Record

LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/G/O 2/5
TitleOrphaned missions
Extent1 file
Date1945-1950
DescriptionCorrespondence and papers concerning inter-mission aid for German and other continental mission societies in financial difficulty after the Second World War. Also including correspondence relating to Dr M. A. C. Warren's visit to missionary societies in Germany in 1948 with CMS Newsletter, number 101, December 1948 on the theme 'Our Debt to Germany' with an account of Warren's trip.

The term 'Orphaned Missions' was initially used to describe missions cut off from their home base but also came to be used to describe 'the whole allied effort to help them' (source: 'World Christian Community in Action The Story of the World War II and Orphaned Missions' by K. S. Latourette and W. R. Hogg, 1949). CMS contributed to the IMC Orphaned Missions Fund.
Access StatusOpen

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