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First Mission Stories
Pioneering Workers
Revised June 4, 2024

CONTENTS...

...AMERICA - NORTH (USA & Canada)
...AMERICA - LATIN (SOUTH & CENTRAL
)
...CARIBBEAN (WEST INDIES & ATLANTIC ISLANDS

...AFRICA
...OCEANIA (Australia & New Zealand included)

...EUROPE - WESTERN & SOUTHERN
...EUROPE - EASTERN
...EUROPE - NORTHERN - BALTIC

...SCANDANAVIA
...UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and NORTHERN IRELAND
...ASIA (including the Orient which is the eastern part of Asia)


...NORTH AMERICA:

America:  When The First 3 Workers Came to America, 1903


Alabama: Early Workers
Alaska: Maimie, The Eskimo Woman
California #1:   Early Days in California,1904 by Mrs. Alex McPhail
California #2:  Spread of the Gospel in the Early Days by James Bone
California #3:  When the Gospel Came to the Weibe Family
California #4:  Early Memories of Iona R. Hill Wood
California #5:  Early History of the Gospel in Bakersfield, California by Jack Stancliff

Georgia:
 When the Gospel Came to Georgia
Idaho:  When the Gospel First Came to the Palouse Country, 1913
Idaho:  Those who Worked in the Lewiston, Idaho Area
Idaho: Early Workers in Viola and Surrounding Area
Indiana:  When the Workers Came to Indiana
Iowa:      First Days of the “Truth" in Iowa, 1907
Kentucky:   First Church in Hopkins

Louisiana: Account of the Early Gospel Work in Louisiana 1925-1982
Louisiana:  History of Early Gospel Work in North and Central Louisiana 1922-1938-Frank Account
Louisiana:  Early Gospel Work in North Louisiana - Hill Account
Michigan:  Early Days in Michigan, 1906-Tenniswood Account
Missouri:   First Workers to Preach in Missouri
Nebraska: Gospel Comes to Nebraska, 1907

New Mexico:
Early Missions in New Mexico
North Carolina:  How The Gospel Came to the Woods Family, 1924
North Carolina: Gospel to North Carolina by Ida H. Rhodes, 1993
Ohio & West Virginia: History of the Fellowship in Ohio and West Virginia

Oklahoma: Early Work in Oklahoma
Oregon:  When The Gospel Came To Oregon, 1907

Pennsylvania:  Some Northwest Pennsylvania History
Pennsylvania: Some North Central Pennsylvania History

South Carolina: An Account of the Gospel Reaching Our Community in 1937 ( Sumter, South Carolina USA)
Tennessee: When the Gospel First Came to Gleason, Tennessee
Texas, West:  History of West Texas Conventions by J. W. Byrd
Texas, West: Colonel Charles Goodnight by Ralph Blackburn
Washington:  Milltown Convention Story, 1911
Wyoming: Beavers Heard the Truth, 1914

Canada - Newfoundland:  Coming of Workers to Newfoundland, 1908
Canada - Traytown, Newfoundland: Gospel Came in 1912
Canada - Nova Scotia: When the First Workers came to Nova Scotia, 1906
Canada - Prince Edward Island: Early Days on Prince Edward Island, 1907
Canada - West Point, Newfoundland: Account of the Gospel Coming in 1915
Canada - Napan: New Brunswick, Canada - The Go Preachers, 1912
Canada - Quebec: 1908 - 1920



...LATIN AMERICA - (SOUTH & CENTRAL)

Latin American Countries:

South America - Account by Maurice Hawkins -1919
Mexico - Lewis Murray's Account of First Days

Ernest Robinsons Account of Manuell Leon professing

Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil

Chile
Colombia -
Since the government began requiring a university academic accreditation for pastors or missionaries, the number of workers has decreased significantly.
Ecuador
Guatemala
Paraguay
Peru
Uruguay
Venezuela



...CARIBBEAN (WEST INDIES) & ATLANTIC ISLANDS

The Caribbean Workers List is divided into 4 groups of workers: Dutch, French, Spanish and English Speaking

Barbados
Bermuda
Cuba

Dominican Republic
Haiti
Jamaica
Suriname
Trinidad & Tobago, Republic of

NOTE: The three smaller countries along the northern coast of South America—GUYANA, SURINAME, AND FRENCH GUIANA—are usually not considered “South American” relative to the work, as the workers laboring there were from the Caribbean. They don’t interact much with the work in South America, since they don’t speak the same languages, and they are much more Caribbean/European in their culture than Latin. 


...AFRICA:
Christian Church in Africa -
Statement by Overseer Louis van Dyk
South Africa
Butterworth Mission
Madagascar -
Ken Paginton's Testimony, 1981


...OCEANIA:

(Paupau New Ginea and East Timor included on Australia Workers list)

Australia & New Zealand - FIRST Pioneering Workers to Australia & NZ

Australia - Clem Geue Speaks About Sam Jones
Australia, Queensland - Pioneering Ways of the Gospel in Queensland, Australia
Australia, Western Australia - The Work of the Gospel and Conventions in Western Australia
Australia, South Australia - The Bethel Mission, South Australia, 1910

Information needed
for these Australian States
South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, Northern Territory, Tasmania

Australia & New Zealand - Adam Hutchison arrives
Australia & New Zealand - John Hardie's Arrival
Australia & New Zealand - Ralph & Rene Beattie, Married Worker Couple

New Zealand - Brief Summary of the First Days of the Work in New Zealand
New Zealand - First Workers in New Zealand
New Zealand - Friends Who Lived in the Hutt Valley 1901–2006


...EUROPE - WESTERN & SOUTHERN:

Austria
France & Belguim
Germany
Greece & Armenia [Armenia is attached to the work in Greece]
Italy
Luxenbourg - info needed
Netherlands
Portugal
Spain
Switzerland


...EUROPE - EASTERN:

Czechoslovakia existed from October 1918 until January 1, 1993, when it peacefully split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia;
Hungary
Poland & Latvia
Romania & Moldova [Moldova is attached to work in Romania]
Ukraine
Yugoslavia - information needed


...EUROPE - NORTHERN - BALTIC: The three Baltic countries are in Northern Europe are all members of the European Union: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

Estonia
(mostly worked from Finland)
Latvia
Lithuania


...RUSSIAN FEDERATION:  Former USSR & Russian Far East

Kazakhstan


...SCANDINAVIA 

Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Faroe Islands [Faroe Islands is attached to work in Denmark]
Finland & Estonia [Estonia is attached to work in Finland]
Iceland & Greenland


...UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and NORTHERN IRELAND:

England -  West Hanney Convention Story
Scotland
-  Early History of the Work in Scotland
Ireland - Account of the Early Days by Goodhand Pattison
Ireland - John Long's Journal
England, London -: Princess Victoria at Hyde Park
Wales - (combined with England)




...ASIA: (including the Orient that is the eastern part of Asia)

Bangladesh
Burma
China
East Timor
Japan
Korea
India
Indonesia, Java
Malaya ~ Malaysia (includes Sarawak and North Borneo aka Sabah)
Philippines
Sri Lanka
Taiwan
Thailand
Vietnam

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