2015 •
An Airplane Arriving at the Airport, Accra, Ghana, 1950
Authors:
Echols, Eldred
Abstract:
"We arrive in Accra, Gold Coast aboard a Pan-American Clipper. At six o'clock in the morning [it] was hot and humid." An aircraft from the Pan-American company that brought Eldred Echols and Boyd Reese, American missionaries from Churches of Christ, to Accra, Ghana. 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 partic (...)
"We arrive in Accra, Gold Coast aboard a Pan-American Clipper. At six o'clock in the morning [it] was hot and humid." An aircraft from the Pan-American company that brought Eldred Echols and Boyd Reese, American missionaries from Churches of Christ, to Accra, Ghana. 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. (Read More)
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