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Title: Senior African pastors.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: P-32195 SENIOR AFRICAN PASTORS NEW YORK -- Certificates marking completion of a nine-month African Senior Pastors’ Institute in the U.S. were presented to 10 African clergymen at the National Council of Churches’ headquarters in New York. Jointly arranged by the NCC and the World Council of Churches, the institute included seminary study, conferences and three months of local parish work. From left to right are the Rev. Joseph Adeke of the Anglican Church in Uganda; the Rev. Geoffrey Ngare, Presbyterian pastor from Ghana; the Rev. David Gana, Presbyterian pastor from West Cameroon; the Rev. Kermit Overton, fraternal worker in Cameroon for the United Presbyterian Church and director of the Institute; the Rev. Charles Kittoe, principal of Freeman College in Ghana where Methodist lay workers and catechists are trained; the Rev. Emmanuel Agyako-Mensah, Presbyterian pastor in Ghana; the Rev. Daudi Udali, Anglican pastor in Kenya; the Rev. Wesley Manda, Presbyterian pastor in Malawi; the Rev. Hezron Rachier, Anglican pastor in Kenya, and the Rev. Laadan Kamau, Anglican pastor in Kenya. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-2D-65-W)
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. P-32195; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_P-32195
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:356023

Title: An African chief is baptized.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PC-46076 AN AFRICAN CHIEF IS BAPTIZED MINNEAPOLIS -- Forty-two years after barring the rite to his sons, Abraham Abba, a village chief in the Central African Republic, is baptized a Christian by American Lutheran Church Missionary Lloyd Sand and Pastor Andre Garba, the first native to be ordained a Lutheran pastor in the Cameroon and the Central African Republic. The story of the old chief's baptism is detailed in the Oct. 1 issue of the Lutheran Standard by Dr. George H. Muedeking, editor of the Minneapolis-based American Lutheran Church publication. It begins 42 years ago when the first two Lutheran missionaries from the U.S. reached the village. The missionaries taught the chief and others to read and although many of the villagers embraced Christianity, the chief, a Muslim like his father and his children, did not. He even barred his sons from being baptized when they asked him permission. This Summer Chief Abba, well past 80, asked to be baptized and on July 4 the ceremony was performed in the village church. As a postscript to his article, Dr. Muedeking reported that Chief Abba died 20 days after his Baptism. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO Courtesy The Lutheran Standard (LS-MIN-9D-74-DS)
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. PC-46076; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_PC-46076
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:361580

Title: African exhibit at Baptist conference.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: #4378 AFRICAN EXHIBIT AT BAPTIST CONFERENCE TACOMA, Wash. -- Missionaries attending the 28th meeting here of the North American Baptist Conference, formerly the German Baptist Conference, examine an African exhibit at the First Baptist church. Articles came from the Cameroons, West Africa, where these missionaries will take up their work. LEFT TO RIGHT are: George D. Henderson, Toccoa Falls, Ga.; Miss Alma Siewert, Milwaukee, Wis.; the Rev. George A. Dunger, Hartford, Conn.; the Rev. and Mrs. Gilbert Schneider, Dallas, Ore.; Miss Esther Schultz, Auburn, Mich., and Miss Clara Gebauer, McMinnville, Ore. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (YP-TAC-WASH-MES-8E-6-M)
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. 4378; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_4378
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:360344

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