Ruislip Stamp Co.: First Day Covers – Southern Rhodesia
Ruislip Stamp Co.
First Day Covers – Southern Rhodesia
Louise Fleming Torrence 1901–1995 Missionary teacher Torrence was born in Laurel, Montana to James S. and Harriet (Fleming) Torrence. She was “appointed” a missionary in 1927 and as of 1929 was at Mount Silinda Mission in Southern Rhodesia with the American Board Mission. By 1935, she was Principal of the Boarding School and Central Day…
Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society Mutambara Girls School In June 1918 the Methodist Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society (WFMS) began work at Mutambara Mission, laying the foundations of a girl’s school. Lula Tubbs and Sadie Rexrode were the first WFMS missionaries at Mutambara. They walked the fifty miles from Umtali to the mission in order to be…
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Seventh-Day Adventist Church Solusi Mission Training School Solusi University, located 50 kilometres west of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, is a co-educational institution, which was founded in 1894 as one of the first of the hundreds of Seventh-day Adventist mission stations. It was named after Chief Soluswe, near whose home the Mission was founded. During the first decade…
Rhodesian Mail during the Bush War 1973-1980 This philatelic presentation by Mike Hughes is available – download RHODESIAN MAIL DURING THE BUSH WAR 1973 to 1980
Betty (Mason) Wolfe Betty Mason grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She attended Biola University, an evangelical Christian university outside Los Angeles, California and then studied nursing at Lutheran Hospital of Indiana. Beginning 1951, Mason served as a nurse with The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM) at the Msengedzi Mission in Southern Rhodesia. While there,…