Missions -- China.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 162 Collections and/or Records:
A. Bertram Lewis Letter
Collection
Identifier: Small CN 081
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one letter from A. Bertram Lewis, describing his work as missionary in Kiangsi Province, China, with China Inland Mission, the progress of evangelistic work, involvement of Chinese Christians in evangelism, and a Bible conference.
Dates:
Created: 1937
A. J. Elliot letters.
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 1994-022
Dates:
1924-1925
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Acc. 2024-029: papers of Louise Mary Marqueling, 1927-2004
Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2024-029
Dates:
1927-2004
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Accession 2025-001: Documents and books relating to Christianity in China, 1903-1960
Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2025-001
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Albert and Gertrude Grant papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 2022-009
Dates:
1932-1958
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Alex M. MacLeod manuscript.
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 1992-145
Dates:
Undated
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Almond Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 680
Scope and Contents
Diaries and oral history interviews documenting the work of Overseas Missionary Fellowship (China Inland Mission) workers Louis Almond, his first wife Stella and his second wife Helen in China (1949-1951), Thailand and the United States. Helen’s interview also describes the activities of the United States office of OMF, where she worked for many years.
Dates:
1949-1951, 2015-2016
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Almond Family Papers
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Records Microfilm
Collection
Identifier: CN 261
Brief Description
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...
Dates:
Created: 1827-1929
American Sunday School Union Records Microfilm
Collection
Identifier: CN 168
Scope and Contents
Correspondence records social and political history, including slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction period. Also documented is outreach to African and Native Americans, missions in Canada, China, France, Germany, Russia, India, and South America. This microfilm edition of the ASSU records, arranged in three series: (l) Correspondence and Reports, 1817-1915; (2) Administrative Records, 1817-1915; and (3) YOUTH'S PENNY GAZETTE, 1843-1860, and Catalogs, 1817-1910. Originals are housed in...
Dates:
Created: 1817-1915
Anna and Carl Gowman papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 2014-001
Dates:
1919-2003
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Arthur F. Glasser Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 421
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Arthur Frederick Glasser (1914-2009) in which he discusses his family background; conversion to Christianity at a Keswick conference; his education at Moody Bible Institute and Faith Seminary in Wilmington, DE; service as a chaplain during World War II; marriage, work with Dawson Trotman and the Navigators; service as a missionary in China with China Inland Mission; the Communist revolution in China; the 1951 Bournemouth conference to determine CIM's future; and...
Dates:
Created: 1989-1998
Assorted missionary materials.
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 1985-141
Dates:
1984-1985
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Baptist Missionary Society Archives Microfilm
Collection
Identifier: CN 223
Brief Description
The collection consists of the published microfilm edition of 90 reels of minutes, committee records, correspondence, and missionaries' papers of the British mission agency, organized in 1792. Also included is 1 microfilm reel (Reel A) that contains a guide printed by the Historical Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention and a comprehensive catalog identifying each letter included in the Missionary Correspondence, and 7 sheets of microfiche that consist of a calendar of missionary...
Dates:
Created: 1792-1914
Beatrice Sutherland Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 677
Scope and Contents
Materials in this collection include correspondence, newsletters, memoranda, photographs, and a church directory relating to the ministry of Beatrice Sutherland, a missionary to China with the China Inland Mission beginning in 1938 during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The materials also span her later activities as a Christian worker living in California after her retirement from full-time missionary service in 1976.
Dates:
Created: 1938-2006
Berea St. John Feiner Papers
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
Boston Recorder newspaper issues.
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1981-017
Dates:
1919
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
C. Edwin Carlson photographs.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 1993-034
Dates:
1930-1948
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Charles Blanchett Booklet
Collection
Identifier: Small CN 061
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a booklet of nine watercolor sketches illustrating a three-verse limerick written in English but lettered in a verticle stylistic Chinese script; was presented to Charles Isaac Blanchett (1875-1933) upon his arrival in Pakhoi, China (near Hong Kong), to work with the Church Missionary Society. The booklet depicts an imaginary world in which Blanchett and his colleague, Bishop Rt. Rev. G.H. Landers (bishop of Hong Kong) are ambushed by cannibals.
