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Anna Martin met and married the German missionary David Hinderer in 1852, while he was in England on furlough from his work in what is modern-day Nigeria. The Hinderers went to Yorubaland in 1856, opening work in Ibadan. Though their reception was cordial, the Christian response was not spectacular. The small church that emerged, however,…
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The journal of the Algiers Mission Band is a unique record of missionary work in a majority muslim country in the early 20th Century. The journals were written by the Mission’s founder, I. Lilias Trotter, as a means of informing her supporters (mainly in the United Kingdom) using an account of the progress of the…
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I am pleased to announce that the quarterly magazine of the Algiers Mission Band, A Thirsty Land, is now available online for the first time. The Algiers Mission Band, founded by Lilias Trotter in 1888. The magazine ran from 1927 until the agency joined with the North Africa Mission (currently AWM-Pioneers) in 1964. A Thirsty…
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Today’s free book is a biography of Alphaeus Paget Wilkes, who along with the Rev. Barclay Fowell Buxton founded the Japan Evangelistic Band at the Keswick Convention in 1903. This title is in the public domain. Mary Winifred Dunn Pattison [1877-1951], Ablaze for God. The Life Story of Paget Wilkes who for 36 years lived…