{"id":15205,"date":"2023-08-21T11:21:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T15:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=15205"},"modified":"2023-08-18T14:13:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T18:13:03","slug":"elizabethtown-college-high-library-exhibit-celebrates-100th-anniversary-of-church-of-the-brethrens-mission-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2023\/08\/21\/elizabethtown-college-high-library-exhibit-celebrates-100th-anniversary-of-church-of-the-brethrens-mission-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College High Library Exhibit Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Church of the Brethren\u2019s Mission in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"

A current exhibit at the Elizabethtown College High Library is telling the story of a century-long tradition of service and dedication, celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Mission in Nigeria through, \u201cRoots of Ekklesiyar Yan\u2019uwa a Nigeria (EYN): H. Stover Kulp in Nigeria.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Located in the High Library\u2019s IDEA Lab on the building\u2019s main floor, this new exhibit is free and available for the public to view from now until Sept. 28, 2023. The exhibit is <\/span>open during High Library hours<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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H. Stover Kulp<\/p><\/div>\n

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the <\/span>Church of the Brethren\u2019s mission in Nigeria<\/span><\/a>. Now known as Ekklesiyar Yan\u2019uwa a Nigeria (EYN), it is the largest national body of the Church of the Brethren in the world. The exhibit tells the story of H. Stover Kulp, one of the first two Church of the Brethren missionaries to Nigeria in 1923.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cKulp\u2019s life and work in Nigeria is an inspiring story of service and dedication,\u201d Elizabethtown College Archivist Rachel Grove Rohrbaugh said. \u201cI\u2019m appreciative of students Abigail Sholes \u201923 and Erin Moore \u201923 for their work processing the Kulp papers and the family of H. Stover Kulp for their generous donation, which made this exhibition possible.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kulp\u2019s time in Nigeria is detailed through correspondence, documents, and several hundred photographs from the newly processed H. Stover Kulp Family Papers, 1911-2016, which the Hess Archives and Special Collections received in 2021. The exhibit celebrates the seed that Kulp; his colleague, Albert Helser; and those first Nigerian Brethren planted, while also honoring the members who continue to persevere and support the church in Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout the course of the last century, EYN has grown from a small mission to the largest Church of the Brethren organization in the world, reaching nearly 1 million members. Placing a high emphasis on education, health, and agriculture, EYN\u2019s ministries include its peace witness, aid to those affected by the crisis, leadership development, Women\u2019s Fellowship (ZME), and youth programs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Visit the High Library IDEA Lab to learn more.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A current exhibit at the Elizabethtown College High Library is telling the story of a century-long tradition of service and dedication, celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Mission in Nigeria through, \u201cRoots of Ekklesiyar Yan\u2019uwa a Nigeria (EYN): H. Stover Kulp in Nigeria.\u201d Located in the High Library\u2019s IDEA Lab on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":15206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338,775],"tags":[1828,197,1350,1830,12,1829],"class_list":["post-15205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","category-campus","tag-church-of-the-brethren","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","tag-eyn","tag-high-library","tag-mission-in-nigeria","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15219,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15205\/revisions\/15219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}