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3 unusual facts about South American Mission Society


C. Peter Wagner

Wagner served as a missionary in Bolivia under the South American Mission and Andes Evangelical Mission (now SIM International) from 1956 to 1971.

Hoste Island

As of 1894 the Stirling House, a prefab house built on behalf of the South American Mission Society, is reinstalled in Tekenika Bay, on the southeast coast of Hoste Island in order to avoid the abuses and crimes caused by the recent arrival of miners and diseases in Ushuaia.

South American Mission Society

In 1860 Allen Gardiner, Jr. established a second mission station at Lota, Chile, and later won important official concessions against the incumbent Catholic clergy.



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