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Teil vonCOE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"

Teil vonCOE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"

Peter A. Penner and his new bride Elizabeth (Dickman) Penner, and John F. Kroeker and his bride, Susie Hirschler, arrived in India on 9 December 1900.

Janzen Memorial School Students

CA MHC 709-13
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Teil vonCOE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"

Henry J. and Maria (Miller) Brown

Teil vonCOE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"

This photo shows General Conference Mennonite Church missionary family Henry J. and Maria (Miller) Brown and their three children -- Linda, Jessie and Roland. Brown founded a mission in China in 1909.

Taming Fu Church

CA MHC 709-18
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Teil vonCOE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"

Stephan Wang and James C. Lui

CA MHC 709-20
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Teil vonCOE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"

Bible women

CA MHC 709-21
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Teil vonCOE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"

Adult women converts in the Chinese church often worked as Bible women in village evangelism.

Alma Doering

CA MHC 709-25
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Teil vonCOE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"

Mission station in Congo

CA MHC 709-26
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Teil vonCOE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"

Dr. Rudolphe Unruh

CA MHC 709-33
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Teil vonCOE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"

Dr. Rudolphe Unruh was the sent as the first medical doctor to the Mukedi station in 1931. He directed the completion of the first section of a hospital , and left on furlough in 1936, and did not return. A replacement doctor didn't come until 6 years later.

Cover of book "Crossfire" by Levi Keidel

CA MHC 709-36
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Teil vonCOE 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.

Caption Slide: Japan, Taiwan and Columbia

CA MHC 709-37
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Teil vonCOE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"

Kobe Garage Group

CA MHC 709-38
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Teil vonCOE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"

While new General Conference Mennonite Church missionaries were in language study, a small group of new Japanese Christians emerged that held their meetings in a garage adjoining the mission house. This group was not organized into a church, but members from this group later provided significant leadership within mission congregations.