Dates:
Created: 1908
Charles Fairclough Letter
Collection
Identifier: Small CN 075
Scope and Contents
Ths collection contains a ten-page prayer letter from Charles Fairclough, describing a tour of mission stations in Zhejiang Province, the evidence of cultural and social upheaval in the area, an evaluation of the church in China as it emerged from persecution, reflection on the political, social and cultural developments during Fairclough's 30 years of missionary work, an overview of current developments following civil war from 1926-1928, and an evaluation of China's future. Includes 4...
Dates:
Created: 1928
Charles Thomson Prayer Letter
Collection
Identifier: Small CN 079
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one prayer letter from Charles Thomson, describing progress made in evangelistic work in China, excerpts from missionaries' letters appealing for prayer, and an appeal for new missionaries.
Dates:
Created: 1929
China Outreach Ministries materials.
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 1999-069
Dates:
Undated
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
China Youth for Christ letters.
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 2015-008
Dates:
1981-1986
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
China Youth for Christ (YFC) letters.
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 2014-052
Dates:
1986
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Chinese Christianity Documents; 1920-1947
Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2024-050
Dates:
1920-1947
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Christians Supporting Community Organizing
Collection
Identifier: SC-200
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 07/21/2015
Claremont College: China Missionary Oral History Project Records Microfilm
Collection
Identifier: CN 145
Scope and Contents
Microfilm copy of the Claremont College missionary oral history project. Microfilm includes transcripts of interviews with 44 missionaries to Pre-Communist China, representing 15 denominations or sponsoring agencies. Includes biography on each participant and index to each transcript. Subjects covered include the Boxer Rebellion, social problems, church and state, communism, medical and educational missionary activity, social change, etc. Several significant individuals and organizations...
Dates:
Created: 1969-1973
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 640
Brief Description
Predominantly correspondence and reports of the international Evangelical organization, most extensively between 1971 and 1998. IFES aims to provide staff leadership and coordinate with national staff of member movements to: witness, train and disciple students on university campuses, where student-led evangelism will have an impact on those institutions, churches, and society. The records document in detail the activities and influence of the global IFES student movement at both country and...
Dates:
1934-2000
Council for World Mission Records Microfiche
Collection
Identifier: CN 161
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 17,716 sheets of microfiche containing minutes, reports, candidates' papers, graphics, and correspondence with missionaries in Europe, Russia, the Americas, West Indies, Australia, the South Seas, Africa, China, India, and other areas. Also included are journals of missionaries, correspondence of David Livingstone, and material about a mission to Jewish people in London. The microfiche was filmed from originals in the Library of the School of Oriental and African...
Dates:
Created: 1775-1940
David H. Adeney Papers.
Collection
Identifier: CN 393
Brief Description
Adeney’s correspondence, writings (articles, books), lecture and presentation manuscripts, subject files (especially files on various China-related topics) he compiled from many sources, notebooks and loose notes, a photo album, photographs and slides, and two oral history interviews. Together these span his career as a missionary in China and Southeast Asia, staff with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in the United States, leader with International Fellowship of Evangelical Students,...
Dates:
Created: 1911-1994
Dick Springer Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 417
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview and one prayer letter relating to the ministry of Charles Oliver “Dick” Springer, missionary with Overseas Missionary Fellowship in China and Japan from 1937-1996.Series: Audio TapesOral history interview with Dick Springer in which he describes his family and their missionary interest and involvement, conversion, education (at Whitman College, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Moody Bible Institute), his involvement...
Dates:
Created: 1937-1989
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Dick Springer Papers
Doris Embery Oral History Interview
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
Doris Trefren papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 1983-033
Dates:
1931-1948
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Edwin W. Fisch Prayer Letter
Collection
Identifier: Small CN 076
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a prayer letter from Edwin William Fisch, a missionary with China Inland Mission, detailing his first days in China including descriptions of his arrival in Shanghai, the China Inland Mission compound and hospital, Shanghai street life, visits to training institutes, medical facilities, leading a worship service, travel on the Yangtze River, and the working classes.
