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Peter Stam III |
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Birth |
April 26, 1917 in Paterson, New Jersey, United States |
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Death |
December 8, 2009 at the Lower Cape Fear Hospice & LifeCareCenter, North Carolina, United States |
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Family |
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Parents |
Peter Jr. and Margaret (Gardenier) Stam |
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Siblings |
John, Peggy, and Ruth |
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Marital Status |
Married three times and widowed twice: Mary Louise Kennedy (1943), Jeanelle Keiter (1990), Anne Zillger (1999) |
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Children |
Sharon, Bruce, Marilyn, Peter Blair. Three of the children were born in the Congo. At the time of his death he had 10 children and 15 grandchildren. |
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Conversion |
Accepted Christ as Savior at the age of 5, under his mother’s guidance |
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Ordination |
1942, at the Wheaton Bible Church to the Gospel Ministry |
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Education |
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1939 |
Graduated from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois with a B.A. in Philosophy, followed by a year at the Wheaton Graduate school |
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1942 |
Graduated from Faith Theological Seminary in Wilmington, Delaware, Untied States with a M. Div. |
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1943-1944 |
Year of postgraduate work in linguistics at the Summer Institute of Linguistics and in business administration at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada |
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Career |
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1942-1944 |
General Secretary of the Student Foreign Mission Fellowship |
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1944-1945 |
Interim Pastor at the Village Church (also known as the Western Springs Baptist Church), Western Springs, Illinois, United States |
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1946-1990 |
Member of Africa Inland Mission. Missionary to the Congo, 1946-1964 (served as principal of Rethy Academy, Congo for missionary children, language study (Bangala) and church planting in Aba, teacher then principal of the Bible school and pastor’s training school in Adi, deputy director of the Central Field Council); Canadian director of the AIM, 1964-1977; member of the International Council of the AIM, 1964-1987; Secretary of the International Council, 1970-1987; United States director of AIM, 1977-1987; US director emeritus minister-at-large and Latin American coordinator, 1987-1990; retired 1990 |
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1965-1987 |
Board member of the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA), 1965-1987; Secretary and Vice-President, 1967-1977; President, 1977-1981 |