Secretaries' files: Central Brazil Mission, 1956-1972.

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Secretaries' files: Central Brazil Mission, 1956-1972.

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Collection consists of minutes, correspondence, and reports from missionaries, their stations, and the institutions they had founded, such as the Mackenzie Institute; it documents the educational and evangelistic mission efforts of the PCUSA's successor, the UPCUSA, in Brazil 1956-1972. The essence of this collection is the Secretaries' Files of the Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations, though some materials from its predecessor, the Board of Foreign Missions, are also included.

3 cubic ft.

Presbyterian Historical Society, PHS

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Presbyterian Historical Society, PHS

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Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Central Brazil Mission

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Instituto Mackenzie

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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...

United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Central Brazil Mission

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

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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...