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Abondoned shot-up plane from Biafran civil war
Used in CM 19-7-1. Abondoned shot-up plane from Biafran civil war, eastern Nigeria, is of interest to several Africans, including an Ibo boy (in center of photo). An African woman sits in foreground, back to camera.
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An Ibo refugee child holds an empty bowl
Used in CM 19-1-1. An Ibo refugee child holds an empty bowl & waits for food. The Nigeria/Biafran civil war ended in Jan.
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Arthur and Jeanette Goossen with Melvin
Arthur and Jeanette Goosen with son Melvin, missionaries to Nigeria under the Sudan Interior Mission.
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At MCC headquarters in Nigeria
This is a photo of (left to right): Lami Gotom, writer William Reimer, Dr. Musa Gotom, chairman of MCC Nigeria, and Ingrid Reimer. The are standing in front of MCC Nigeria headquarters.
Heisey, Nancy
Part of Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church glass slide collection
A large group gathered outside in a village setting. A label on the photograph reads "Congregation at Sirko, Basma." This is likely related to the work of missionaries Lillian and Cyril Forth, with the Sudan Interior Mission. The Stirling Avenue congregation were supporters of the Forths.
Cyril and Lillian Forth in Nigeria
Part of Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church "Risk and Endurance" photograph collection
Caption in Risk and Endurance: "Cyril and Lillian Forth in Nigeria, 1967." The couple are standing in front of a thatch-roofed house. The Forths worked for a non-Mennonite mission agency, and had been supported in their work by the Stirling congregation for decades.
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Danladi Jeji, a student of Elmer Warkentin
Part of 1970s
Mission Report
Edwin and Irene Weaver Records
Edwin and Irene Weaver served the Mennonite Church as long-time missionaries in India, 1935-56, and Nigeria, 1959-67, and Ghana, 1969-71. Most of the records in this personal collection deal with West Africa, although there are some friendship letters to those Edwin and Irene Weaver were with in India. They retired to Hesston, Kansas, in 1989. Box 8 contains memoirs written by Irene Weaver, primarily about her childhood in India, and her time working aboard for Mennonite Board of Missions. Additionally, some of the memoirs deal with her time at Goshen College.
Weaver, Irene
Part of Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church glass slide collection
A large group gathered outside in a village setting. A label on the photograph reads "Egle Congregation" This is likely related to the work of missionaries Lillian and Cyril Forth, with the Sudan Interior Mission. The Stirling Avenue congregation were supporters of the Forths.
Note on back:"By Jon H. Yager in May 1969. Food distribution at Ohafia, the farthest end of the supply line." People are gathered with large contained in front of a building. C.f. 1994-14.1716.
Yager, Jon H.
In a library at Keffi, Nigeria
This is a photo of two students browsing in a library developed by Sanford Chilcote at the School of Preliminary Studies in Keffi, Nigeria.
Van Deusen, Monte
L-R: Isah, Jemima, Victoria, Maureen, Samuel, Elvira and Elmer Warkentin
Part of 1980s
Mission Report
L-R: Isah, Jemima, Victoria, Maureen, Samuel, Elvira and Elmer Warkentin
Martha Bender dispenses drugs to a mother and child
Note on back: "Nurse Martha Bender dispenses drugs to a mother and child at a clinic in Okpu-Umu Obo." Martha was working on the Mennonite-Quaker relief service team in Biafra. See CM 16-38-1 for her art. & 18-4-1 for her photo.
Yager, Jon H.
This is a photo of Martin Epp showing Nigerian primary school headmasters how math lessons can come alive with aids like a paper clock.
Bayless, Bernie
Missionaries Don & Naomi Unger
Don, Naomi, Jeanette and Vivian Unger, Swift Current, Saskatchewan. Missionaries to Nigeria.
King, Jim (MCC)