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Collection 206 Oral History Interview with John C. Chin
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Identifier: CN 206
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with John C. Chin (1911-1989) in which he discusses his childhood in China, medical training, and the Chinese Christian church; the work of China Inland Mission in Honan, Szechwan, and Yunnan provinces; the Japanese occupation of China; Nationalist and Communist parties; medical work in CIM and Presbyterian hospitals; war conditions and relocation to Taiwan; Also discussed is his founding of the Lutheran Seminary, Taiwan; the contemporary status of Chinese Christians,...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 207 Papers of Mark R. Larson
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Identifier: CN 207
Scope and Contents
One oral history interview with Mark Richard Larson concerning his experiences as a missionary under Sudan Interior Mission in Nigeria, 1979-1981. Centers on agricultural mission work in the Kano area of northern Nigeria. Also included in the collection are prayer letters dated from October 1982 to August 1984 and an Sudan Interior Mission Prayer Guide (folder 1-2), and a scrapbook (folder 1-1). The scrapbook was used as a point of reference throughout the interview and should be used by...
Dates:
Created: 1981-1984
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 208 Oral History Interview with Doris Embery
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Identifier: CN 208
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Doris Embery in which she discusses the activities of her parents, who were China Inland Mission workers; her education at the CIM school in Chefoo; her reflections on the lack of uniqueness of missionary children; her work with Scripture Union, experiences as a missionary for Overseas Missionary Fellowship in Hong Kong, and her experiences after she left China. The time period covered by the interviews is 1916 to 1957.Doris Embery was interviewed by...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 209 Papers of Eugene R. Bertermann
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Identifier: CN 209
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, minutes, manuscripts, photographs, phonograph records, and other materials relating to Eugene R. Bertermann's involvement in religious broadcasting, particularly in regard to his responsibilities as president and one of the board of directors of the National Religious Broadcasters; executive director and board member of Far East Broadcasting Company; and one of the planners of the ecumenical evangelistic effort known as Key '73.Materials particularly...
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Created: 1955-1981
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 210 Records of World Bible Study Fellowship
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Identifier: CN 210
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, newsletters, minutes of meetings, correspondence course, photos, registers, address lists, and account books, and other materials related to the work of the WBSF, which included publishing and distribution of Bible studies for use around the world in prisons, hospitals, and leper colonies, and for use of missionaries and national Christian workers. [NOTE: In the Scope and Content description, the notation "folder 1-1" means box 1, folder 1.]Folder...
Dates:
Created: 1935-1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 211 Oral History Interview with Maxwell A. Kerr
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Identifier: CN 211
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Maxwell A. Kerr (1912-1997) in which he discusses his early life, conversion, C. O. Baptista (his work, personality, and family), technical problem-solving and innovations, his career after Baptista Films, and his assessment of the Christian film industry. Other topics discussed include Kerr's conversion, impressions of Carl McIntire, and expriences while a professor at Wheaton College. The time period covered by the interviews is roughly 1935 to 1982....
Dates:
Created: 1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 212 Records of the Kathryn Kuhlman Foundation
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Identifier: CN 212
Scope and Contents
Audio tapes, DVDs, films, photographs, slides, videotapes, miscellaneous correspondence, calendars, clippings, articles, news releases and Kathryn Kuhlman memorabilia, chiefly from the 1950s to 1976.Audio tapes are of Kuhlman's radio broadcasts, consisting of sermons, testimonies, musical selections and an oral history interview with Kuhlman; films record Kuhlman's early television programs; videotapes are predominatly her I BELIEVE IN MIRACLES television program, along with talk...
Dates:
Created: ca. 1910-2006; Other: Majority of material found in 1950s-1984
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 213 Oral History Interview with Sarah "Sally" Bell
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Identifier: CN 213
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Sally Bell, in which she describes her mission work with radio station HCJB in Quito, Ecuador, 1965 to 1976. Other topics discussed include: her conversion during Billy Graham's Toronto crusade in 1955, preparation for and work on the mission field with radio station HCJB in Quito, Ecuador (in the departments of evangelism, television, and administration), language school in Costa Rica, comparisons between Western and Latin American culture, the role of women in...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 215 Records of Overseas Missionary Fellowship (China Inland Mission)
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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
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 216 Oral History Interview with Horst Marquardt
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Identifier: CN 216
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Horst Marquardt, in which he discusses his childhood in Germany under the Nazi government, his work for the Communist party in east Germany, his conversion to Christianity, and his career as director of Evangeliums-Rundfunk, the German branch of Trans World Radio. Other topics discussed include: Marquardt's involvement with Hitler's "Youth Movement," conversion to Christianity, his early radio career in East Germany, listener responses and conversion experiences,...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 217 Papers of Elisa Espineli Chinn
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Identifier: CN 217
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of four oral history interviews with Lisa Chinn covering her childhood and family, education, ministry with Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship of the Philippines and InterVarsity in the United States, ministries with her husband Leiton in the US among international students (with International Students, Inc., Interaction, and their church), writing projects, and her experience as a woman leader. Also included are her graduate school creative project, "Cross Cultural...
