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Title
Student Preachers from the Ghana School of Preaching, Kumasi, Ghana, ca.1968-1969
Creator
unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1960/1969
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
Abilene Christian University. Brown Library. Milliken Special Collections
Contact address or phone given here.
Special Collections and Archives, Brown Library, Abilene Christian University, Box 29208, Abilene, TX 79699-9208; 325-674-2348
ask@acu.libanswers.com
Description
"Student Preachers Ghana School of Preaching which Gerald O. Fruzia conducts at Kumasi - with Samuel B. Obeng, 3rd from right, who teaches with bro. Fruzia. These men served as interpreters for 10 American preachers on short term missionary Journey Feb. and Mar." A group portrait of Ghanaian Student Preachers who attended the Ghana School of Preaching in Kumasi, Ghana. This school was established and run by American missionaries from Churches of Christ. Establishing "preaching schools" for training indigenous preachers and evangelists was a common method used by missionaries from Churches of Christ for planting churches in their respective fields.
Type
image
Format
photographic print
photographs
Identifier
IMPA-ACU-JL-8-4-003.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-91223
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMPA-ACU-JL-8-4-003.jpg
Subject
Clergy
Buildings
Churches
Schools
Religious communities
Men
Religious practice
Higher education institutions
Group portraits
Time Period
1960/1969
Place
Africa
Ghana
Source
ACU/JL/8/4/3 [File]
Relation
Abilene Christian University. Brown Library. Milliken Special Collections
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Jimmie Lovell Papers, Center for Restoration Studies
Photographs from Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas, 1899-1969

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