- Date
- 1971-07
- Kind
- Publication
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- healthcarereligioncommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The July 1971 Beaver Beacon published Dr. and Mrs. N. P. Sorensen’s account of three months of missionary work in Madagascar. The account describes dental care at Manambaro Lutheran Hospital and later work at Ejeda, along with travel, flooding, hospital conditions, and local communities.
Evidence and limits
This record documents the Sorensens’ first-person account as published by the Beacon. It is not an independent mission log or complete travel record.
Sources
- Publishes Dr. and Mrs. N. P. Sorensen’s account of missionary work at Manambaro Lutheran Hospital and Ejeda in Madagascar, including dental care, travel, hospital conditions, flooding, and local communities. It is a first-person newspaper account, not an institutional mission log.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1971-07_Beaver-Beacon
- The held eleven-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published travel and mission account.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1971-07_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Beacon publishes the Sorensens’ Madagascar missionary account, 1971”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-sorensen-madagascar-missionary-account-1971/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, July 1971, “Dr. N. P. Sorensen’s Trip to Madagascar.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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