Dates:
Created: 1972-2020
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 218 Records of the Evangelical Missions Information Service
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Identifier: CN 218
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, press releases, minutes, financial statements, reports, and photographs documenting the activities of the Evangelical Mission Information Service (EMIS), the publications arm of both the Evangelical Foreign Missions Association and the Interdenominational Foreign Missions Association. Activities documented include the publication of several mission periodicals, including Evangelical Missions Quarterly and Missionary News Service; organization of missionary conferences and...
Dates:
Created: 1964-1981
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 219 Oral History Interview with Bertil A. Ogren
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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:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 220 Ephemera of Francis Schaeffer
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Identifier: CN 220
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of one ninety-minute audio tape on which Schaeffer is lecturing to a small group of students following a chapel address at Wheaton College in 1963. There is no introduction on the tape. He elaborates on the address and answers questions in an informal session.Topics covered include an analysis of contemporary nihilistic, existential philosophy; discussion of Camus, Sartre, and others; answer to a question about what to say to children about faith, guilt,...
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Created: 1963
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 221 Ephemera of Campus Crusade for Christ
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Identifier: CN 221
Scope and Contents
Ten phonograph records and one audio tape containing messages by William R. Bright, Billy Graham, Richard C. Halverson, F.J. Huegel, J. Edwin Orr, Eugenia Price, Bernard Ramm, Wilbur Smith, and others used for various aspects of CCC ministry.The ten phonograph records are approximately twenty minutes on each side and consist of talks on selected topics delivered by Bill Bright, members of the CCC Board, and other outstanding individuals, authors, professors, and missionaries. ...
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Created: 1960
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 222 Records of the OC International
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Identifier: CN 222
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, minutes, manuscripts, handbooks, directories, photographs, etc., relating to the mission's work of evangelism, church planting and development of national leadership in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America since its origin in 1950.Documents describe the founding and expansion of the mission, administrations of Dick Hillis (first president from 1951-1976, but also including files dating back to 1933 on his years as a missionary in China with China...
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Created: 1933-1998
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 223 Records of the Baptist Missionary Society
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Identifier: CN 223
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of minutes, committee records, correspondence, and missionaries' papers.Society committees whose activities and deliberations are documented include: Finance, Candidate Board, Eastern India and Ceylon, China, and Western. Principle correspondents and figures include William Carey, Adoniram Judson, Isaac Allen, William Holman Bentley, John Chamberlain, Thomas Comber, Andrew Fuller, Joseph Jackson Fuller, George Grenfell, Alfred G. Jones, William Knibb, Joshua...
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Created: 1792-1914
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 224 Papers of J. Stratton Shufelt
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Identifier: CN 224
Scope and Contents
Reports, correspondence, newspaper clippings, handbills, photographs, and other ephemera relating to J. Stratton Shufelt's evangelistic activities as a speaker and song leader for Youth for Christ, Jack Shuler, John R. Rice, Harry Ironside and others, and as a performer or teacher at Bible conferences and other events. This collection also contains information on the Wheaton College Revival of 1950.
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Created: 1908-1982; Majority of material found in 1924-1982
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 225 Records of the Baptista Film Mission
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Identifier: CN 225
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, diaries, newsletters, scripts, catalogs, films, and other material related to the work of the Baptista Film Mission. This collection contains much information on the beginnings of the Protestant evangelical Christian film industry. Included are films featured are evangelical and fundamentalist figures like V. Raymond Edman, Billy Graham, Henry A. Ironside, Bob Jones Jr., Paul Rader, Oswald J. Smith, and Walter Wilson and nondenominational organizations. Subjects documented...
