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Dyck, Ernest H. (1922-2009) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
Zaïre, then the Democratic Republic of the Congo). In September 1953, they moved to the Matende Station. After a furlough in North America in 1958, the Dycks

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Quebec (Canada) (category Provinces and Territories of Canada)
Lydia Krahn Dyck, former missionaries in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly the Belgian Congo, then Zaire), to the city of St-Jérôme. Other French

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Dyck, Ernest H. (1922-2009) (FR) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
1953, le couple Dyck était prêt à œuvrer pour le Congo Inland Mission des Frères mennonites au Congo Belge. De septembre 1953 jusqu’en 1957 Ernest dirigea

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Lenzmann, Herman (1909-2005) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
Winkler Bible School in Manitoba and pastored the Winkler Mennonite Brethren Church from 1962 to 1967. In 1968, after a year of studies in order to complete

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Janzen, Aaron A. (1882-1957) and Janzen, Ernestina Strauss (1879-1937) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
Ernestina Strauss Janzen: pioneer missionaries in Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo) for a combined total of 70 years, working in evangelism, medicine, education

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Bartsch, Henry G. (1896-1966) & Anna (1897-1989) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
(1867-1944). He was the second child of a family of six-- three sons and three daughters. In 1923 Henry was caught in the terror of the Russian Civil War and escaped

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Doering, Alma (1878-1959) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
Thirty-Five Years in the Congo. Chicago IL: Congo Inland Mission, 1945: 70-76, 79, 96-97, 103, 117-18, 171, 189, 207. Weaver, William B. History of the Central

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Klassen, Benjamin H. "Ben" (1924-2004) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
work in Africa, and they left Canada for a year of language studies in Belgium before moving on to the Belgian Congo in 1954. The Klassens served in the

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Esau, John (1926-1998) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
more, now to the Democratic Republic of Congo with the Church Partnership Evangelism Team, headquartered in Abbotsford. There he died of a heart attack on

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Baerg, William George "Willie" (1911-1984) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
for Belgian Congo (later known as the Democratic Republic of Congo), under the Board of Foreign Missions of the Conference of the Mennonite Brethren Church

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Brucks, Henry (1918-1987) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
was commissioned as missionaries. After a year at Tabor College in Hillsboro they left for language study in Belgium. In the summer of 1950 they sailed to

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Sprunger, Agnes (1885-1973) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
Institute in 1909 and from a nurses' training course in Cincinnati in 1911. After engaging in church service in Detroit, she applied to the Congo Inland Mission

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Kohm, Mathilda (1871-1949) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
the Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo) under the auspices of the Christian and Missionary Alliance. This period included four years of teamwork

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Toews, Mary Jesse (1910-1999) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
increasing attacks of malarial disease, she was forced to return to Canada in 1972 after 25 years of service in the Congo. She settled in Abbotsford where

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Janzen, Abraham Ewell (1892-1995) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
the Ukraine in March 1904. They settled on a farm in the Springfield community south of Lehigh, Kansas. Abraham attended country schools in Marion County

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Esau, Abram John (1913-2011) and Sarah Martens Esau (1918-1985) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
Abram Esau: missionary to the Belgian Congo (later renamed Zaire, then Congo) and pastor; born 4 October 1913 in Wohldemfürst, Kuban Mennonite Settlement

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Shannon, Clyde A. (1912-2000) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
to return to the Congo (called Zaire and then the Democratic Republic of Congo), Clyde and Elisabeth were accepted as missionaries in Quebec with the Mennonite

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Dyck, Susie Brucks (1909-1983) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
tropical medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, obtaining a certificate to practice in Congo. In 1951, Susie returned to Congo, this time stationed in Yassa where she

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Stevenson, Alvin (1870-1913) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
field. They agreed upon two sites in Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo) at Kalamba Mukenge in south central Congo among the Lulua people and Djoko

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Haigh, Lawrence B. (1882-1962) and Haigh, Rose Boehning (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
Bible Institute (Chicago). In Illinois he met and married Rose Boehning of Elgin, Illinois. They became the first missionaries of the Central Conference Mennonite

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Kramer, Karl K. (1906-2002) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
(1911-2003), daughter of Peter Dyck and Katharina (Peters) Dyck in 1983 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Karl Kramer died 7 November 2002 in Winnipeg, and Mary

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Sprunger, Lilly Bachman (1907-1960) and Vernon (1904-1980) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
the Congo Inland Mission in July 1931 and sailed in September for Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo). Upon arrival at Mukedi Station in Kwilu

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Derksen, Henry D. (1916-1997) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
and the Democratic Republic of the Congo). The couple spent a year and a half in language study in Quebec and Belgium before leaving for service in central

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Wall, Mathilda (1915-2012) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
her first term in the central African country of the Belgian Congo. During her first term in Africa, Wall worked as a nurse and midwife in the Kafumba and

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Buschman, Frank (1911-1989) and Clara Lohrenz Buschman (1912-1976) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
The couple had four sons, one of whom was born in the Belgian Congo and another in Belgium. Clara and Frank were ordained in Ulysses, Kansas on 3 September

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Martens, Theodor C. (1919-2002) and Frieda (Willms) (1923-2014) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
Historical Society, 2005: #376407, 642674. Missionary Album of Missionaries Serving under the Board of Foreign Mission of the Mennonite Brethren Conference, Inc

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Moser, Henry (1894-1946) and Moser, Emma (1893-1978) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
Indiana early in 1923. They arrived in the Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo) in April of that year. They pioneered a new station among the Baphende

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Graber, Archie (1901-1997) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
to extensive evangelism in the surrounding area. On furlough in 1947, Evelyn died of cancer. Archie returned to Congo alone in 1948 where he began developing

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Berg, Nettie (1923-2013) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
year of studies at Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas, USA, she left for the Belgian Congo (later Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in central

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Krahn, Margaret Dyck (1918-2011) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
dedicated missionary whose work in Africa and Canada set an example of commitment for others to follow. “Miss Margaret Dyck.” Missionary Album of Missionaries

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Funk, Erna Esther (1917-2000) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
Work in Congo: An Inventory of Records.” https://www.fresno.edu/sites/default/files/a250-10-mb-mission-congo.pdf. Missionary Album of Missionaries Serving

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Hildebrand, Henry D. (1931-2008) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
pursued further studies in medicine in Cleveland, Ohio and Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium before leaving for the Congo in 1959, bringing his wife

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Fehderau, Harold W. (1932-1997) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
at the American School of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo and at the Roslyn Academy in Nairobi, Kenya. Fehderau died of cancer on 8 April 1997,

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Andersson, Oscar (1886-1979) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
on the Kasai River in 1914. In his diary Andersson wrote about loneliness while supervising firing of kilns of raw clay bricks; of encounters with African

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Vogt, Vernon (1922-2006) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
William Vogt: missionary in the Belgian Congo; born on 13 June 1922 in Bessie, Oklahoma, USA to Jacob and Martha (Wiens) Vogt. He was the eldest of five children

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Sawatsky, Walter (1930-1961) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
an A.B. degree in 1957. In July 1957 Walter and Irma embarked upon a missionary career in the Belgian Congo of Africa. Here they served as houseparents

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Enns, Anna G. (1918-2009) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
Anna G. Enns: mission worker in the Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) and Liberia; born 14 July 1918, to David J. (1888-1966) and Elizabeth

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Lindenbach, Hulda Martens (1915-2006) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
to serve in the Belgian Congo, now called the Democratic Republic of Congo. She spent two-seven year terms with WEC as a teacher, beginning in 1945. Due

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Fischer, Anna Elsie (1923-1992) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
studied French for a year. She arrived in the Belgian Congo (later Zaire, then Democratic Republic of the Congo) in September 1954 and began her work there

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Guenther, Elsie (1910-1998) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
University. "MB Mission Work in Congo: An Inventory of Records." https://www.fresno.edu/sites/default/files/a250-10-mb-mission-congo.pdf. Obituary. Christian

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Goertzen, William (“Bill”) (1916-2010) and Martha (Epp) Goertzen (1922-2009) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
work in Congo: An Inventory of Records." https://www.fresno.edu/sites/default/files/a250-10-mb-mission-congo.pdf. Missionary Album of Missionaries Serving

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Penner, Katharina "Katy" (1924-2008) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
Penner to work as a nurse in the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). She left in August for further studies in Belgium before sailing

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Baier, George (1936-2021) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
church planters in Austria, and as dorm parents at a school for missionaries in Kinshasa, in what is now Democratic Republic of Congo. Later George was

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Goertzen, Anna Rose (1910-1994) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
first term in the Belgian Congo, Anna continued her studies in the United States, graduating in 1947 with a Bachelor of Arts from Tabor College in Hillsboro

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Willems, Kathryn L. (1907-2006) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
was a missionary and translator in the Belgian Congo (later Zaire) for forty-two years. She died in Hillsboro, Kansas on 9 May 2006 at the age of 98. Kathryn

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Schmidt, Ernest W. (1922-2005) and Leona Fast Schmidt (1923-2015) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
- 1991) in Dalmeny, Saskatchewan. They married on 20 June 1950 in Dalmeny and left in 1953 to serve as medical missionaries in the Belgian Congo (Zaire)

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Peters, Katie “Kay” (1932-2005) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
anticipation of missionary work on that continent. Following some years of missionary service in what was then the Belgian Congo, she earned a Master of Arts in

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Eidse, Ben F. (1928-2018) (category Missionaries in Democratic Republic of Congo)
either in the Congo or studying, reporting and preaching in North American during their furloughs. Ben Eidse earned a BA from Goshen College in 1959, followed

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Congo, Democratic Republic of (section Mennonite Activity in Congo)
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), known as the Congo Free State (1885-1908), Belgian Congo (1908-1960), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1960-1971)

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Africa
placed in Lesotho in 1973, in Botswana in 1975, in Burkina Faso in 1978, and in the Transkei in 1982. In North America, AIMM 's supporting base of conferences

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