View source for Wiens, Aganetha "Agnes" Harder (1884-1951)

The daughter of Abraham John (1840-1924) and Anna Fast (1841-1898) Harder, Aganetha "Agnes" Harder was born 24 January 1884 at [[Alexanderwohl (Molotschna Mennonite Settlement, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine)|Alexanderwohl]] in the [[Molotschna Mennonite Settlement (Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine)|Molotschna Colony]], Russia. Her father and stepmother brought her from [[Russia|Russia]] to attend [[Bethel College (North Newton, Kansas, USA)|Bethel College]], [[North Newton (Kansas, USA)|North Newton]], KS. She graduated from Bethel Academy in 1904. Planning to be a [[Deaconess|deaconess]], she took nurse's training in Cincinnati with [[Penner, Martha Richert (1881-1957)|Martha Richert Penner]]. She married [[Wiens, Peter Jacob (1877-1945)|Peter Jacob Wiens]] on 14 February 1906 at [[West Swamp Mennonite Church (Quakertown, Pennsylvania, USA)|West Swamp Mennonite Church]], Quakertown, PA.

As a [[General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM)|General Conference Mennonite]] missionary in [[Mauhadih Mennonite Mission Station (Mauhadih, Champa, India)|Mauhadih]] and Basna (later known as [[Jagdeeshpur Mission (Garh Phuljhar, Madhya Pradesh, India)|Jagdeeshpur]]), [[India|India]], 1906-1915, 1917-1925, 1927-1937, she supervised educational, medical, and nutritional aspects of [[Mission Schools|mission boarding schools]], inspecting students every morning. Because of the [[Caste systems|caste system]], whole groups came for baptism into the Christian faith, as many as 90 at one time. The children of Agnes and Peter Wiens were Ferdinand Jacob (1907-1980), Rudolf Peter (1909-1972), Agnes Mieka Willis Bailey (1913-), Martha Elizabeth Koehn (1919-), and Frieda Esther Epp Krehbiel (1919-). Agnes Wiens died 17 August 1951.


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