Dates:
Created: 1908-1977; Majority of material found in 1939-1963
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 227 Ephemera of John Pinney
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Identifier: CN 227
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two reels of microfilm of materials created by John Brooke Pinney (1806-1882), including a diary, reports, and correspondence to New York Colonization Society about the status of an American colony in Liberia and its educational facilities for freed African slaves, in particular the College of Monrovia. Includes details of how slavery affected Liberia, educational needs of Liberians, also early history of missionary efforts of the Presbyterian Church and American...
Dates:
Created: 1836-1975; Majority of material found within 1836-1880
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 228 Oral History Interview with Lyndon Hess
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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:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 229 Oral History Interview with L. C. Robie
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Identifier: CN 229
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with L.C. Robie in which he describes his experiences during his forty-two years as an Assemblies of God evangelist in California, New York,and Pennsylvania, beginning ca. 1920. Topics discussed include: early ministry experiences in New York state churches, successes and hostilities, importance of prayer, work in Michigan; healing from youthful illness, first conversion of factory worker and spread of faith to others, New Hope revival, visions, power of revival and...
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Created: 1979
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 230 Oral History Interview with John A. Gration
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Identifier: CN 230
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with John Alexander Gration (1926-2012). Topics discussed include: Gration's Christian activities in high school and the U.S. Navy, education at Moody Bible Institute, Gordon College, and Wheaton College; his spiritual growth and call to become a missionary, his marriage, and his first impressions of and missionary experiences with Africa Inland mission in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo), Christianity and culture, animism, superstition, AIM...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 231 Papers of Ian and Helen Anderson
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Identifier: CN 231
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, diaries, articles, clippings, manuscripts, photographs, photo albums, songbooks, lecture and sermon notes, maps, audio tapes, etc. related to the Ian and Helen Anderson's mission work with the Overseas Missionary Fellowship. The materials document their careers in China until 1951, in Taiwan until 1956, and in the Philippines until 1971, and again in Taiwan until 1974. Materials also reflect their work as regional representatives for OMF following their retirement in 1974....
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Created: 1928-1995
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 232 Papers of Esther Hess
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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.
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Created: 1931-1959; Majority of material found in 1931-1941
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 235 Papers of Redd Harper
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Identifier: CN 235
Scope and Contents
Five tapes of country-style Gospel songs; two cassettes of songs sung by Redd Harper, one by Joe Rogers, and two eight-track stereo tapes by Redd Harper.The five tapes in this collection contain eleven or twelve songs each; four tapes (T1 through T4) were recorded by Redd Harper and one (T5) by Joe Rogers. Both men sing and play with guitar accompaniment, as well as with other instruments and choral background. A complete list of tapes and songs on each tape will be found on the...
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Created: Undated
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 236 Records of Latin America Mission
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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
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 237 Records of the Slavic Gospel Association
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Identifier: CN 237
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Correspondence, minutes, prayer letters, audio tapes, films, and other materials documenting the work of the Slavic Gospel Association. Records deal with the early career of Peter Deyneka Sr.; work of individual missionaries; long range planning for the mission; radio ministry; literature publication and distribution; and evangelism in Europe, North America and South America. Collection contains significant information about the church in eastern Europe. Most of the documents in the...
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Created: 1922-1983
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 238 Ephemera of Alan Redpath
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Identifier: CN 238
Scope and Contents
Audio tapes containing sermons by Alan Redpath at various church services. Sermons include: "The Spirit-filled Life," series delivered between November 2 and December 14, 1958, at Moody Memorial Church, Chicago, Illinois, by Dr. Redpath and “Assurance of Salvation” delivered January 29, 1961 at Moody Church. Sermon topics covered include spiritual life, obedience, consecration, cleansing, and assurance of salvation.
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Created: 1958, 1961
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 239 Ephemera of Paul Blanshard
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Identifier: CN 239
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The tape in this collection consists of an address made in June 1961 to a meeting sponsored by Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State (POAU) on the 170th anniversary of the Bill of Rights. The address was delivered in Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C., by Paul Blanshard, on the topic, "The Future of Catholic Power."Blanshard began his address by pointing attention to the United States as a prime exhibit of religious pluralism, its history of...
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Created: 1961
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 240 Ephemera of the Christian Broadcasting Network
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Identifier: CN 240
Scope and Contents
Two video tapes of the dedication ceremonies of an International Communication Center for CBN, October 6, 1979, Virginia Beach, Virginia. Dedicatory address was delivered by Billy Graham, with guest musical appearances by Andre Crouch, William Harness, the Hampton Institute Choir, and Virginia Philharmonic Orchestra; master of ceremonies was Ephraim Zimbalist, Jr.
