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Bruce F. Hunt Oral History Interview

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Identifier: CN 104
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews in which Bruce Finley Hunt (1903-1992) discusses his boyhood in Korea, college and seminary education at Wheaton College, Rutgers University and Princeton Seminary; a portion (1928-1942) of his missionary work in Korea and Manchuria; and his impressions of Korean culture. The time period covered by the interviews is roughly 1903-1976.Bruce Finley Hunt was interviewed by Robert Shuster on March 22 and May 21, 1980 and October 16, 2002 in Abington, PA and...
Dates: Created: 1980-1982

Dorothy J. Mainhood Oral History Interviews

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Identifier: CN 392
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Dorothy Jane Mainhood in which she describes her childhood, conversion, spiritual growth, education at Wheaton College, call to be a missionary, and work in Thailand for Overseas Missionary Fellowship. Other topics discussed include Mainhood’s medical training, language study in Thailand, Thai people and culture, regional differences in Thailand, the Buddhist and Muslim communities in Thailand, religious syncretism, church-state relations, characteristics of...
Dates: Created: 1988

Eleanor R. Elliott Papers

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Identifier: CN 187
Scope and Contents Family correspondence, prayer letters, brochures, newspaper clippings, prayer cards and letters from other missionaries, photographs, slides, negatives, journals and diaries, and eight interviews concerning Elliott's childhood in China, mission work with China Inland Mission (now Overseas Missionary Fellowship) in China and the Philippines, her experiences as an evangelist and teacher, her life in China during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945, and the civil war that followed. Her retirement...
Dates: Created: 1910-1988

Elizabeth Evans Oral History Interview

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Identifier: CN 279
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Elizabeth Morrell Evans (1899-1976) in which she discusses her childhood; education at Wheaton College; work with J. Elwin Wright; her Christian education activities; the development of the New England Fellowship, the National Association of Evangelicals, and the World Evangelical Fellowship; and her work as a missionary in Taiwan. The time period covered by the interviews is 1899-1976.Elizabeth Evans was interviewed by Robert Shuster on October 8,...
Dates: Created: 1984-1985

Hester H. Withey Papers

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Identifier: CN 418
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews and a manuscript, documenting the ministry of Hester Hartzell Withey, missionary with Worldwide Evangelisation for Christ International (WEC) in China and India from 1940-1985.Series: Audio TapesOral history interviews (8.6 hours) with Hester Withey in which she describes her parents’ and grandparents’ missionary service in Angola, her childhood in Africa and the U.S., education in South Africa, conversion, medical...
Dates: Created: 1989

Howard E. Thomas Papers

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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...
Dates: Created: 1946-1985

Itchaya Sitterley Oral History Interview

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Identifier: CN 383
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Itchaya Sitterley in which she describes her family, life in Thailand, education, career in television and radio, conversion, the evangelistic use of folk drama, the Thai church and comparisons between it and the American church, and Buddhism. Other topics discussed include Sitterley's work with the Chrisitan Communicatins Institute; her marriage; main denominations and seminaries in Thailand; and education at Wheaton College; competition among churches in...
Dates: Created: 1987

John R. W. Stott Papers

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Identifier: CN 590
Scope and Contents Correspondence, memos, reports, notes, magazine and newspaper clippings, brochures and other materials relating to John R. W. Stott’s involvement in the 1974 Lausanne Congress and the Lausanne movement that developed out of it. The collection is particularly strong in material relating to the membership of Stott on the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization and its executive committee; his contribution to drafting several of the major statements of the movement; his chairmanship of the...
Dates: Created: 1974-2000

Katharine H. Schoerner Papers

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Identifier: CN 051
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Katherine Hastings Dodd Schoerner for the Missionary Sources Collection at the BGC Archives, in which she describes her experiences as a missionary with China Inland Mission from 1931-1951. Also included the collection are five letters written during her ministry in China describing her life there.Katharine Schoerner was interviewed by Wheaton College student Gary Ziccardi on October 20, 1978 at her home in Evergreen Park. Topics covered in the...
Dates: Created: 1978

Lausanne Movement Records

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Identifier: CN 046
Brief Description Correspondence, minutes, memos, reports, manuscripts of speeches, press releases, newsletters, staff manuals, audio and video tapes of sponsored events, photographs of events and personnel, and other administrative materials of the Lausanne Movement, originally called the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. The Committee grew out of the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization. Its basic doctrinal statement was the Lausanne Covenant and it had the mission Ato encourage...
Dates: Created: 1949, 1969-2014

