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History of Presbyterian mission work and missionaries. See the following related collections: Foreign missions; Domestic missions. Featured image: Missionary to China Aimee Boddy Millican (1884-1974) and radio broadcasting staff.

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Title:
"There Was Light!" A Video Documentary
Creator:
Jitegemea Production (film producer), Boro, Wanjiku (film director)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church of East Africa., Costen, James Hutten, 1931-2003--Archives., Costen, Melva Wilson, 1933-2023--Archives.
Topics:
East Africans.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:300799
Title:
Mid-East Profile.
Description:
A report from the Commissions on Missionary Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., about 1956. Explores the powerful and conflicting forces at work in the Middle East and surveys the opportunities open to Christian missions to help form a revitalized society. Filmed in the Middle East.
Creator:
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (creator)
Subject names:
Malik, Charles Habib, 1906-1987.
Topics:
Missions--Middle East.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:141949
Title:
Christian Witness in a Muslim Land
Subject names:
Christian Hospital Taxila., Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Communications and Funds Development. Media Services--Archives.
Topics:
Missions, Medical--Pakistan--Taxila., Hospitals, Ophthalmic and aural--Pakistan--Taxila.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:140894
Title:
Little Cowboy Americans, 1945.
Description:
The story of Ralph Hall and Sunday school missions in the Southwest.
Subject names:
Hall, Ralph J., 1891-1973., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions., Thorne, Frederick R., Lormer, Jane., Bayak, Jack.
Topics:
Sunday schools., Church work with cowboys., Missions--Southwestern States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:83074
Title:
Song After Sorrow, 1938, part 2.
Description:
"Song After Sorrow" (1938) was a dramatized documentary of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Congo Mission work among lepers at Bibanga. Virginia and Ray Garner, of the Africa Motion Picture Project, arrived at Bibanga in late 1938 just as Eugene Kellersberger was preparing to relocate the mission's leprosarium. A portion of the film depicts, as Virginia wrote in her diary of August 23, 1938, "homeless lepers en route [...] The ones without feet rode in carts, the women carried baskets on their heads, and the crippled hobbled along with sticks. It really was quite a scene and should be very effective." [Cf. Glenn Reynolds, "Images out of Africa : the Virginia Garner diaries of the Africa Motion Picture Project," 2011.] This is a 1990s transfer to VHS, likely provided to PHS-Montreat by the Medical Benevolence Foundation.
Creator:
1938 Africa Motion Picture Project. (creator)
Subject names:
Kellersberger, E. R. (Eugene Roland), 1888-1966., Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Congo Mission.
Topics:
Leprosy--Patients--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century., Missions to leprosy patients--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Congo (Democratic Republic)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:33555
Title:
Path of progress (1945)
Description:
Documents educational and medical mission work among African-Americans in the South.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (producer)
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., African Americans--Educational work.--Missions, African Americans--Missions, Medical.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4317
Title:
Little Negro Americans, 1945.
Description:
Depicts the influence of the church in the daily lives of African-American children in the North and the South. Intended to be used in a Getting Better Acquainted program for children.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (producer)
Subject names:
Agnew, Edith J. (Edith Josephine), 1897-1988.
Topics:
African American children., Church work with African American youth., African Americans--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4305
Title:
The Rise of a Race, 1940.
Description:
Sponsored by the Board of National Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Dramatization of mission work among young African Americans in the South.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the United States. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians., Missions--Educational work--Southern states.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4302
Title:
We mean to stay:
Description:
Documents the agency of the National Council of Churches offering economic and social welfare assistance to the underprivileged in the delta area of Mississippi.
Creator:
Roos, Barbara. (contributor), Thompson, Ken. (contributor)
Subject names:
Delta Ministry., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
Topics:
Missions--Mississippi., African Americans--Missions.
Geographic subjects:
Delta (Miss. : Region)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:4288
Title:
South of the Clouds, 1950.
Description:
The story of two women of widely different backgrounds who attend Beirut College for Women. One is a Christian, the other a Moslem. Shows educational work among women abroad.
Subject names:
Heard, Paul F., James, William., Shilin, Alan., Albekri, Saida., Beirut College for Women.
Topics:
Universities and colleges--Lebanon., Women's colleges--Lebanon., Women Education (Higher)--Lebanon.
Geographic subjects:
Lebanon.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1945

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