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History of Presbyterian mission work and missionaries in foreign fields. Featured image: First team of Presbyterian Church in the U.S. missionaries in Korea, November 1892.

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Title:
Living Waters for the World.
Description:
Web site of Living Waters for the World (LWW), a ministry that trains volunteers to establish and lead water mission teams that partner with communities to implement and operate sustainable water purification systems and health education programs. LWW Networks come alongside water teams and partners throughout every phase of a water project. They provide essential support for sustainable water systems that produce clean water for a generation.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Synod of Living Waters. (creator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Synod of Living Waters.
Topics:
Water--Purification., Volunteer workers in environmental education.
Geographic subjects:
Spring Hill (Maury County, Tenn.), Cuba., Guatemala., Peru., Mexico., Dominican Republic., Honduras., El Salvador., Haiti., Ghana., Nicaragua.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:161252
Title:
Virginia Salgado at 15 years old, 1927.
Description:
By finding 15 Bible references in less than 15 minutes, Virginia Salgado, 15, of Toluca, Mexico, won the intermediate Christian Endeavor "sharpshooting contest," Virginia traveling all the way from Mexico to an Endeavor convention in Cleveland, O., to compete. She worked under the handicap of being unable to understand English, the announcer's words being translated. [Caption from Anaconda Standard Newspapers Archives, Anaconda, Montana, Tues., July 19, 1927, p. 2.]
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.--Archives., United Society of Christian Endeavor., Salgado, Virginia--Portraits.
Topics:
Christian youth--Mexico., Presbyterian Church--Missions--Mexico.
Geographic subjects:
Cleveland (Ohio), Mexico.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145291
Title:
Virginia Salgado at 15 years old, 1927.
Description:
By finding 15 Bible references in less than 15 minutes, Virginia Salgado, 15, of Toluca, Mexico, won the intermediate Christian Endeavor "sharpshooting contest," Virginia traveling all the way from Mexico to an Endeavor convention in Cleveland, O., to compete. She worked under the handicap of being unable to understand English, the announcer's words being translated. [Caption from Anaconda Standard Newspapers Archives, Anaconda, Montana, Tues., July 19, 1927, p. 2.]
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.--Archives., United Society of Christian Endeavor., Salgado, Virginia--Portraits.
Topics:
Christian youth--Mexico., Presbyterian Church--Missions--Mexico.
Geographic subjects:
Cleveland (Ohio), Mexico.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145290
Title:
Virginia Salgado at 15 years old, 1927.
Description:
By finding 15 Bible references in less than 15 minutes, Virginia Salgado, 15, of Toluca, Mexico, won the intermediate Christian Endeavor "sharpshooting contest," Virginia traveling all the way from Mexico to an Endeavor convention in Cleveland, O., to compete. She worked under the handicap of being unable to understand English, the announcer's words being translated. [Caption from Anaconda Standard Newspapers Archives, Anaconda, Montana, Tues., July 19, 1927, p. 2.]
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.--Archives., United Society of Christian Endeavor., Salgado, Virginia--Portraits.
Topics:
Christian youth--Mexico., Presbyterian Church--Missions--Mexico.
Geographic subjects:
Cleveland (Ohio), Mexico.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145289
Title:
William M. Baird, Jr., Anna L. Baird, and Mexican students.
Description:
Mexico. The University Student Center, Mexico City.
Subject names:
Baird, William Martyn, 1897-, Baird, Anna Landis Reist, 1895-1981., Baird family--Archives.
Topics:
Students--Mexico--Mexico City.
Geographic subjects:
Mexico City (Mexico)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116017
Title:
William M. Baird, Jr., Anna L. Baird, and Mexican students.
Description:
Mexico. The University Student Center, Mexico City.
Subject names:
Baird, William Martyn, 1897-, Baird, Anna Landis Reist, 1895-1981., Baird family--Archives.
Topics:
Students--Mexico--Mexico City.
Geographic subjects:
Mexico City (Mexico)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:115934
Title:
William M. Baird, Jr., Anna L. Baird, and Mexican students.
Description:
Mexico. The University Student Center, Mexico City.
Subject names:
Baird, William Martyn, 1897-, Baird, Anna Landis Reist, 1895-1981., Baird family--Archives.
Topics:
Students--Mexico--Mexico City.
Geographic subjects:
Mexico City (Mexico)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:115928
Title:
Two men boxing.
Description:
In the Gymnasium of the Social Center, Toluca, Mexico.
Creator:
E. Samano (photographer)
Subject names:
Wray, James Henry., Escutia, Juan.
Topics:
Boxing--Training--Mexico., Missionaries--Mexico., Missions--Mexico.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:88461
Title:
Map of old Presbyterian missionary stations in Mexico.
Description:
Our old field working with 1. Methodists, 2. Baptists, 3. Disciples, 4. Northern Presbyterians, 5. Associate Reformed Presbyterians, 6. Friends.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Executive Committee of Foreign Missions
Topics:
Missions--Mexico.
Geographic subjects:
Mexico--Maps.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:88456
Title:
Map of Presbyterian missionary stations in Mexico.
Description:
Our new stations. Map of Mexico showing division of responsibility for occupation of territory by missionary societies as agreed upon at the Conference of Christian Workers City of Mexico, February 15-21 1919.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Executive Committee of Foreign Missions.
Topics:
Missions--Mexico.
Geographic subjects:
Mexico--Maps.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:88451
Title:
Group in row boat crossing the Rio Grande.
Description:
Arriving on Mexican Soil; Crossing the Rio Grande between Brownsville, Texas and Matamoros, Mex.
Subject names:
Lowe, Sara Bedinger--Archives.
Topics:
Missionaries--Mexico., Missions--Mexico.
Geographic subjects:
Rio Grande (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:82436
Title:
Group of missionaries, Mexico.
Description:
Group of missionaries, Mexico.
Subject names:
Lee, Elise Virginia., Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. Board of Foreign Missions. Dept. of Missionary Personnel--Archives.
Topics:
Missionaries--Mexico., Women missionaries--Mexico.
Geographic subjects:
Mexico--Missionaries.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6478
Title:
Marjorie Faught in Tijuana.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Taken at Tijuana, Mexico June 21, 1940. Marjorie located in second row, first on the right.
Subject names:
Faught, Marjorie, 1907---Archives., Faught, Marjorie, 1907-
Geographic subjects:
Tijuana (Mexico)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5304
Title:
Illustrated mission lands.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Executive Committee of Foreign Missions. (author), Rankin, D. C. (editor)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.--Missions--19th century., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Laos Mission--19th century.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--19th century, Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--19th century., Missions--Brazil--19th century., Missions--Asia--19th century., Missions--Mexico--19th century., Missionaries--Thailand--19th century., Missionaries--Italy--19th century., Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)--19th century., Missionaries--Brazil--19th century., Missionaries--Asia--19th century., Missionaries--Mexico--19th century., Missionaries--Thailand--19th century., Missionaries--Italy--19th century.
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic)--Missions--19th century., Brazil--Missions--19th century., Japan--Missions--19th century., Korea--Missions--19th century., Mexico--Missions--19th century., Thailand--Missions--19th century., Italy--Missions--19th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:3554

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