ELCA Global Mission Bibliography: Kurdistan




Kurdistan/Persia (Iraq)
BEGINNINGS
1911	Soujbulak, Persia (Iraq)	Lutheran Orient Mission Society (an intersynodical missionary society)

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Fossum, Ludvig. Lutheran Evangelization Work in Persia and Kurdistan: Points and Reports on Present Conditions, Prospects, and Plans for the Future. [Berwyn, Ill.]: n.p., 1910. 16 pp. Ludvig Fossum was a missionary in Persia for the Lutheran Orient Mission Society.
Jensen, C.C.A. God Through the Shadows: History With Comments of the Lutheran Orient Missions Society... Hamilton, Ohio: Lutheran Orient Mission, [1950]. 63 pp.
Jensen, C.C.A. and Einar J. Oberg. The Messengers of God: The Mission to Kurdistan and Neighboring Areas. N.p.: Lutheran Orient Mission, 1985. 91 pp.
Laas, Maria Wiencke. Rev. Gustav Karl Albert Wiencke: A Man for Missions. N.p., 1987. 114 pp. Rev. Wiencke served as a missionary in Persia/Kurdistan 1902-1904 and later served as Superintendent of Missions, German Nebraska Synod and the Board of American Missions, ULCA.

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
Olson, Norman L. "Historical Sketch of the Lutheran Orient Mission." thesis, Luther Northwestern Theological Seminary, 1951.
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