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Created: 1979
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 241 Ephemera of the Chapel of the Air
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Identifier: CN 241
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One film of a Chapel of the Air telecast service held January 14, 1962, conducted by Chaplain Carl W. Mc Geehon; order of service includes hymns, prayer, choral music by Chapel choir, musical anthems, and sermon entitled "The Living Word of God" by Chaplain Ralph R. Pace, who later joined the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. This collection consists of one film of a television broadcast on January 14, 1962. The order of service...
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Created: 1962
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 242 Oral History Interview with Ruth E. Hess
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Identifier: CN 242
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Ruth Edna DeVelde Hess (1909-1997), a missionary with the Plymouth Brethren Church at Sakeji School for missionary children in Zambia. Topics discussed include: Hess' life as a child in Wheaton, Illinois, and education at Wheaton Academy and Wheaton College; marriage to Lyndon Roth Hess; calling to be teachers of missionary children; decision to go to Africa; their work at Sakeji School from 1932 to 1982; and descriptions of life and customs in Zambia among the...
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Created: 1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 243 Records of the Evangelical Theological Society
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Identifier: CN 243
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, minutes of meetings, reports, financial records, annual and regional meeting brochures, membership records, directories, selected copies of publications, files on associated groups such as the American Scientific Affiliation, abstracts, reprints of papers delivered at meetings, audio tapes, photographs. Materials document origins of the Evangelical Theological Society, specific data on members, publishing activity, and discussion on the issue of inerrancy and authority of...
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Created: 1949-1982
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 244 Ephemera of the Scopes Trial
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Identifier: CN 244
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This collection consists of one reel of microfilm and one file of photographic postcards documenting the legal trial of the State of Tennesse vs John Thomas Scopes in 1925, known as the Scopes Monkey Trial. The microfilm contains texts of indictment, subsequent motion, judge's decision, verdict and request for new trial, and verbatim record of court proceedings. Subjects documented include evolution, church and state, creation, the relationship of the Bible to science, Fundamentalism, and...
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Created: 1925-1980
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 246 Papers of Jessie McDonald
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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:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 247 Oral History Interview with Louis E. Knowlton
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Identifier: CN 247
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Louis E. Knowlton in which he discusses his career in evangelistic work and radio technology in Brazil for the Brazilian Evangelistic Association, Inc. Topics discussed include Knowlton's early life, education, service as an Army chaplain's assistant, decision to go into technological ministry, work at WMBI and in Brazil, efforts as a street evangelist and beginnings of music studio, Brazilian churches, church-state relations, ethnic groups and cults, the use of...
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Created: 1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 248 Papers of William J. Barnett
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Identifier: CN 248
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and booklet of short stories and photographs created by William John Barnett, relating to his upbringing in Kenya as the son of missionaries with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) and his own later medical missionary service in Tanzania, Kenya, and the Comoro Islands from 1950-1990.Series: Audio TapesOral history interviews with William John Barnett in which he describes his childhood in Kenya with his missionary parents;...
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Created: 1983-1997
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 249 Papers of Myron and Elizabeth Harrison
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Identifier: CN 249
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, prayer letters, and photographs related to the missionary service of Myron and Elizabeth Harrison with Overseas Missionary Fellowship in the Philippines from 1967-1990.Series: Audio TapesOne oral history interview each with Myron and Elizabeth Harrison. Topics discussed in the interviews include missionary call, appointment and assignments in the Philippines with Overseas Missionary Fellowship, family life, the...
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Created: 1967-1993
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 250 Oral History Interview with Robert Savage
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Identifier: CN 250
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Robert Carlton Savage (1914-1987) in which he discusses his work as a missionary evangelist in Colombia (1942-1944) and his work in Ecuador for missionary radio station HCJB and Youth for Christ (1944-1969). Topics discussed include: his call to mission work and service in Colombia and Ecuador with the Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM), radio station HCJB, Youth for Christ, and various other mission-related topics. The time period covered by the interview is...
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Created: 1983
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 251 Oral History Interview with Herbert Downing
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Identifier: CN 251
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Herbert Downing (1905-1986) in which he describes his childhood as a child of missionaries in Kenya, attending Rift Valley Academy in Kenya, a visit of Theodore Roosevelt to the Academy, his father's work as pastor and administrator, Africa Inland Mission's policy on the education of missionary children, and Downing's own work as an educator at Rift Valley Academy. The time period covered by the interview is 1905-1983Herbert Downing was intereviewed by...
