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Published by Overseas Ministries Study Center, 1982
Seller: BookMarx Bookstore, Steubenville, OH, U.S.A.
Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours. Ex-library with usual marks. No marks noted in text. Binding is tight and square. . . . . . . . What we now call OMSC began officially in 1922 as the Society for Foreign Mission Welfare and was called the Houses of Fellowship. Founders Marguerite and Ida Doane (daughters of renowned hymnwriter William Howard Doane) sought to provide a place for North American missionaries on furlough to recover their health and have their spirits lifted before returning to their fields abroad. The Doanes established a complex of missionary furlough apartments in Ventnor-by-the-Sea, Absecon Island, New Jersey, and housed nearly 3,400 adult missionaries in their first 25 years (in addition to another four thousand children, pastors, and other visitors). These early visitors represented 106 mission agencies and denominational boards, 97 fields, and 443 overseas stations.