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Buyse, Leonard.

 Person

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Collection 478 Oral History Interviews with Paul A. Buyse

 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

Collection 496 Papers of Mabel Buyse

 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

Collection 624 Ephemera of the ZamZam Incident

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