Secretaries files: Venezuela Mission, 1897-1966.

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.

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United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission of Ecumenical Mission and Relations.

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The Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.'s mission in Venezuela was established in 1897 with the arrival of Rev. and Mrs. Theodore S. Pond, who had been transferred from the neighboring mission in Colombia. Despite much prejudice toward Protestant evangelicals, a church was established there in 1900, and the station was formally organized by the Board of Foreign Missions as a separate mission in 1912. The mission was primarily educational and evangelical. Thought the mission is still in existence t...

Committee on Cooperation in Latin America

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Organized by the Committee on Reference and Council of the Foreign Missions Conference of North Amreica in 1913. Includes material from Congress on Christian Work in Latin America, Panama. From the description of Records of the Committee on Cooperation in Latin America, 1915-1961 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702132574 ...

Presbyterian church in the U.S.A.

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The Transylvania Presbytery was organized by appointment of the synods of New York and Philadelphia. The Synod of New York made part of the Presbytery of Abingdon into the Transylvania Presbytery, which encompassed the district of Kentucky and the settlements on the Cumberland River. The Reverend David Rice, Adam Rankin, Andrew McClure, and James Crawford met at the Danville, Kentucky courthouse to organize the presbytery. The synods of New York and Philadelphia appointed David Rice as moderator...

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Venezuela Mission

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Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions

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The first Presbyterian missionaries to Japan arrived in Yokohama in 1859. Despite hostility experienced by the missionaries throughout the closing decades of the 19th century, mission activities continued to expand. After 1906, the Cumberland Presbyterian Church transferred its work in Japan to the PCUSA Board of Foreign Missions. The mission's work was primarily educational and evangelistic. Because of the extensive system of Japanese hospitals and primary schools, the Board made no effort to c...

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Venezuela Mission

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