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Africal Album Cover
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Map from booklet about history of Brethren missions in Nigeria
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After our college years, we became pastors at Lima, Ohio for two and a half years
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After our college years, we became pastors at Lima, Ohio for two and a half years
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Stanley Bittinger, age 2
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Going away party at the ship, the vast Mauretania.
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On the way to Africa in 1930
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Garkida Mountain
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Schools and homes at Garkida Station. (as seen from Garkida Mountain)
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Desmond Bittinger with school girls
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These are the people we began to know and whose language we began to speak.
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Melvin Studebaker, Pattie and Stanley admiring the leapard that had been poisoned with strychnine to keep it from killing the African's livestock.
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Melvin Studebaker, Pattie and Stanley admiring the leapard that had been poisoned with strychnine to keep it from killing the African's livestock.
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We encouraged the farmers to get cows.
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African children
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Pet baboon with a chain around its neck
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We hunted for meat and sometimes for protection
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Women carried their babies on their back so they could work in the field and carry things.
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Everybody was friendly
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Our first homes were adobe with a grass roof.
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We clebrated Christmas Day with more than a thousand participants. This photo was taken at Marama.
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Leprosy was common, in almost every extended household
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These are the lepers
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Leper Colony
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These are the lepers
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these are the lepers
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Rupel, Robertson, Heckman
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1930; the year of the Child
