Seventh-day Adventist Missions in Southern Africa
Irwin was reared on mission stations in Africa. I come from a line of Seventh-day Adventist pioneer missionaries. I have a soft spot in my heart for Adventist Missions in southern Africa.
This is a a web page about SDA missions in southern Africa, basically from about the equator south. I'd like to collect a little of the stories of the starting of some of these missions and what mission life was like for foreign missionaries. I envision covering the mission period of European missionaries from the start at Solusi in 1894, to about the mid-1960s.
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Do you know who started a mission and when?
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Can you help complete the table below?
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Do you have old pictures or maps of the old
missions?
- If you grew up on a mission station, what was that like?
My experience is that mission life during the first part of the 20th century gave one a different outlook on life.
If you served at or grew up on a mission station and have a short experience of what that was like or if you can help fill in the table below or have copies of pictures and/or maps you could e-mail or loan to me, I will post them on this page so all of us "old timers" can enjoy them and reminisce a bit about what mission life was like.
FAMA - Fellowhip of Adventist Missionaries to Africa - is a new site dedicated to former missionaries to Africa.
Here is a list of missions I have gleaned from the SDA Encyclopedia. Some of these missions have entries that I have gleaned from here and there. Maybe you can add something for some of them.
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