of music, an anti-opium campaign, and a...
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Created: 1985
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 311 Papers of Charles J. Guth
Collection
Identifier: CN 311
Scope and Contents
Water color paintings and oral history interviews with Charles J. Guth, relating to Guth’s missionary work in Africa with the Sudan Interior Mission. Topics covered by the interviews include: Guth’s education at Wheaton College, preparation for the mission field as a worker with Sudan Interior Mission, his life, work, and contacts as a missionary among the Koma and Maban people of the Sudan; the culture of these peoples; the effect of Sudan's independence on the church in the Sudan,...
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Created: 1976-1985
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 312 Papers of Diane W. Hawkins
Collection
Identifier: CN 312
Scope and Contents
Collection 312 consists of letters, oral history interviews, articles, minutes of meetings, reports and other relating to Diane Hawkins' missionary service in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) as well as the tapes of an oral history interview conducted several years later. Among the topics covered are: TEAM's evangelistic, and educational work in Rhodesia; the lifestyle, music, and beliefs of Shona people; the civil war between white government and the black nationalist guerrillas which raged while...
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Created: 1970-1985
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 315 Oral History Interview with Marie H. Little
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...
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Created: 1985
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 318 Papers of L. Nelson Bell
Collection
Identifier: CN 318
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Correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, reports, and other documents related to the life and ministry of L. Nelson Bell, first as a medical missionary in China, then as doctor, editor, and lay leader in the Presbyterian Church in the United States. Among the topics covered by the material in the collection are missions in China in the twentieth century between the two world wars; the work of Bell's son-in-law, Billy Graham; the founding and development of Christianity Today and The...
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1923-1973
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 335 Papers of Ralph E. Shannon
Collection
Identifier: CN 335
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and paper records relating to Ralph Shannon’s life and ministry as a medical missionary in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo).Audio Tapes Four oral history interviews with Ralph Shannon, recorded on eight reels of audio tape. Topics covered include Shannon's childhood in Belgian Congo (Zaire) with his missionary parents, Wheaton College undergraduate and graduate education, service in Zaire as a medical...
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Created: 1986-1990
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 347 Oral History Interview with Ruth M. Long
Collection
Identifier: CN 347
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Ruth Margaret (Hollander) Long in which she discusses her conversion, education at Wheaton College, work as a missionary for the Sudan Interior Mission tohgether with her husband Burt) in Niger and Nigeria from 1950 through 1984. Other topics discussed include raising a family on the mission field, development of an AWANA program for Hausa children, evangelistic activities, impressions of the French colonial system, the independence of Niger, Hamami Diori,...
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Created: 1986
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 348 Oral History Interview with Sharon R. Simon
Collection
Identifier: CN 348
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Sharon "Sheri" Rose Simon in which she describes her childhood, conversion to Christianity, decision to become a missionary, internship in Mexico, and medical work in Haiti.Other topics discussed include: joining the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, raising financial support, common health problems, folk remedies, the relationship between the Haitian would view and health care, voodoo, the 1985-86 revolution in Haiti, relations between Catholics and...
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Created: 1986
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 349 Papers of Clarence W. Jones
Collection
Identifier: CN 349
Scope and Contents
Collection includes correspondence, reports, sermons, memos, minutes of meetings, clippings, photographs, videotapes, slides, and other materials relating to the career of mission executive Clarence W. Jones. The materials deal mainly with his work at the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle and the growth and development of the organization he helped found, the World Radio Missionary Fellowship, and especially its primary broadcasting station, HCJB in Ecuador. There is also an extensive amount of...
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Created: 1915-1986
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 351 Oral History Interview with Burt E. Long
Collection
Identifier: CN 351
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Burt E. Long by Wheaton College student Heather Conley in which Long discusses his memories of Paul Rader and the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, his education at Wheaton College, and his decades of services as a medical missionary for Sudan Interior Mission in Niger and Nigeria. The time period covered by the interviews is 1930-1986.
Burt Long was interviewed by Wheaton College student Heather Conley on November 26 and December 3, 1986.
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Created: 1986
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 362 Records of Voice of Calvary Ministries
Collection
Identifier: CN 362
Scope and Contents
Administrative correspondence, memos, reports, photographs and other material, relating to the evangelistic ministry of Voice of Calvary Ministries in a context of holistic community development, economic redistribution, and racial reconciliation, primarily from the mid-1970s to 1986 in Mendenhall and Jackson, Mississippi, and nearby rural communities. The collection especially describes the operation of the organization, the fund raising for and promotion of its work, and the educational...
