Friends Foreign Mission Audio Visual Collection: India. 1949-1966

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Friends Foreign Mission Audio Visual Collection: India. 1949-1966

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The first missionary presence of the Friends church in India was in 1892, when four missionaries, Esther Baird and Delia Fistler from the Ohio Yearly Meeting and Martha Barber and Mary Thomas of Tennessee arrived to begin their ministry under the Methodist Episcopal church. Four years later, Fistler, Baird and Barber opened a separate mission for the Friends church in Nowgong, located in the Bundelkhand District. The mission grew to include Friends missionaries from many different regions, including the North Carolina, Oregon, and New England Yearly Meetings. In 1900, a land lease was secured to allow the mission to move from a rented bungalow to a large property with several buildings, walls, and wells. In 1904, the mission expanded to Harpalpur, a nearby commercial and transit center. Building orphanages, schools and hospitals, the mission continued to grow, and in 1907, the India Mission Council was formed by order of the Friends Foreign Missionary Society of the Ohio Yearly Meeting (now Evangelical Friends Church-Eastern Region). In 1954, the India Mission Council chose to begin including Indians among their ranks in an advisory capacity, appointed by the Bundelkhand Masihi Mitra Samaj (BMMS) Yearly Meeting. Then, in 1961, the BMMS gained autonomy as a self-governing Yearly Meeting.The collection contains 4 cubic feet of glass and film slides, negative glass plates, cuts, 16mm films and audio reels from the years 1949-1966.

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Malone University, Everett L Cattell Library

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