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Collection 200 Papers of Robert and Winifred Hockman
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Identifier: CN 200
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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:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 201 Oral History Interview with Russell P. Shedd
Collection
Identifier: CN 201
Scope and Contents
Three oral history interviews with Russell Philip Shedd, in which he describes his upbringing by missionary parents in Bolivia; education at Wheaton College, Faith Seminary (PA), and the University of Edinburgh; Billy Graham's evangelistic meetings at Harringay and Edinburgh in 1954/55; evangelism opportunities in Scotland, 1953-55; and work with the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society in Portugal, 1959-62, and Brazil, 1962-82. The time period covered by the interviews is 1929 to...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 202 Papers of Berea St. John Feiner
Collection
Identifier: CN 202
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, articles, photographs, and various other materials created or compiled by Berea St. John Feiner. Collection includes items on a wide variety of missionary endeavors over a span of 140 years, notes of explanation with individual items, missionary stories, Feiner's and others' published articles concerning the work Harold L. and Biola Ogilvie in Nigeria and other Sudan Interior Mission personnel, a J. Herbert Kane article on Roland Bingham. Topics covered include missions in...
Dates:
Created: 1834-1973
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 203 Ephemera of Luke Rader
Collection
Identifier: CN 203
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one audio tape of brief radio broadcast messages by Luke Rader, "America's Pioneer Radio Evangelist," including hymns, poems, songs, and scripture readings by Rader accompanied by organ, piano and orchestra. The first side of the tape records short radio messages by Rader with anecdotal stories and pithy comments on their biblical significance. The second side of the tape is almost entirely short segments of musical selections, including hymns presumably sung by...
Dates:
Undated
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 204 Records of South America Mission
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Identifier: CN 204
Scope and Contents
Legal documents, reports, linguistic materials, correspondence, publications, organizational documents of SAM, chiefly 1921-1955.Materials document the mission's beginning as the Inland South America Missionary Union. In-depth reports cover all aspects of mission activities including missionary life and descriptions of their encounters with and observations of Indian tribes, methods of evangelizing, use of linguistic materials relating to Indian languages, personnel policies, social and...
Dates:
Created: 1905-1981; Other: Majority of material found in 1921-1955
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 205 Oral History Interviews with Robert D. Carlson
Collection
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.
Robert Carlson was interviewed by Robert Shuster on February 27 and April 17, 1982.
Dates:
Created: 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 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: 1956-1984
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 208 Oral History Interview with Doris Embery
Collection
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:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 209 Papers of Eugene R. Bertermann
Collection
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 focus on...
Dates:
Created: 1955-1981
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 210 Records of World Bible Study Fellowship
Collection
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 titles...
Dates:
Created: 1935-1982
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 211 Oral History Interview with Maxwell A. Kerr
Collection
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:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 212 Records of the Kathryn Kuhlman Foundation
Collection
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
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 213 Oral History Interview with Sarah "Sally" Bell
Collection
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:
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; its...
Dates:
Created: 1853, 1886-1990, 1997, n.d.; Other: Majority of material found in 1889-1990
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 216 Oral History Interview with Horst Marquardt
Collection
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:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 217 Papers of Elisa Espineli Chinn
Collection
Identifier: CN 217
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of an oral history interview with Lisa Chinn; her graduate school creative project, "Cross Cultural Awareness: Offending the Filipino Without Even Trying," which is intended to inform western missionaries coming to the Philippines (Folder 1-2); two versions of Think Home, one a manual for leading workshops and the other a self-study manual, both intended to assist international students who have studied in the United States, in...
Dates:
Created: 1972-1993
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 218 Records of the Evangelical Missions Information Service
Collection
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:
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 220 Ephemera of Francis Schaeffer
Collection
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, and...
Dates:
Created: 1963
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 221 Ephemera of Campus Crusade for Christ
Collection
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. ...
Dates:
Created: 1960
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 222 Records of the OC International
Collection
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 Inland...
Dates:
Created: 1933-1998
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 223 Records of the Baptist Missionary Society
Collection
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...
Dates:
Created: 1792-1914
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 224 Papers of J. Stratton Shufelt
Collection
Identifier: CN 224
Scope and Contents
Reports, newspaper clippings, handbills, photographs, and other ephemera relating to J. Stratton Shufelt's evangelistic activities as a song leader for Youth for Christ, Jack Shuler, John R. Rice, Harry Ironside and others. This collection also contains information on the Wheaton Revival of 1950.Topics covered in the collection include Christ for America, evangelistic rallies, Shufelt's tour of Great Britain with Harry Ironside, rescue missions, Youth for Christ, Wheaton College...
Dates:
Created: 1930-1979
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 225 Records of the Baptista Film Mission
Collection
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
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 227 Ephemera of John Pinney
Collection
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
Found in:
Billy Graham Center 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:
Billy Graham Center 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...
Dates:
Created: 1979
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 230 Oral History Interview with John A. Gration
Collection
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 attitudes...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 231 Papers of Ian and Helen Anderson
Collection
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....
Dates:
Created: 1928-1995
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 235 Papers of Redd Harper
Collection
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...
Dates:
Created: Undated
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 mission...
Dates:
Created: 1903-1994
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 237 Records of the Slavic Gospel Association
Collection
Identifier: CN-237
Scope and Contents
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 collection...
Dates:
Created: 1922-1983
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 238 Ephemera of Alan Redpath
Collection
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.
Dates:
Created: 1958, 1961
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 239 Ephemera of Paul Blanshard
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Identifier: CN 239
Scope and Contents
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...
Dates:
Created: 1961
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 240 Ephemera of the Christian Broadcasting Network
Collection
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.