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Created: 1969-1986
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 369 Oral History Interview with Lue Shelby
Collection
Identifier: CN 369
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Lue Shelby in which she describes her family background; Voice of Calvary Ministries; the health clinic started by VOC; health problems among the the low-income population in Jackson, MS; Bible study for patients and staff at the clinic; programs for educating the community in personal health care; racial conditions in Mississippi; and the VOC Fellowship Church. The time period covered by the interview is 1953-1987.Lue Shelby was interviewed by Paul...
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Created: 1987
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
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- Children of missionaries -- Education. 7
- Children. 7
- Church work with children. 7
- Ethiopia 7
- Evangelistic work -- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 7
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History 7
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 7
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 7
- Fund raising. 7
- International relief 7
- Missions -- Ethiopia. 7
- Nationalism 7 ∧ less
- Names
- Wheaton College (Ill.) 39
- China Inland Mission. 11
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 11
- Africa Inland Mission. 9
- Chung-kuo kuo min tang. 9
- Islam 9
- Overseas Missionary Fellowship. 8
- Sudan Interior Mission. 8
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 7
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 7
- Moody Bible Institute. 7
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 5
- Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956. 5
- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 5
- Stam, John Cornelius, 5
- Borden Memorial Hospital (Lanchow, China) 4
- Christian Medical Society. 4
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa (ECWA). 4
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 4
- United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. 4
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 4
- Adolph, Harold Paul. 3
- Africa Evangelical Fellowship. 3
- Africa Inland Church. 3
- American Bible Society. 3
- Bell, L. Nelson. 3
- Chiang, Kai-shek. 3
- Crossett, Margaret E. 3
- Glover, Robert Hall, 3
- Haile Selassie 3
- Howard, David M. 3
- Latham, Lance Breton, 3
- Leedy, John W. 3
- MAP International (Organization) 3
- Paul, Austin, 3
- Rader, Paul, 1879-1938. 3
- Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 3
- Straw, Darien A. 3
- Tenney, Merrill C. 3
- Woman's Union Missionary Society of America. 3
- World Council of Churches. 3
- World Vision International. 3
- Aldrich, Willard. 2
- American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 2
- American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. 2
- Assemblies of God. 2
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 2
- Brethren Assemblies. 2
- Chicago Gospel Tabernacle (Ill.) 2
- Columbia Bible College (Columbia, S.C.) 2
- Coptic Church. 2
- Coray, Edward A. 2
- Crossett, Vincent. 2
- Doremus, Sarah Platt. 2
- Dow, Elsie Storrs (1859-1944) 2
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 2
- Elliott, Eleanor Edwards. 2
- Elliott, Ruth, 2
- Elliott, Walter Scott. 2
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 2
- Evangelical Fellowship of Thailand. 2
- Faith Academy (Quezon City, Philippines) 2
- Frame, Raymond William. 2
- Gandhi, 2
- Gospel Recordings, Inc. 2
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 2
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 2
- Hall, John F. 2
- Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 2
- Hess, Lyndon. 2
- Hockman, Robert William, 2
- Hoste, Dixon Edward. 2
- Houghton, Frank, 1894-1972. 2
- Hunter, George W., 2
- Hursh, Douglas, 2
- Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association of North America. 2
- Jevovah's Witnesses 2
- Jones, Clarence W. 2
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 2
- Kuhn, Isobel. 2
- Larson, Reuben. 2
- Latin America Mission. 2
- LeBar, Lois E. 2
- Long, Burt E. 2
- Lundgren, Ruby Josephine. 2
- Lutheran Church 2
- Marston, Sarah Hall. 2
- Mixter, Russell Lowell, 2
- North Side Gospel Center (Chicago, Ill.) 2
- Perkins, John, 2
- Perkins, Vera Mae. 2
- Pike, Kenneth L. (Kenneth Lee), 1912-2000. 2
- Rethy Academy (Rethy, Zaire) 2
- Salvation Army. 2
- Schoerner, Otto Frederick. 2
- Summer Institute of Linguistics. 2
- Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 2
- Taylor, James Hudson, 1832-1905 2
- Thomas, Howard E., 2
- Thomas, Ruth Hatcher, 2 ∧ less
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