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Merry E. Long Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 465
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Merry Dalton Long (1925-2010) in which she describes her childhood; education at Wheaton College; marriage; missionary work in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo) and Brazil; the 1960 Congo Rebellion; raising and educating children on the mission field. Other topics discussed include: Long’s medical training as a nurse during WWII; impressions of Africa; medical care available on the mission field; observations about Congolese animism; missionary...
Dates:
Created: 1986
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Miriam J. Dunn Papers
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:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Nancy Folkerts Oral History Interviews
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...
Dates:
Created: 1984
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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
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
Paul P. Stough Papers
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:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Ralph E. Shannon Papers
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...
Dates:
Created: 1986-1990
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Raymond Elliott Oral History Interview
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:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Richard E. Scheel Papers
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:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Robert and Winifred Hockman Papers
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.
Dates:
Created: 1933-1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Rodrigo Chavarria Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 423
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Rodrigo Chavarria (1956-2015) in which he discusses his childhood in Costa Rica, his conversion to Christianity; spiritual development; his theological education in Costa Rica and the United States; relations between Protestants and Catholics in Costa Rica; relations between the church and the state; Pentecostalism in Costa Rica; liberation theology; and evangelical institutions in Costa Rica. Other topics include a discussion of Escuela des Estudios Pastorales...
Dates:
Created: 1989
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Rosanna Formanek Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 404
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Rosanna Formenak in which she discusses her family background; conversion; education at Nyack College and Columbia University in nursing; experiences as a missionary in Gabon with the Christian and Missionary Alliance; youth work, relationship between church and state in Gabon; medical work; and the strengths and weaknesses of the church in Gabon. Other topics discussed include the influence of Word of Life and Youth for Christ on Formenak’s spiritual growth,...
Dates:
Created: 1988
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Ruby B. Maynard Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 530
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Ruby Beatrice (Arnold) Maynard (1912-1998), medical missionary in Tanzania from 1938-1984 with Africa Inland Mission. Topics discussed include Maynard's childhood; conversion; education at Moody Bible Institute; managing the hospital and leprosarium in Tanzania; the development of the African Inland Church in Tanzania; Dr. Nina Maynard's work at the Kolo Ndoto hospital; Ruby Maynard's marriage to station supervisor, William Maynard; challenges of missionary life;...
Dates:
Created: 1996
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Ruth M. Long Oral History Interview
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,...
Dates:
Created: 1986
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Ruth M. Thomas Oral History Interview
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 with 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...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
SEND International Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 406
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, minutes, promotional materials, prayer letters, incorporation documents, news releases, statistics, newsletters, clippings, photographic prints and negatives, films, organizational charts, financial record, etc., related to the origins, development, and operation of SEND International in Alaska, Japan, Philippines, Taiwan, and U.S. based operations. Documentation begins with the pre-incorporation of the organization and its first iteration as the GI GOSPEL HOUR phase...
Dates:
Created: 1943-1989
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Sheri R. Simon Oral History Interview
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...
Dates:
Created: 1986
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Tsegaab Tadesse Tantu Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 711
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Tsegaab Tadesse Tantu in which he discusses his family background in Ethiopia; his father’s ministry as an evangelist and church planter; his own education at Jimma and Addis Ababa University; activities as a government health worker; the scourges of trachoma, malaria and HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia; his work with World Vision in children’s health; campaign against violence to children and women; his impressions of Christianity in the United States and of the Wheaton...
Dates:
2019
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Vera E. Thiessen Papers
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:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Voice of Calvary Ministries Records
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...
Dates:
Created: 1969-1986
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
W. Robert and Frances Holmes Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 405
Scope and Contents
Collection of letters written primarily by Robert Holmes and his wife, Frances (Frannie) to their families in the United States, while they served as missionaries with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Sri Lanka from 1947 to 1960. A few of the letters are from the children, Bobby and Carol Lou, to their grandparents, and there are a few letters sent to the Holmes family. (The originals were retained by the donor.) The letters date from 1947 to 1960, and were mostly...
Dates:
Created: 1947-1960
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
William M. Miller Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 387
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and transcripts with William M. Miller in which he describes his education at Princeton, Christian faith, and work as a Presbyterian missionary to Iran from 1919 to 1962. Besides descriptions of his evangelistic, pastoral, and educational work, he also describes many aspects of Iranian and Islamic society. Most of the transcripts are of interviews done for the Presbyterian Historical Society.
