Hult, Ralph D.

Ralph Daniel Hult was born July 9, 1888, in Kearney, Nebraska. He first thought of becoming a missionary as an eighteen-year-old student at Luther College. He was so affected by what he heard about the need for missionaries in the Sudan region that his primary goal in life became to pursue mission work there. On June 14, 1917, the Synod voted to establish a mission in the Sudan and authorized the Board of Missions to call Ralph D. Hult as its missionary. He left on November 13, 1919, arrived at the port of Forcados in the Niger Delta on January 3, 1920, and then began the journey inland to the town of Ibi, but was informed that all areas of the Northeren Nigeria region of the Sudan were closed to Christian missions.

All hope for an Augustana Synod mission in the Sudan was lost March 26, 1922, when Pastor Hult received a telegram from Dr. Gustaf A. Brandelle, president of the Augustana Synod, telling him to go to Tanganyika to work in an orphaned mission field. Pastor and Mrs. Hult arrived in Moshi, Tanganyika, on December 10, 1922 and worked there until 1926 when they went on furlough.

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