Missions
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered general works on the activities and programs of missionaries and works on Christian missions. Works on the purpose of the church and its activities are entered under Mission of the church.
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Timothy Lin Family Album
Record Group
Identifier: RG.22
Scope and Contents
The Lin family photo album consists of black and white photographs of family and friends of Rev. Timothy Lin (林道亮), and scenes from their travels in China, including Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Macau and Shanghai. There are photographs of old street scene, parade, train stations and parks. It also documented important family activities such as group photos from weddings, tomb-sweeping and celebration outside the relatives’ shop (林園).The album showed the history of Rev. Lin family which...
Dates:
1933-2010, undated
Found in:
HKBU Special Collections
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Timothy Lin Family Album
Wayne Flynt Collection
Record Group
Identifier: RG.23
Scope and Contents
The collection mainly consists of research materials collected by Professor Gerald Berkley and Professor Wayne Flynt, and the drafts and proofs of their book entitled Taking Christianity to China: Alabama Missionaries in the Middle Kingdom, 1850-1950. Prof. Berkley started to collect the materials when he first had the idea in the early 1980s of writing a book on Alabama missionaries who served in China. Before he went to pursue a law degree in 1986, Prof. Berkley turned them...
Dates:
1843-1996, undated
Found in:
HKBU Special Collections
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Wayne Flynt Collection