Marie H. Little Oral History Interview

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Identifier: CN 315
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Marie Huttenlock Little (1918-2009) in which she describes her childhood in Philadelphia, training as a nurse and further education at Philadelphia School of Bible and the University of Pennsylvania; missionary service with China Inland Mission in 1947, working in Lanzhou and Wu Wei, Gansu province; return to the U.S. in 1950 to become a staff worker for Inter-Varsity. The time period covered by the interviews is circa 1918-1955.Marie Little was...
Dates: Created: 1985

Mary Goforth Moynan Papers

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Identifier: CN 189
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: Created: 1918-1994

Otto F. Schoerner Papers

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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

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Identifier: CN 215
Brief Description Correspondence, minutes, directories, newsletters, brochures, photographs, book manuscripts, slides, photo albums, and other materials which document the history of the North American branch of the mission. Materials cover the origins of the mission's North American branch; its church planting, evangelistic, medical, educational, and literature work in China until the time of its expulsion in 1951; its reorganization from China Inland Mission into Overseas Missionary Fellowship; its work...
Dates: Created: 1853, 1886-1990, 2001, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1886-2001

Robert B. Ekvall Collection

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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

Silas F. Fox Papers

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Identifier: CN 292
Scope and Contents Diaries, notebooks, correspondence, clippings, magic lantern slides, photographs, home movies, pamphlets, financial statements relating to Fox's career in the Telugu-speaking area of India as an independent missionary. The collection also contains information on indigenous Indian evangelists.Materials, some in the Telegu language, document daily life, including descriptions of his travels.  Home movies contain many scenes of travel, Indian landscape and animals, including scenes...
Dates: Created: 1949-1973

Vincent L. Crossett Oral History Interview

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Identifier: CN 288
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Vincent Leroy Crossett (1907-1999) in which he describes his education at Wheaton and Westminster Seminary, missionary work with China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship in China and Taiwan, and pastoral work in a local church in Hawaii. Topics discussed include Crossett's education at Wheaton College and Westminster Seminary; decision to join China Inland Mission; language school; evangelism methods; characteristics of the Chinese church; CIM's...
Dates: Created: 1984-1986

W. Robert and Frances Holmes Papers

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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

