Inca Union Mission Correspondence, 1917-1925 (Collection 305)

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Scope and Content:
The Inca Union Mission was organized in 1914, and included the territory of
Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, including Lake Titicaca, a part of the South American
Division. This collection of correspondence covers the period from 1917 and 1925; a
time of great strife, but also of progress in the work among the local population.
The correspondence between church leadership is mainly in English. J. M.
Howell, W. T. Knox, O. Montgomery, F. C. Varney, and E. H. Wilcox to name a few, are
the ones corresponding. They reveal much of the business of the work at the time;
orders of materials, money transactions, travels, reports on the advancement of the
Adventist work among the local people, committee meetings, and also personal letters
from home. Furthermore, there is information about evangelistic strategies and the
needs of the workers. Some of the local workers correspond in Spanish. Everyday
struggles are related concerning new schools, new fields, and life in general.
This may be the only and/or largest representative sample of mission
correspondence from this period of time extent within the Seventh-day Adventist
Church.
Arrangement:
The Inca Union Mission Correspondence collection is made up of letters in
chronological order beginning with January 1917 through December 1925. The
collection also includes a folder of miscellaneous related materials.
Provenance:
The exact date of the arrival of this collection or how it came to be at the
Andrews University Center for Adventist Research is uncertain. It came prior to 1991.
Use:
All records in this collection are open and available
for research. Suggested citation for this collection:
Box___, Fld ___, Inca Union Mission Correspondence Collection (coll 305),
Center for Adventist Research, James White Library, Andrews University,
Berrien Springs, MI.