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Name: STAUFFACHER, John Raymond

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Nee: son of John William Stauffacher

Birth Date: 18 July 1908 Rumuruti

Death Date: 1 Aug 2004 St Petersburg, Florida

First Date: 1912

Profession: Missionary, Belgian Congo

Area: Naivasha

Married: In Rowan, North Carolina 29 Nov 1934 Sara Elizabeth Sloop b. 27 July 1910 Mt. Ulla, N. Carolina, d. 1984 Clermont

Children: John Ethelbert (19 Sep 1936 Aba, Belgian Congo); Florence Elizabeth (Constance) (1938); Mary Ann (Harris) (1942); Sara J. (Maclure) (1948)

Book Reference: Red Book 1912

School: John Brown University; Columbia Bible College, Univ os S. Carolina

General Information:

Red Book 1912 - J.R. Stauffacher - Naivasha
Billy Graham Center, web 1936-1940 Began language school at Aba, Belgian Congo; later started missions work on Napopo station in Zaire (later renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo) among the Zande people
1945-1947 Transferred to Rethy AIM station in Congo to teach at Rethy Academy
1947-1953 Continued missions work at AIM Napopo Station
1953-1959 Transferred back to Rethy Station, where Raymond served as principal and teacher at Rethy Academy and together the Stauffachers served as dormitory parents.
1959-1961 Transferred back to Napopo Station, where the Stauffachers began a Bible school to train indigenous pastors and their wives. The Stauffachers were evacuated from Napopo in 1961 during the Simba Rebellion.
1961-1962 Furlough in the United States spent teaching at Columbia Christian School
1963 Returned to Africa to teach and serve as dormitory parents at Victoria Academy for missionary children n Tanzania.
1964-1970Transferred to Rift Valley Academy for missionary children in Kenya, where the Stauffachers served in the school.
1970-1973 Stauffachers retire from teaching work at Rift Valley Academy and transferred to Democratic Republic of Congo to start a Bible school to train indigenous pastors in Mboki, which was later moved to Zemio.
1973-1977 Refired from the mission field and returned to the United States to live at AIM Media Retirement Center in Clermont, FL, and Raymond taught classes at Calvary Christian School in Winter Garden, FL.

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