Dates:
Created: 1937
Eileen J. Kuhn Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 464
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with Eileen J. Kuhn in which she describes her family background; her conversion to Christianity; her medical training as a nurse; life at Moody Bible Institute in the late 1940s; China Inland Mission at about the same time; her call to foreign missions; her work at the CIM retirement home in Toronto; descriptions of John and Isobel Kuhn; work among the Lisu people in Thailand and Burma; translation of the Bible into the Lisu language; contacts with a former...
Dates:
Created: 1992-1994
Eleanor Edwards Elliot birthday book.
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 1985-005
Dates:
Undated
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Eleanor R. Elliott Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 187
Scope and Contents
Family correspondence, prayer letters, brochures, newspaper clippings, prayer cards and letters from other missionaries, photographs, slides, negatives, journals and diaries, and eight interviews concerning Elliott's childhood in China, mission work with China Inland Mission (now Overseas Missionary Fellowship) in China and the Philippines, her experiences as an evangelist and teacher, her life in China during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945, and the civil war that followed. Her retirement...
Dates:
Created: 1910-1988
Elizabeth Small Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 164
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Elizabeth Stair Small in which she describes her missionary experiences in China between the earliest communist revolutions; includes customs, evangelizing methods, assistance of Chinese Christians in areas of central China; post-war pastoring in the U.S. The time period covered by the interviews is 1904-1980.
Elizabeth Small was interviewed by Robert Shuster on October 28, 1980 at the Billy Graham Center Archives at Wheaton College.
Dates:
Created: 1980
Elizabeth Warner Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: CN 075
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with Elizabeth Howard Warner (1912-2000) in which she describes her childhood in the Canton Province of China as a daughter of missionaries, Canton Christian College where her father worked, studies and personalities at Wheaton College, her mission work among girls with Door of Hope Mission in Canton and Hong Kong, Chinese education, economic and social conditions, religion (particularly Buddhism), politics and government, the impact of China's war with Japan, and...
Dates:
Created: 1978
Emerson and Grace Frey papers.
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 1983-019
Dates:
1938-1951
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Emma Ekvall article, interview transcript, and audio interview.
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 1982-157
Dates:
1943-1970
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Emmet Russell papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box 2
Identifier: 1998-023
Dates:
1919-1932
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Esther Hess Papers
Collection
Identifier: CN 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:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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Esther Hess Papers
Esther Hess teaching packet.
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 1984-014
Dates:
1982
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Esther Salzman Oral History Interview
Collection
Identifier: CN 052
Brief Description
Oral history interview with Esther I. Salzman (1906-1996), a Wheaton College alumna and missionary to China in the 1940s and to the Philippines from 1950 to 1972. Topics discussed include her education at Wheaton College, medical work in China and the Philippines, and Communism in China. The time period covered by the interview is 1906 to 1978. Esther Salzman was interviewed by Wheaton College student Fred Baker on October 28, 1978 at her home in Kankakee, IL....
Dates:
Created: 1978
Eunjin Kim oral history interview.
Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2023-001
Dates:
2023
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Evangelical Fellowship of Mission Agencies Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 165
Brief Description
Executive Directors' (Clyde Taylor, Wade Coggins, Paul McKaughan) files of the EFMA. The association of denominational and nondenominational foreign missions boards began as a commission of the National Association of Evangelicals to serve common interests of members in government relations (domestic and foreign); use of communication channels; cooperative purchasing/travel; and relations between each other. The collection is subdivided into thirteen parts: 1. Correspondence and General...
Dates:
Created: 1937-1996
Frances Catlin Birrel autobiography manuscript.
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: 1985-059
Dates:
1985
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Frances Elizabeth Smyth papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box 2
Identifier: 2013-017
Dates:
1928-1997
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Fredrik Franson Papers Microfilm
Collection
Identifier: CN 087
Scope and Contents
Microfilm copy of correspondence, reports, excerpts from sermons and other writings collected by Rev. Edward P. Torjesen on the life and ministry of Fredrik Franson (1852-1908). Materials include articles written about evangelistic work, prophecy conferences, missionary efforts on several continents, and the recruitment of Christian workers. Persons featured include mission founders A.B. Simpson and James Hudson Taylor. Materials include articles in several languages. Documents are arranged...
Dates:
Created: 1872-1909
Grace and Eric Cox papers.
Unprocessed Material — Box 3
Identifier: 2015-018
Dates:
1917-2010
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives