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Zamzam (Ship)

 Organization

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Arthur and Margaret Barnett Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 630
Scope and Contents

Several recordings of oral history interviews with the Barnetts, as well as a box of miscellaneous papers. Materials describe Arthur’s growing up in Africa with missionary parents, Arthur and Margret’s courtship and marriage, joining Africa Inland Mission, the sinking of the Zamzam as the ship was sailing to Africa and their experiences as internees, the couple’s work as AIM missionaries in Tanzania, the Belgian Congo, and Kenya, and medical problems and care in Africa.

Dates: 1941, 2003-2006

Irl and Flo McCallister papers.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2014-034
Dates: 1963-1993

Irl and Florence McCallister papers.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 3
Identifier: 2007-049
Dates: 1929-2004

Mabel Buyse Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 496
Scope and Contents Diaries, photographs, correspondence, and a scrapbook relating to Mabel Easton Buyse’s missionary service with Africa Inland Mission among the Dungu and Bafuka people groups in Belgian Congo (later, Zaire) before her marriage and later service in Aru and Kasengu, Belgian Congo; Goli, Uganda; and Opari, Sudan. Buyse was involved with setting up, operating, and teaching in schools in each place she worked. The scrapbook deals with the 1941 sinking of the Zamzam, in which her brother-in-law,...
Dates: Created: 1908-1967

Paul A. Buyse Oral History Interviews

 Collection
Identifier: CN 478
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Paul Adrian Buyse (1926-2017), Africa Inland Mission worker in the Belgian Congo/Zaire. Topics covered include Buyse's childhood and youth as the son of AIM missionary parents in the Congo; education at Rethy Academy, Northwestern Schools, and Moody Bible Institute; work with North Arkansas Gospel Mission, spiritual hardships of being a missionary; his work in the Congo among pygmies; development of the Africa Inland Church in the Congo, transition from...
Dates: Created: 1993

Zamzam Incident Collection

 Collection
Identifier: CN-624
Scope and Contents

Diaries, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, oral history interviews, correspondence, photos, and other materials relating to the passengers, mainly American missionaries, who were aboard the ship Zamzam, sunk in the south Atlantic Ocean in 1941 by a German warship. Materials describe the sinking, the subsequent experiences of the passengers as German prisoners and the internment of some for the duration of the war, and reunions held in later years by the survivors and their families.

Dates: Created: 1941-2012

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Collection 4
Unprocessed Material 2
 
Subject
Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 3
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 2
Missions -- Eswatini. 2
Missions -- South Africa. 2
Missions, Medical -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 2
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Women missionaries. 2
World War, 1939-1945. 2
Ababua (African people) 1
Africa -- Description and travel. 1
Belgium -- Colonies -- Africa -- Administration. 1
Belgium -- Colonies -- Africa. 1
Biarritz (France) 1
Bible colleges -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
Boarding schools -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 1
Children of missionaries -- Kenya. 1
Christian life. 1
Christianity and culture. 1
Church development, New -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
Church growth -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
Colonialism -- History -- Africa. 1
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 1908-1960. 1
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965. 1
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Religion. 1
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Social life and customs. 1
Conversion -- Christianity. 1
Conversion -- Personal narratives. -- Christianity. 1
Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
Education -- Sudan. 1
Education -- Uganda. 1
Indigenous church administration -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
Lay missionaries. 1
Leprosy -- Hospitals -- Kenya. 1
Leprosy -- Hospitals -- Tanzania. 1
Maasai (African people) 1
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 1
Missionaries -- Retirement. 1
Missionaries' spouses. 1
Missions -- Educational work. 1
Missions -- Finance. 1
Missions -- Kenya. 1
Missions -- Sudan. 1
Missions -- Tanzania. 1
Missions -- Uganda. 1
Missions, Medical -- Kenya. 1
Missions, Medical -- Tanzania. 1
Missions, Medical. 1
Moody Bible Institute -- Alumni and alumnae. 1
Part-time missionaries. 1
Prayer groups. 1
Prisoners of war -- Germany. 1
Public worship -- Christianity. 1
Pygmies. 1
Women -- Religious life. 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives. 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German. 1
Worship -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 1
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