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Created: 1983
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 252 Oral History Interviews with Robert and Joan Brain
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Identifier: CN 252
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Oral history interviews with Robert Wesley Brain and Joan Gordon Brain, in which they discuss their life and faith, particularly their work as missionaries in Zambia with Africa Evangelical Fellowship. The Brains were interviewed separately for this collection. In the Robert Brain interview, he discusses his life on the mission field in Angola as a child and as an adult serving Africa Evangelical Fellowship at Catota Bible Institute until 1975, Manna Bible Institute in Zambia, translating...
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Created: 1983
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 255 Oral History Interview of Helen Frame
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Identifier: CN 255
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Oral history interviews with Helen Nowack Frame (1908-1999) in which she discusses her childdhood growing up in China, decision to become a missionary for Overseas Missionary Fellowship, education at Wheaton College, years of service in China, culture and political events in China; leaving China in 1951 with her husband Raymond and their children and resettlement in the Philippines, teaching at Faith Academy, development of the Bible Institute, return and activities in Wheaton. The time...
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Created: 1983
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 256 Oral History Interviews with Malcolm and Helen Sawyer
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Identifier: CN 256
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Oral history interviews with Malcolm Maurice Sawyer (1919-2007) and with Helen Irvin Sawyer, in which the Sawyers discuss their childhood, education, and working for the Christian and Missionary Alliance in China, 1948-1950 and in Laos, 1950-1975. Mission activities in Laos include church planting, training of pastors, and medical assistance to the Khamu and Hmong peoples, language study, Vietnam, Thailand and Tibet, transfer to Laos, cultural differences, political situation in Vietnam,...
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Created: 1985
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 257 Oral History Interview with James B. Dillon
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Identifier: CN 257
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with James B. Dillon in which he discusses his conversion, marriage work in Liberia for the Sudan Interior Mission (SIM), the programs of radio station Eternal Love Winning Africa (ELWA), the cultural diversity of Liberia, and the nature of indigenous Liberian hymns and worship.James Dillon was interviewed by Wheaton graduate student Claire Bureau for her ethnomusicology course on October 29, 1983 at the Billy Graham Center on Wheaton College campus. The...
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Created: 1983
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 258 Oral History Interview with Bradford E. Steiner
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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,...
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Created: 1983
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 259 Oral History Interviews with Donald A. Cook
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Identifier: CN 259
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Donald Arthur Cook (1923-2014) in which he describes his service with the Overseas Missionary Fellowship in Japan between 1956-1972. Topics discussed include upbringing, education at Wheaton College, experiences in the United States Air Force, American response to WWII, decision to join China Inland Mission (later OMF), evangelistic methods in Japan, administrative work, language difficulties, administrative duties in OMF headquarters in Hokkaido and in Tokyo,...
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Created: 1983
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 260 Oral History Interviews with Jeannette Thiessen
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Identifier: CN 260
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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
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Evangelism & Missions Archives
Collection 261 Records of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
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Identifier: CN 261
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Microfilm edition of the files of the ABCFM. The originals are at Harvard University. The units that the Archives has are: #1, letters from the offices of the Board to foreign missionaries (including letters to missionaries working with American Indians); #2, letters from missions in Africa; #3, letters from missions in Asia; #4, letters from missions in Central Asia (India, etc.); #5, letters from missions in the Near East; and #6, letters from missions on the American continents and the...
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Created: 1827-1929
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Collection 262 Oral History Interview with Raymond Buker Jr.
