Mary Anne Cosgrave (1863 – 1900) Mary Anne Cosgrave [spelled Cosgrove in some accounts], pioneer nurse in Rhodesia and Dominican Sisters Prioress, was born May 1863 in Summerhill, County Meath, Ireland. She was the second youngest of four children. Both her parents died of tuberculosis when she was young. She was then raised by her…
Ernest Lawrence Sells 1899–1972 Ernest Lawrence Sells was born April 1899 in Leistville, Ohio. He attended Asbury College, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison, New Jersey and Cornell University. Prior going to Africa as a missionary with the Methodist Episcopal Church, Reverend Sells was pastor at Methodist churches at Earlton and Verbank, New York. Rev. Sells…
Seventh-Day Adventist Church General Conference The General Conference coordinates the global ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a body set up under the belief that no man should be governed by the judgment of another, and any decision should be made by an assembly. The General Conference is responsible for the spiritual and developmental…
Seventh-Day Adventist Church Glendale Mission Glendale Mission (Glendale Farm) was opened by Seventh-Day Adventist Church missionaries Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Gibson 10-12 miles south of Fort Victoria (Masvingo), Southern Rhodesia in 1913. The mission farm consisted of 1900 acres and was staffed with helpers from Solusi Mission. This created an initial problem in…
Mbuma Mission Series 48857 Stamp box contains 48857 and 161 in bottom right corner. FB
Mbuma Mission Series 3938 Stamp box contains 3938 and 564 in bottom right corner. FB
Old Umtali Mission Fairfield Girls School The Methodist Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society (WFMS) opened the Fairfield Girl’s School at Old Umtali Mission (Old Mutare) in 1902 with just one pupil. By 1905, enrollment had increased to 45. Education consisted of academics in the morning and “industrial work” (home economics/vocational training) consisting of sewing, house work,…
Dwight Lamar Sherertz (1893 -1970) Dwight Lamar Sherertz, a Methodist Episcopal Church missionary to China and Southern Rhodesia, was born March 1893 in East Radford, Virginia. He received a B.A. from Roanoke College, an M.A. from Princeton University, and a honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Roanoke in 1945. He married Margarita Mary Parks (1889-1973)…
St David’s Mission Bonda Mission Hospital The first medical work in Southern Rhodesia by the Church of England among Africans began at St. David’s Mission, Bonda in 1928 with the arrival of Miss L. Adlam, a retired matron of Salisbury Hospital. With the assistance of a grant from the Society for the Propagation of the…
Church of England St David’s Mission St. David’s Mission, Bonda (also known as “Bonda Mission”), is located in the Eastern Highlands in the remote village of Bonda (Sanyatwe), Manicaland province. Bonda is about 63 km north east of Rusape. The Anglicans originally opened St. David’s Mission in 1907 as an outstation of St. Augustine’s Mission….
