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Peter Stam III
1917-2009
Peter Stam was was born in 1917 to a family with a tradition
of Christian service. He and his wife Mary Lou went to Africa as missionaries
with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) in 1946 and remained there until 1964, when
he became home director of the Canadian Council of AIM. In 1977 he became
director of the United States Council, a post he held until 1987, when he
retired. In addition to his decades of service with AIM, he provided leadership
in many other Christian organizations, such as the Interdenominational Foreign
Mission Association.
The BGC Archives has numerous documents and audio recordings
that testify to his service in Christian missions during a period when American
missions had a greater impact around the world than ever before. We have put
some of them up here on this page as a memorial to this servant of Jesus Christ.
Biography
1971
report by Stam of a trip to east central Africa
1979 speech to the Annual Meeting of the Interdenominational
Foreign Mission Association
1982 radio interview with stam in which he talks about
relief work, Christianity in Africa, and the future of missions
1995
autobiographical account in which Stam talks about his involvement as
a student in the Foreign Mission Fellowship, a nationwide organization for
collegians interested in becoming missionaries. The rest of the account talks
about his experiences as Christian worker in Africa and the Untied States.
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