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Collection Title: Smith, Olive Bertha: Papers on Microfiche
Dates: 1917-1988
Identification: CFT00119
Creator:
Smith, Olive Bertha
Physical Description: 0.50
Repository:
David Allan Hubbard Library Archives
135 N. Oakland Avenue
Pasadena, CA, 91182-0002
URL: http://library.fuller.edu/archives/
Email: archives@fuller.edu
Phone: (626) 584-5311
Fax: (626) 584-5613
Missionary of the Southern Baptist Convention, Miss Bertha, served as missionary to China from 1917-1948 and as the SBC's
first missionary to Taiwan from 1948-1958. She traveled extensively around the world after her retirement from missions spreading
the gospel of Jesus Christ. In 1973, she founded the Peniel Prayer Center in Cowpens, South Carolina, a prayer retreat for
Christians across the nation.
This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
China
China -- religion
Missions
Missions -- China
Missions -- Education and promotion
Missions -- Taiwan
Prayer -- Christianity
Scholarly use within parameters of copyright law
The Olive Bertha Smith Collection consists of 433 folders documenting Smith's career as a Southern Baptist foreign missionary
to China and Taiwan and later as the founder and director of the Peniel Prayer Center near her home of Cowpens, South Carolina.
The collection includes notes from Smith's experience as a missionary to China and Taiwan and also Bible lessons, Bible notes,
journal entries, manuscript publication notes, teaching materials, 78 Chinese Bible lesson posters, and an assortment of materials
detailing the administrative history of the Peniel Prayer Center. The correspondence section contains letters from 1917-1988.
Correspondents include Jimmy Carter, Baker James Cauthen, Gerald Melton, Milledge Theron Rankin, and Adrian Rogers.
This microfiche version of the Papers of Olive Bertha Smith, filmed by James Lutzweiler, consists of 380 fiches.