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Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"
In 1911 the Central Conference of Mennonites and the Defenseless Mennonites formed the Congo Inland Mission, and sent missionaries to the Belgian Congo.
Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"
Agnes Sprunger completed the translation of the New Testament in the Kipendi language. The first edition was printed in 1935.
Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"
Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"
This church was built for victims of Hansen's disease.
Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"
Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"
Adult women converts in the Chinese church often worked as Bible women in village evangelism.
Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"
The first monthly church meetings in Bogota began in 1961 to follow up on former students of the Cachipay school.
Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"
A kind of Mennonite mission "compound" was created by the General Conference Mennonite Church missionaries for people with Hansen's disease. Mennonites began a boarding school for cihldren of Protestant parents suffereing from the disease.
Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"
The General Conference Mennonite Church mission work in China.
Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"
The first stage of mission work in China lasted 16 years until the evacuation in the face of civil war in 1927. By that time 23 missionaries had arrived on the field in China.
Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"
Portuguese-speaking congregations in Brazil around Curitiba and Witmarsum, have been the product of Mennonite mission activity of the Russian immigrants.
Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"
Cover of book "Crossfire" by Levi Keidel
Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"
During the decade of the 1960s, as Belgium left the colony, the new country exploded with intertribal violence and conflicts which spilled over into the Mennonite church mission.