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Title: Coming Up Out of the Water, Ikot Usen, Nigeria, 1950
Creator: Eldred Echols and Boyd Reese
Date Created and/or Issued: 1950
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
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Special Collections and Archives, Brown Library, Abilene Christian University, Box 29208, Abilene, TX 79699-9208; 325-674-2348
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Description: "As one leaves the water -" A new Christian wades through the water after being baptized. This photograph comes from an album that recounts Eldred Echols and Boyd Reese's visit to Nigeria in 1950. The Lawrence Avenue Church of Christ in Nashville, Texas asked the two missionaries to visit Nigeria and report on an emerging indigenous Christian movement whose leader participated in a Bible correspondence course run by the Tennessee congregation. Upon their arrival, the missionaries found several thousand Christians led by Coolidge Akpan Okon Essien, from the Efik tribe in Eastern Nigeria, whose doctrine and practice were similar to that of American Churches of Christ.
Type: image
Format: photographic print, 6.5 x 9 cm.
photographs
Identifier: IMPA-ACU-WB-9-1-083.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-91614
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMPA-ACU-WB-9-1-083.jpg
Subject: Religious communities
Religious practice
General views
Time Period: 1950
Place: Africa
Ikot Usen
Nigeria
Source: ACU/WB/9/1/083 [File]
Relation: Abilene Christian University. Brown Library. Milliken Special Collections
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas, 1899-1969
Wendell Broom, Center for Restoration Studies

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