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Identifier: CN 262
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Raymond Bates Buker in which he describes growing up in Burma as the child of missionaries, his education at Wheaton College, his decision to become a missionary under the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society, language study; evangelization, church planting, translation, medical missions and education activities in Pakistan, working with Muslims and the Sindhi, Bhils, and Marwari tribal people, 1954-1969. Other topics discussed include: the culture,...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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- Theology 50
- Catholic Church. -- Protestant churches. 49
- Church development, New. 49
- Fund raising. 49
- Worship. 49
- Children. 48
- Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 48
- Bible colleges 47
- Financial Records 47
- Scrapbooks 47
- Church growth 46
- Church work with youth. 46
- City missions. 46
- Preaching. 46
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Faculty. 46
- Missions -- India. 45
- Revivals. 45
- Rural missions. 45
- Articles. 44
- Audiotapes 43
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 43
- Evangelistic work -- Congresses 43
- Muslims. 43
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Students. 43
- Belief and doubt. 42
- Bible -- Translating. 42
- Missions -- Africa. 42
- Racism. 42
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 42
- Evangelistic invitations. 41
- Interdenominational cooperation. 41
- Missions to Muslims. 41
- Youth 41
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 39
- Missions -- Congresses. 39
- Radio in missionary work. 39
- Baptists. 38
- Presbyterians. 38
- Salvation. 38
- Theological seminaries. 38
- Culture shock. 37
- Faith. 37 ∧ less
- Language
- English 1156
- Russian 3
- Spanish; Castilian 3
- Arabic 2
- Chinese 2
- Names
- Wheaton College (Ill.) 187
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 110
- Moody Bible Institute. 57
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 52
- China Inland Mission. 51
- Africa Inland Mission. 47
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 45
- Overseas Missionary Fellowship. 41
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 40
- Sayers, Dorothy L. (Sayers, Dorothy Leigh) 40
- Lewis, C. S. (Lewis, Clive Staples) 35
- Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 34
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 30
- Zhongguo guo min dang. 28
- Campus Crusade for Christ. 27
- Islam 27
- Rader, Paul, 1879-1938. 27
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 26
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 25
- Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 23
- World Evangelical Fellowship. 23
- Bright, Bill. 22
- National Association of Evangelicals. 22
- Wheaton College (Ill.). Graduate School 22
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 21
- Sudan Interior Mission. 21
- Rodeheaver, Homer A. (Homer Alvan), 1880-1955. 20
- The Evangelical Alliance Mission. 20
- Armerding, Hudson T. 19
- Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956. 19
- Jones, Clarence W. 19
- McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 19
- Perkins, John, 19
- Africa Inland Church. 18
- Catholic Church. 18
- Latin America Mission. 18
- Ockenga, Harold John, 1905-1985. 18
- Wyrtzen, Jack, 1913-1996. 18
- Assemblies of God. 17
- Billy Graham Center. 17
- Chicago Gospel Tabernacle (Ill.) 17
- Ford, Leighton. 17
- Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 17
- Moody Memorial Church (Chicago, Ill.) 17
- Taylor, Clyde W. 17
- Barrows, Cliff. 16
- Fuller, Charles Edward, 1887-1968. 16
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 16
- International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. 16
- Ironside, H. A. (Henry Allan), 1876-1951. 16
- Jones, Bob, 1883-1968. 16
- World Council of Churches. 16
- Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 15
- Howard, David M. 15
- Plymouth Brethren. 15
- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 15
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 14
- Colson, Charles W. 14
- Fuller Theological Seminary. 14
- Glasser, Arthur F. (Arthur Frederick), 1914- 14
- Johnson, Torrey Maynard, 1909- 14
- Smith, Oswald J. 14
- Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 14
- Columbia Bible College (Columbia, S.C.) 13
- Dain, Arthur John, 1912- 13
- Jesus Christ. 13
- Mission Aviation Fellowship. 13
- Padilla, C. Rene. 13
- Palau, Luis, 1934- 13
- Shea, George Beverly, 1909-2013. 13
- Skinner, Tom, 1942- 13
- Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928 13
- Dunlop, Merrill. 12
- Elliot, Elisabeth. 12
- Hurlburt, Charles E. 12
- McCully, Theodore Edward, 1927-1956. 12
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 12
- Saint, Nathaniel, 1923-1956. 12
- Smith, Gipsy, 1860-1947. 12
- Sunday, Helen Amelia Thompson, 1868-1957. 12
- Voice of Calvary Ministries (U.S.) 12
- Woods, C. Stacey, 1909-1983. 12
- Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 11
- Evangelical Foreign Missions Association. 11
- Navigators. 11
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 11
- Stott, John R. W. 11
- West Suburban Hospital (Oak Park, Ill.) 11
- Williams, Charles 11
- World Vision International. 11
- Wright, J. Elwin. 11
- Youth for Christ/USA. 11
- Association of Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar. 10
- College Church in Wheaton (Ill.) 10
- Dodds, Gilbert, 1918- 10
- Evangelical Churches of West Africa. 10
- Evangelism-in-Depth. 10
- Hatfield, Mark O. 10
- Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association of North America. 10
- McGavran, Donald A. (Donald Anderson), 1897-1990. 10 ∧ less
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