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Correspondence of Rev Thomas Cocker Brown (Foreign Secretary, LMS, 1933-1948), R. K. Orchard (Secretary for Africa, LMS, 1946-1955) and Dr H. C. Lefever (Deputy Secretary for Africa, LMS), relating to work of the LMS in the Copperbelt and relations with its mission partners. Correspondents include Frank John Dobson (LMS missionary, Northern Rhodesia, 1948-1967), B. D. Gibson (International Missionary Council), Rev Harold Barnes (Central Africa District Committee), S. Organe (USCL), Rev George Fraser, Miss G. E. M. Tapp (Secretary, Colonial Missionary Society), Richard Sabin (USCL), Canon C. G. Ruck, and James W. C. Dougal (Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee). Subjects include the appointment of Frank John Dobson at Mindolo, the possibility of the Colonial Missionary Society - in collaboration with the Congregational Union of South Africa - taking a share in the work of the UMCB, costs of repair to mission buildings at Mindolo, and resolutions passed on the transfer of UMCB property. Also includes team minutes, reports and accounts.
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In the early years, work of the missions in the industrial development of the Copperbelt was on a united basis. A report produced by the International Missionary Council in 1933, entitled 'Modern Industry and the African' led amongst other things to the formation of the United Missions in the Copperbelt (UMCB), in which the Church of Scotland, the Methodist Missionary Society (MMS), the London Missionary Society (LMS), the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA) and the United Society for Christian Literature (USCL) became partners. The UMCB had a London Committee consisting of representatives of the participating missions, responsible for planning its general policy and caring for the interests of cooperative work. The British Committee was a sub-committee of the International Missionary Council. |
In the early years, work of the missions in the industrial development of the Copperbelt was on a united basis. A report produced by the International Missionary Council in 1933, entitled 'Modern Industry and the African' led amongst other things to the formation of the United Missions in the Copperbelt (UMCB), in which the Church of Scotland, the Methodist Missionary Society (MMS), the London Missionary Society (LMS), the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA) and the United Society for Christian Literature (USCL) became ... View more |