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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Language in missionary work. 12
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 12
Missions -- China. 12
Evangelistic work -- China. 11
Christianity and culture. 9
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Communism -- China. 9
Missionaries -- Training of. 9
Women -- Religious life. 9
Women missionaries. 9
Buddhists -- China. 8
Missions to Buddhists -- China. 8
Children of missionaries. 7
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 7
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 7
Conversion -- Christianity. 7
Indigenous church administration -- China. 7
Medical care -- China. 7
Missions -- Educational work. 7
World War, 1939-1945. 7
Families. 6
Missions -- India. 6
China -- Religion. 5
Chinese -- Missions. 5
Christian education -- China. 5
Missions -- Finance. 5
Missions to Buddhists. 5
Missions, Medical. 5
Modernist-fundamentalist controversy. 5
Religious institutions. 5
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 5
Bible -- Study and teaching. 4
Buddhism -- Doctrines. 4
China -- Description and travel. 4
China -- History -- 1912-1937. 4
China -- History -- 1949- 4
Christian leadership. 4
Church and state -- China. 4
Church development, New. 4
Evangelistic work -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. 4
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 4
Missionaries, Resignation of. 4
Missions -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. 4
Muslims -- China. 4
Persecution -- China. 4
Rural missions. 4
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945. 4
Three-self movement. 4
Bible -- Publication and distribution. 3
Bible colleges -- China. 3
Buddhists -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. 3
Catholic Church -- Missions. 3
China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901. 3
China -- Social life and customs. 3
Christian life. 3
Church and social problems. 3
Church work with women -- China. 3
Evangelicalism. 3
Evangelistic work -- India. 3
Missionaries -- Salaries, etc. 3
Missionaries' spouses. 3
Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 3
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 3
Missions -- Taiwan. 3
Missions to Hindus. 3
Organizational change. 3
Tibetans. 3
Atheism. 2
Baptism. 2
Baptists -- Missions. 2
Bible colleges. 2
Boarding schools -- China. 2
Buddhism -- Relations -- Christianity. 2
Buddhism -- Thailand. 2
Buddhists -- India. 2
Caste -- India. 2
Catholic Church -- China. 2
Catholic Church -- Relations -- Evangelicalism. 2
Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 2
Children of missionaries -- Education. 2
China -- Foreign Relations -- United States. 2
China -- History -- Revolution, 1911-1912. 2
China -- History. 2
China -- Politics and government. 2
Christian education -- Taiwan. 2
Christian literature -- Publishing -- China. 2
Christian literature -- Publishing. 2
Christian martyrs -- China. 2
Church and social problems -- China. 2
Church and state -- India. 2
Church and state. 2
Church growth -- China. 2
Church work with children. 2
Confucianism -- China. 2
Culture shock. 2
Ecumenical movement -- Congresses. 2
Education -- China. 2
Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 2
Evangelistic work -- Taiwan. 2
Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
Fundamentalism. 2
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Wheaton College (Ill.) 10
Shuster, Robert D. 8
Zhongguo guo min dang. 7
China Inland Mission. 5
OMF International. 5
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Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 4
Straw, Darien A. 4
Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 3
Christian and Missionary Alliance. 3
Dain, Arthur John, 1912- 3
Ericksen, Paul. 3
Glover, Robert Hall, 1871-1947. 3
Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 3
Little, Paul E. 3
McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 3
Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 3
Schoerner, Otto Frederick. 3
Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 3
Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 3
World Council of Churches. 3
Bakke, Raymond J., 1938- 2
Borden Memorial Hospital (Lanchow, China) 2
Bright, Vonette Z. 2
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 2
Cassidy, Michael, 1936- 2
Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 2
Crossett, Margaret E. 2
Dayton, Edward R. 2
Dow, Elsie Storrs. 2
Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 2
Emery, Allan C. 2
Feng, Yuxiang, 1882-1948. 2
Ford, Leighton. 2
Glasser, Arthur F. (Arthur Frederick), 1914- 2
Hoste, Dixon Edward, 1861-1946. 2
Houston, Tom, 1928- 2
Howard, David M. 2
Hunter, George W., 1861-1946. 2
International Congress on World Evangelization. 2
Kuhn, Isobel. 2
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 2
Machen, J. Gresham (John Gresham), 1881-1937. 2
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 2
Nuñez C., Emilio Antonio. 2
Osei-Mensah, Gottfried. 2
Padilla, C. René. 2
Sider, Ronald J. 2
Stott, John R. W. 2
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. 2
Wang, Thomas. 2
World Evangelical Alliance. 2
World Evangelical Fellowship. 2
World Missionary Conference. 2
A.D. 2000 Movement. 1
Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 1
Adeyemo, Tokunboh. 1
Africa Evangelistic Enterprise. 1
Alley, Rewi, 1897-1987. 1
Allison, Lon (Lon J.), 1952-2019. 1
American Bible Society. 1
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. 1
American Council of Christian Churches. 1
American Sunday-School Union. 1
Aquino, Corazon Cojuangco. 1
Armerding, Hudson T. 1
Asia Leadership Conference on Evangelism (1987) 1
Asian Theological Seminary. 1
Assemblies of God. 1
Association of Church Missions Committees. 1
Association of Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar. 1
Atallah, Ramez. 1
Athyal, Saphir P. 1
Ayer, William Ward. 1
Bangkok Bible College (1971-) (Bangkok, Thailand) 1
Bediako, Kwame. 1
Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship. 1
Billy Graham Center. 1
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 1
Birdsall, Doug. 1
Blaine, Harriet Gertrude. 1
Blanchard, J. L. (Julia L.) 1
Bole, Simeon James, 1875- 1
Bolten, John, 1920- 1
Booth, F. Carlton. 1
Borden, William, 1887-1913. 1
Bridgman Memorial School (Shanghai, China) 1
Bryant, David, 1945- 1
Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935- 1
Bush, Luis. 1
Cape Town Commitment. 1
Carlson, Blair. 1
Carlson, Robert Dean. 1
Castro, Emilio. 1
Cedar, Paul A., 1938- 1
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
Chiang, May-ling Soong, 1897-2003. 1
Chicago Evangelistic Institute. 1
China Inter-Varsity Evangelical Christian Students Fellowship. 1
Christian School in Japan (1950-) 1
Church of South India. 1
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