Dates:
Created: 1979-1988
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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- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 48
- Women missionaries. 39
- Women -- Religious life. 37
- Language in missionary work. 32
- Conversion -- Christianity. 30
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni -- Oral history. 30
- Missionaries -- Training of. 28
- Christianity and culture. 26
- Missions -- Educational work. 25
- Missions -- China. 24
- Children of missionaries. 23
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 23
- Medical care -- China. 22
- Evangelistic work -- China. 21
- Communism -- China. 19
- Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 19
- Missions, Medical. 19
- World War, 1939-1945. 17
- Christian life. 16
- Families. 16
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 15
- Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 14
- Missionaries, Resignation of. 14
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945. 14
- China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 13
- Missions -- Finance. 13
- Religious institutions. 13
- Christian leadership. 12
- Rural missions. 12
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- 1950s 12
- Culture shock. 11
- Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 11
- Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 11
- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 11
- Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 10
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 10
- Social change. 10
- Church and state -- China. 9
- College students in missionary work. 9
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 9
- Indigenous church administration -- China. 9
- Medical care -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 9
- Missionaries -- Salaries, etc. 9
- Missionaries' spouses. 9
- Missions -- India. 9
- Missions, Medical -- China. 9
- Presbyterians. 9
- China -- History -- 1912-1937. 8
- Church development, New. 8
- Evangelicalism. 8
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 8
- Persecution -- China. 8
- Public worship -- Christianity. 8
- Worship. 8
- China -- Religion. 7
- Chinese -- Missions. 7
- Fund raising. 7
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa. 7
- Medical care -- India. 7
- Missions -- Ethiopia. 7
- Radio in missionary work. 7
- Syncretism (Religion). 7
- Baptism. 6
- Belgium -- Colonies -- Africa. 6
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 6
- Bible -- Translating. 6
- Buddhists -- China. 6
- Children of missionaries -- Education. 6
- China -- Description and travel. 6
- China -- History -- 1949- 6
- Christian martyrs -- China. 6
- Church and social problems. 6
- Church work with women -- China. 6
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 6
- Evangelistic work -- Ethiopia. 6
- Fundamentalism. 6
- Interpersonal conflict. 6
- Mass media in missionary work. 6
- Medical care -- Ethiopia. 6
- Missionaries -- United States. 6
- Missions -- Japan. 6
- Missions -- Nigeria. 6
- Organizational change. 6
- Race relations. 6
- Refugees -- China. 6
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 6
- Christian education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 5
- Church and state -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 5
- Church work with women. 5
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 5
- Education -- China. 5
- Ethiopia -- Religion. 5
- Evangelistic work -- India. 5
- Hospitals -- China. 5
- Indigenous church administration -- Kenya. 5
- Indigenous church administration -- Nigeria. 5
- Intercultural communication. 5
- Marriage. 5
- Medical care -- Nigeria. 5
- Missions -- Study and teaching. 5 ∧ less
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) 36
- Shuster, Robert D. 19
- China Inland Mission. 12
- Ericksen, Paul. 12
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 11
- Zhongguo guo min dang. 11
- Africa Inland Mission. 10
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 9
- OMF International. 9
- Sudan Interior Mission. 8
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 7
- Moody Bible Institute. 7
- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 6
- Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 6
- Christian Medical Society. 5
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 5
- Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956. 5
- Africa Inland Church. 4
- Borden Memorial Hospital (Lanchow, China) 4
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 4
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 4
- United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. 4
- World Council of Churches. 4
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 4
- Adolph, Harold Paul. 3
- American Bible Society. 3
- Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 3
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 3
- Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 3
- Crossett, Margaret E. 3
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 3
- Glover, Robert Hall, 1871-1947. 3
- Graham, Ruth Bell., 1920-2007 3
- Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975. 3
- Hoste, Dixon Edward, 1861-1946. 3
- Houghton, Frank, 1894-1972. 3
- Howard, David M. 3
- Latham, Lance B. 3
- Latin America Mission. 3
- MAP International (Organization) 3
- Paul, S. Austin. 3
- Rader, Paul, 1879-1938. 3
- Rethy Academy (Congo) 3
- Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 3
- Tenney, Merrill C. (Merrill Chapin), 1904-1985. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.). Billy Graham Scholarship Program. 3
- Woman’s Union Missionary Society of America for Heathen Lands. 3
- World Vision International. 3
- Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 2
- Africa Evangelical Fellowship. 2
- American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 2
- American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. 2
- Asian Theological Seminary. 2
- Assemblies of God. 2
- Blakeslee, Virginia Helen. 2
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 2
- Buffington, Mary Ann. 2
- Chicago Gospel Tabernacle (Ill.) 2
- China Inter-Varsity Evangelical Christian Students Fellowship. 2
- Columbia Bible College (Columbia, S.C.) 2
- Coptic Church. 2
- Crossett, Vincent. 2
- Doremus, Sarah Platt, 1803-1877. 2
- Dow, Elsie Storrs. 2
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 2
- Elliott, Eleanor Edwards. 2
- Elliott, Helen Belcher. 2
- Elliott, Raymond Leroy. 2
- Elliott, Ruth, 1908- 2
- Elliott, Walter Scott. 2
- Evangelical Fellowship of Thailand. 2
- Faith Academy (Quezon City, Philippines) 2
- Feng, Yuxiang, 1882-1948. 2
- Frame, Raymond. 2
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948. 2
- Glasser, Arthur F. (Arthur Frederick), 1914- 2
- Gospel Recordings, Inc. 2
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 2
- Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 2
- Hockman, Robert William, 1906-1935. 2
- Hunter, George W., 1861-1946. 2
- Hurlburt, Charles E. 2
- Hursh, Douglas, 1911- 2
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 2
- Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association of North America. 2
- Jones, Clarence W. 2
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. 2
- Kuhn, Isobel. 2
- Larson, Reuben. 2
- LeBar, Lois E. (Lois Emogene), 1907-1997. 2
- LeBar, Mary E. (Mary Evelyn), 1910- 2
- Leedy, John W. 2
- Local Church. 2
- Long, Burt E. 2
- Lundgren, Ruby. 2
- Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976. 2
- Margaret Williamson Hospital (Shanghai, China) 2
- Marini, Pierre. 2
- Marston, Sarah Hall. 2
- Mau Mau. 2 ∧ less
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