https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Shank,_Josephus_Wenger_(1881-1970)&feed=atom&action=historyShank, Josephus Wenger (1881-1970) - Revision history2024-03-29T10:21:07ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.35.1https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Shank,_Josephus_Wenger_(1881-1970)&diff=174729&oldid=prevAlfRedekopp: "Chaco Indians" replaced with "Indigenous peoples of the Chaco"2023-01-26T19:25:58Z<p>"Chaco Indians" replaced with "Indigenous peoples of the Chaco"</p>
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</table>SusanHueberthttps://gameo.org/index.php?title=Shank,_Josephus_Wenger_(1881-1970)&diff=104881&oldid=prevSamSteiner: Update MC USA Archives link2013-12-08T12:24:52Z<p>Update MC USA Archives link</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Archives-Goshen.]'']] Identified by one historian as the father of Mennonite missions in [[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Argentina|</del>Argentina]], J. W. Shank was born 10 October 1881 at Versailles, Missouri, USA). He was a [[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church (MC)]] missionary in Argentina for 33 years. Prior to J. W. and Emma Hershey Shank's arrival in 1917, he had carefully researched five South American countries and contacted 60 missionaries to decide where a Mennonite witness should be centered. He then solicited more than $20,000 for the mission cause.</div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>J. W. loved to study literature; while awaiting coworkers, he taught in [[Nebraska (USA)|Nebraska]] and at [[Goshen College (Goshen, Indiana, USA)|Goshen College]] (from which he graduated in 1910). His hobby was writing; numerous articles gave North American Mennonite readers extensive information about how new Sunday schools were begun, peoples' characteristics, business and industry, and the [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] church in Argentina.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>J. W. loved to study literature; while awaiting coworkers, he taught in [[Nebraska (USA)|Nebraska]] and at [[Goshen College (Goshen, Indiana, USA)|Goshen College]] (from which he graduated in 1910). His hobby was writing; numerous articles gave North American Mennonite readers extensive information about how new Sunday schools were begun, peoples' characteristics, business and industry, and the [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] church in Argentina.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Archives-Goshen. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Archives-Goshen.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</ins>'']] Identified by one historian as the father of Mennonite missions in [[Argentina|Argentina]], J. W. Shank was born 10 October 1881 at Versailles, Missouri, USA). He was a [[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church (MC)]] missionary in Argentina for 33 years. Prior to J. W. and Emma Hershey Shank's arrival in 1917, he had carefully researched five South American countries and contacted 60 missionaries to decide where a Mennonite witness should be centered. He then solicited more than $20,000 for the mission cause.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Active retirement years found J. W. in deputation work, as a pastor, recording history, teaching four years at [[Eastern Mennonite University (Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA)|Eastern Mennonite College]], working as a handyman at the La Junta (Colorado, USA) center for retirees. He was privileged to return to Argentina for the 40th anniversary for Mennonite mission. He died on 17 May 1970 when living at Schowalter Villa, Hesston, Kansas.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Active retirement years found J. W. in deputation work, as a pastor, recording history, teaching four years at [[Eastern Mennonite University (Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA)|Eastern Mennonite College]], working as a handyman at the La Junta (Colorado, USA) center for retirees. He was privileged to return to Argentina for the 40th anniversary for Mennonite mission. He died on 17 May 1970 when living at Schowalter Villa, Hesston, Kansas.</div></td></tr>
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<p><b>New page</b></p><div> [[File:Shank-J.-W.-Family-1924.jpg|300px|thumb|right|''J. W. &amp; Emma Shank, <br />
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Robert and Pablo in <br />
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[http://www.mcusa-archives.org/ Mennonite Church USA &lt;br/&gt; Archives-Goshen.] Mennonite Church USA <br />
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'']] Identified by one historian as the father of Mennonite missions in [[Argentina|Argentina]], J. W. Shank was born 10 October 1881 at Versailles, Missouri, USA). He was a [[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church (MC)]] missionary in Argentina for 33 years. Prior to J. W. and Emma Hershey Shank's arrival in 1917, he had carefully researched five South American countries and contacted 60 missionaries to decide where a Mennonite witness should be centered. He then solicited more than $20,000 for the mission cause.<br />
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J. W. loved to study literature; while awaiting coworkers, he taught in [[Nebraska (USA)|Nebraska]] and at [[Goshen College (Goshen, Indiana, USA)|Goshen College]] (from which he graduated in 1910). His hobby was writing; numerous articles gave North American Mennonite readers extensive information about how new Sunday schools were begun, peoples' characteristics, business and industry, and the [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] church in Argentina.<br />
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As part of his missionary task J. W. preached, taught Argentine Christians (especially at the Bible institute), trained new missionaries, created a catechism, served as mission treasurer, investigated and developed new locations, assisted Indians with legal matters, and wrote. Family experience included frequent moves, periods of separation from his spouse or three children, [[Shank, Emma Elizabeth Hershey (1881-1939)|Emma Shank]]'s death, and a second marriage (to [[Shank, Selena Gamber (1893-1990)|Selena Gamber]]) in 1942. J. W. and Selena worked primarily with [[Chaco (South America)|Chaco]] Indians from 1943-1950, a more isolated but rigorous effort.<br />
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Active retirement years found J. W. in deputation work, as a pastor, recording history, teaching four years at [[Eastern Mennonite University (Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA)|Eastern Mennonite College]], working as a handyman at the La Junta (Colorado, USA) center for retirees. He was privileged to return to Argentina for the 40th anniversary for Mennonite mission. He died on 17 May 1970 when living at Schowalter Villa, Hesston, Kansas.<br />
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= Bibliography =<br />
Shank, J. W. "Autobiographical Notes." [also titled Establishing Christ's Church Under the Southern Cross] Typescript, Hesston, KS, 1969.<br />
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Shank, J. W. "Central Argentina as a Background for Christian Evangelism." BD thesis, Bethany Biblical Seminary, Chicago, 1933.<br />
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Shank, J. W. "Mennonite Missions in Argentina." <em class="gameo_bibliography">Gospel Herald </em>39 (1946): 784-786.<br />
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Shank, J. W. and others. <em class="gameo_bibliography">The Gospel under the Southern Cross. A History </em><em class="gameo_bibliography">of the Argentine Mennonite Mission of South America Celebrating its 25th Anniversary 1917-1942</em>. Scottdale: Mennonite Publishing House, 1943.<br />
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Shank, J. W. A series of articles about Argentina in <em class="gameo_bibliography">Christian </em><em class="gameo_bibliography">Monitor 7 </em>(April- August 1921): 109-110, 140-142, 172-174, 202-203, 236-237.<br />
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Shank, J. W. "We Enter the Chaco Indian Work." Part of Latin America Mission Study Kit. Elkhart, IN: MBM, 1951.<br />
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Shank, J. W. "To the Land of the Southern Cross." <em class="gameo_bibliography">Christian </em><em class="gameo_bibliography">Living 7 </em>(January 1960): 14-17, 32-33, 37; (February 1960): 24-27.<br />
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