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Guyana
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BEGINNINGS |
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[1890] |
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New Amsterdam Local Guyanese
congregation of Rev. J.R. Mittelholzer received into the East Pennsylvania
Synod
(GS - ULCA - LCA - ELCA) |
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1915 |
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Congregation placed under the
control of Board of Foreign Missions of the General Synod after death of Rev.
Mittelholzer (GS - ULCA - LCA - ELCA) |
| 1916 |
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General Synod sends its first
missionaries |
| 1918 |
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United Lutheran Church in America
assumes sponsorship of Guyana mission (ULCA - LCA - ELCA) |
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| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Beatty, Paul B., Jr. A History of the Lutheran Church
in Guyana. Skeldon, Guyana, n.p., 1970. 135 pp.
History of Lutherans in Guyana from 1743 through 1968, including Lutheran mission work
in Guyana.
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Hansen, Ruth, and Solveig Swendseid. Women in Global
Mission: an Oral History. Chicago: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Division
for Global Mission, 1993.
Narrator: Ruth Hansen, ULCA/LCA missionary to Guyana, 1948-1981.
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Wagner, Elaine, and Anna Marie Mitchell. Women in
Global Mission: an Oral History. Chicago: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America,
Division for Global Mission, 1993.
Narrator: Elaine Wagner, ULCA/LCA missionary to Guyana, 1947-1985.
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White, Ralph J. Six Years in Hammock Land; an
Historical Sketch of the Lutheran Church in British Guiana, with Observations and
Experiences of the Missionary of the United Lutheran Church in That Land. Philadelphia:
The Board of Publication of the United Lutheran Church in America, 1922. 123 pp.
Historical sketch of the Lutheran Church in British Guiana by missionary of the
ULCA. Contains a sketch of the Ituni Lutheran Mission, the only mission of the United
Lutheran Church in America to the aboriginal Indians of the Western hemisphere.
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Denominational Publications
General Reference Works
Multiple Geographic Areas
General Topics |
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