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Carrying the vision : Eelin and her missionary friends / Melusi Sibanda ; foreword by The Rt Revd David A. Urquhart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sibanda, Melusi, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Africa.
- Education.
- Education, Secondary--Zimbabwe--Nyamamdlovu.
- Education, Secondary.
- Lay missionaries--Church of England.
- Lay missionaries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (144 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- [Bedfordshire, England] : AG Books, 2016.
- Summary:
- Using a trajectory of 20th century Anglican approaches to mission in rural Africa, this book tells the story of the development of an educational institution by tracing the faith journey of Eelin Beardall, a woman who dedicated thirty years of her life to the people of Nyamandlovu in Matabeleland region in Zimbabwe. Eelin and her husband Frank played a pioneering role in the development of Nyamandlovu's first secondary school. One of her greatest contributions to humanity was to carry out a vision for education both in the days of guerrilla warfare and in the context of post-independence troub
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 28, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 1-78538-456-2
- 1-78538-455-4
- OCLC:
- 958516940
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