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BEGINNINGS |
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1860 |
Muhlenberg |
General Synod (GS - ULCA -
LCA - ELCA) |
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| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Bowne, Elizabeth. Their Silent Message. 1st Ed.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. 215 pp. |
Brittan, Harriette G. Scenes and Incidents of
Every-Day Life in Africa. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. 353 pp.
Reprint of 1860 edition. 1860 edition is also on OCLC computer database.
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Dibble, J. Birney. Outlaw for God: The Story of
Esther Bacon. Hanover, Mass.: The Christopher Publishing House, 1992. 250 pp.
Biography of missionary midwife Esther Bacon and her service in Liberia beginning in
1941 and ending with her death from Lassa fever in 1972.
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Ehrhart, Miriam, and Solveig Swendseid. Women in
Global Mission: an Oral History. Chicago: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America,
Division for Global Mission, 1993.
Narrator: Miriam Ehrhart, ULCA/LCA missionary to Liberia, 1953-1967.
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Flora, George R., New Turns on the Liberia Road: A
Mission Study Book. Philadelphia: The Board of Foreign Mission and the Women’s
Missionary Society of the United Lutheran Church in America, 1945. 228 pp.
Author served as a missionary in Liberia. Personal reflections and experiences in
narrative style, including stories about Liberians.
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An Historical Sketch of the Muhlenberg Mission.
N.p.: Board of Foreign Missions of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
the United States of America, 1914. 27pp.
Location: Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
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| History of Liberia. Rev. ed. Brewersville,
Liberia: Lott Carey Mission Press, 1944. 37 pp. |
Leidenfrost, Jane, and Solveig Swendseid. Women in
Global Mission: an Oral History. Chicago: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America,
Division for Global Mission, 1993.
Narrator: Jane Leidenfrost, ULCA/LCA/ELCA missionary to Liberia, 1956-1989.
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Leonard, Gertrude Simpson. Our Africa Story: An
Account of the Woman’s Home and Foreign Mission Society at Muhlenberg Mission,
Liberia, Africa. Baltimore, Md.: Woman’s Home and Foreign Missionary Society,
General Synod, 1918. 40 pp.
A brief description of Liberia and of mission work from 1860 through 1918. Table shows
service of missionaries.
Location: ELCA Archives, Chicago - uncatalogued item
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Lutheran Centennial in Liberia 1860-1960. N.p.:
1960. 20pp.
Pictorial pamphlet.
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Miller, Margaret, and Solveig Swendseid. Women in
Global Mission: an Oral History. Chicago: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America,
Division for Global Mission, 1993.
Narrator: Margaret Miller, ULCA/LCA missionary to Liberia, 1954 - 1988.
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| Officer, Morris. A Plea for a Lutheran Mission in
Liberia. Springfield, Ill.: Nonpareil Office, 1855. 24 pp. |
Otto, Elsie. Lutherans in Liberia 1860-1960.
N.p.: United Lutheran Church Women and the Board of Foreign Missions of The United
Lutheran Church in America, 1960. 24 pp.
Large pages, many pictures. Overview of Lutheran missions and churches in Liberia.
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| Sadler, Roslyn Luce. Her Emblem A Suitcase.
Bolivar, Mo.: Quiet Waters Publications, 2001. 455 pp. |
Sadler, Roslyn, and Mary Carlson. Women in Global
Mission: an Oral History. Chicago: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Division
for Global Mission, 1993.
Narrator: Roslyn Sadler, ULCA missionary to Liberia, 1941-1958.
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| Sadler, Wesley. The Loma Literature Program.
Monrovia, Liberia: Lutheran Mission, 1958. Location: Lutheran School of Theology at
Chicago |
Schmalenberger, Carol and Jerry Schmalenberger. Liberian
Journal. N.p., 1987 85 pp.
Sketches and stories of the Lutheran Church in Liberia, including some history and
descriptions of Schmalenbergers’ travels.
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Seebach, Margaret R. Man in the Bush.
Philadelphia: The Board of Foreign Mission and the Women’s Missionary Society of the
United Lutheran Church in America, 1945. 159 pp.
Brief history of Lutheran mission work in Liberia from 1860 to 1944, in narrative
style. Includes lists of Liberia missionaries.
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Slifer, Ruth, and Solveig Swendseid. Women in Global
Mission: an Oral History. Chicago: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Division
for Global Mission, 1993.
Narrator: Ruth Slifer, ULCA missionary to Liberia, 1950-1962.
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Spehr, Lydia, and Solveig Swendseid. Women in Global
Mission: an Oral History. Chicago: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Division
for Global Mission, 1993.
Narrator: Lydia Spehr, ULCA/LCA missionary to Liberia, 1949-1965
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Solvik, Clarice Norine, and Solveig Swendseid. Women
in Global Mission: an Oral History. Chicago: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America,
Division for Global Mission, 1993.
Narrator: Clarice Solvik, LCA missionary to Liberia, 1965-1973.
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Stakeman, Randolph. The Cultural Politics of
Religious Change: A Study of the Sanoyea Kpelle in Liberia.. Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen
Press, 1986. 255 pp.
Author is not Lutheran but the subject includes the Lutheran church in Sanoyea. Several
of the source persons are Lutheran missionaries or Lutheran Liberians. Anthropological
study of effects of religious change on a community.
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Stull, Betty. A Trip to Liberia, 1988.
Southhampton, Mass.: B. Stull; printed by Paradise copies, 2001.
Recollections of a former missionary's trip back to Liberia fourteen years after
leaving.
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Stull, Elizabeth, and Solveig Swendseid. Women in
Global Mission: an Oral History. Chicago: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America,
Division for Global Mission, 1993.
Narrator: Elizabeth Stull, ULCA/LCA missionary to Liberia, 1959-1974.
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Visit Liberia. N.p.: Board of Foreign Missions,
ULCA, 1951. 24 pp.
Location: ELCA Archives, Chicago
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Wold, Joseph Conrad. God’s Impatience in Liberia.
Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdman’s Publishing Co., 1968. 226 pp.
Church Growth Series. Story of the growth of the church in Liberia with emphasis on
church growth and people movements. Author was a Lutheran missionary pastor in Liberia.
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Women’s Missionary Society of the ULCA, Chicago
Conference. Liberia in the Spotlight. Philadelphia: Muhlenberg Press, n.d. 32 pp.
Location: Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
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| THESES
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Dietz, Alice E. “Factors Contributing to
the Non-Acceptance of a New Collegiate Nursing Program and Hospital in
Liberia.” M.P.H. thesis, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1970.
Location: ELCA Archives, biographical file
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Seyenkulo, D. Jensen. "Jesus, the Great Ancestor:
Paul’s Jesus and Ancestorhood in a West African Tribe." M.Th. thesis,,
Luther Northwestern Theological Seminary, 1987
Confrontation and transformation of Kuwaa ancestral concepts in relation to Galatians
3.
Location: Luther Seminary
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Whetstone, Harold Vink. "Lutheran Mission in
Liberia." master's . thesis, Hartford Seminary Foundation, 1955.
History of Lutheran mission work in Liberia beginning with Morris Officer in 1860
through 1954.
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| UNPUBLISHED
MANUSCRIPTS |
Flora, George R. Come Over Into Liberia and Help Us:
A Mission Study Book. Unpublished, [1950 59?]
Lengthy original manuscript, apparently prepared for publication. Description of
Liberia and the mission there. Appeal for more missionaries and instructions to
prospective missionaries.
Location: Luther Seminary.
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Peterhaensel, Mary Alice, Living the Horrors of War.
1997. Manuscript, 9 pp.
Location: ELCA Archives, Chicago.
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