Dates:
Created: 1979
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 241 Ephemera of the Chapel of the Air
Collection
Identifier: CN 241
Scope and Contents
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:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 242 Oral History Interview with Ruth E. Hess
Collection
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 Lunda...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 243 Records of the Evangelical Theological Society
Collection
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
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 244 Ephemera of the Scopes Trial
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Identifier: CN 244
Scope and Contents
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
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 247 Oral History Interview with Louis E. Knowlton
Collection
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...
Dates:
Created: 1982
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 248 Papers of William J. Barnett
Collection
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
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 249 Papers of Myron and Elizabeth Harrison
Collection
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 culture...
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Created: 1967-1993
Found in:
Billy Graham Center 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 Yourth 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 tim period covered by the interview is...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 251 Oral History Interview with Herbert Downing
Collection
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...
Dates:
Created: 1983
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 252 Oral History Interviews with Robert and Joan Brain
Collection
Identifier: CN 252
Scope and Contents
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 the...
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Created: 1983
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 255 Oral History Interview of Helen Frame
Collection
Identifier: CN 255
Scope and Contents
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 period...
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Created: 1983
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
Collection 256 Oral History Interviews with Malcolm and Helen Sawyer
Collection
Identifier: CN 256
Scope and Contents
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,...
Dates:
Created: 1985
Found in:
Billy Graham Center Archives
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- Revivals 39
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 38
- Bible -- Translating. 38
- Fundamentalism 38
- Evangelistic work -- China -- History 37
- Fundamentalism -- United States. 37
- Great Britain 37
- Radio in missionary work. 37
- Worship. 37
- Children. 36
- Christian and Missionary Alliance -- Missions -- Finance. 36
- Church and social problems. 36
- Sayers, Dorothy L. -- Archives. 36
- China. 35
- Minutes 35
- Racism 35
- Church and state -- United States. 34
- Church development, New. 34
- Culture shock. 34
- Evangelicalism. 34
- Radio in religion -- United States. 34
- Radio in religion. 34
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Students -- Social life and customs. 34 ∧ less
- Names
- Wheaton College (Ill.) 161
- Graham, Billy, 98
- Wheaton College (Ill.). 64
- China Inland Mission. 51
- Moody Bible Institute. 50
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 48
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 43
- Overseas Missionary Fellowship. 38
- Sayers, Dorothy L. 37
- Lewis, C. S. 33
- Sunday, Billy, 32
- Africa Inland Mission. 28
- Islam 27
- Rader, Paul, 27
- Youth for Christ International. 26
- Christian and Missionary Alliance 25
- Sayers, Dorothy L. (Sayers, Dorothy Leigh) 25
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 24
- Campus Crusade for Christ International. 23
- Chung-kuo kuo min tang. 22
- World Evangelical Fellowship. 22
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 21
- National Association of Evangelicals. 21
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 20
- Moody Bible Institute 20
- Sudan Interior Mission. 20
- Henry, Carl F. H. 19
- Perkins, John, 19
- Armerding, Hudson T. 18
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 18
- Rodeheaver, Homer A. 18
- Billy Graham Center. 17
- Buswell, J. Oliver. 17
- Catholic Church 17
- Chicago Gospel Tabernacle (Ill.) 17
- Jones, Clarence W. 17
- Latin America Mission. 17
- McIntire, Carl, 16
- Taylor, Clyde W. 16
- World Council of Churches. 16
- Elliot, Jim, 15
- Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 15
- Moody Memorial Church (Chicago, Ill.) 15
- Ockenga, Harold John, 15
- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 15
- Wyrtzen, Jack, 15
- Bright, Bill. 14
- Stam, John Cornelius, 14
- Africa Inland Church. 13
- Blanchard, Charles A. 13
- Colson, Charles W. 13
- Crawford, Percy B. 13
- Ford, Leighton. 13
- Fuller Theological Seminary. 13
- Fuller, Charles Edward, 13
- Howard, David M. 13
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 13
- International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. 13
- Ironside, H. A. 13
- Jesus Christ 13
- Johnson, Torrey Maynard, 13
- Jones, Bob, 13
- Plymouth Brethren. 13
- Smith, Oswald J. 13
- Wheaton College (Ill.). Graduate School 13
- Africa Inland Mission, International. 12
- Hurlburt, Charles E. 12
- Mission Aviation Fellowship. 12
- Padilla, C. Rene. 12
- Palau, Luis, 12
- Smith, Gipsy, 12
- Voice of Calvary Ministries (U.S.) 12
- Assemblies of God. 11
- Barrows, Cliff. 11
- Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 11
- Dain, Arthur John, 11
- Dunlop, Merrill. 11
- Evangelical Foreign Missions Association. 11
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 11
- Skinner, Tom, 11
- Sunday, Helen Amelia Thompson, 11
- West Suburban Hospital (Oak Park, Ill.) 11
- Woods, C. Stacey, 11
- Wright, J. Elwin. 11
- Evangelism-in-Depth. 10
- Glasser, Arthur F. 10
- Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association of North America. 10
- McCully, Theodore Edward, 10
- Navigators. 10
- Nixon, Richard M. 10
- Straw, Darien A. 10
- Tenney, Merrill C. (Merrill Chapin), 1904-1985 10
- Torrey, R. A. 10
- Trotman, Dawson E. 10
- Williams, Charles, 10
- World Vision International. 10
- Coggins, Wade T. 9
- Columbia Bible College (S.C.) 9
- Davis, Ralph T. 9
- ELWA (Radio station : Monrovia, Liberia) 9 ∧ less
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