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Lawrence W. Henderson, 1921-2003

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About Lawrence W. Henderson:

Lawrence Wallace Henderson was born in Yankton, South Dakota on February 6, 1921 and grew up in Tacoma, Washington. He graduated from the College of Puget Sound with a major in History and received a graduate degree in Theology from Yale Divinity School as well as a M.A. in Anthropology from Hartford Seminary, Hartford, CT. He then spent a career as a Minister of the United Church of Christ and as a missionary in Angola and Church leader. He was also a life-long member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

From 1945-47 Henderson served a church in Aberdeen, Washington before becoming a missionary in Angola, where he stayed from 1948 until 1969 with his wife, Muriel (”Ki”), and their children, two of whom were born in Angola. Before they arrived in Angola, the Hendersons studied Portuguese in Portugal in 1947-48. After a leave in 1969, Henderson applied for a re-entry visa for Angola, but was denied permission to return. This ended his official missionary career in Angola and he did not return to visit that country until after its independence in 1975, but it did not end his association with Angola or its people. His last visit to Angola was in 2001.

After leaving the mission field, Henderson worked at the United Church Board for World Ministries office in New York where he was Associate Secretary for Africa and later Secretary for Latin America. From 1977 to 1986 he was a pastor for churches in Leisure City and Sun City, Florida and he also published his first book on Angola. From 1986 to 1991 the Hendersons lived in Portugal; during this period he wrote another book on churches in Angola and taught at the Presbyterian Seminary in Lisbon. As one of his daughters, Nancy Henderson-James wrote in an obituary in 2003, “Angola always remained the focus of his life and he wrote three books on the church and history of colonial and post-independence Angola.” The three books were: Angola: Five Centuries of Conflict (Africa in the Modern World series: Ithaca & London: Cornell Univ.Press, 1979), which deals extensively with the brutality of Portuguese colonial policies and institutions; A Igreja Em Angola: Um Rio Com Varias Correntes (Lisbon: Ed.Alem-Mar, 1990) (English edition, The Church In Angola (Pilgrim Press, IL, 1992); and a biography of an Angolan Church leader, close associate and friend of the Hendersons, and church martyr, Jesse Chipenda, Development and the Church in Angola: Chipenda The Trailblazer (1999/2000).

Lawrence Henderson was also a scholar and teacher who had a broad and deep interest in African Studies generally and in Angola specifically. During one leave from the field in the 1950s, he earned a Master’s degree in Anthropology, as cited above. He kept in touch and consulted with scholars of Angola and Africa, and continued to publish and to participate in lectures and conferences.

Following his retirement and the publication of two more books on Angola, Henderson continued to maintain contacts with Angola and Angolans, former friends and colleagues. Lawrence Henderson died in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on July 31, 2003 aged 82.

About the Henderson collection:

The collection consists primarily of Lawrence Henderson’s newspaper clippings, articles, government documents on the then current situation in Angola, research notes, papers, and manuscripts for the books and articles Henderson wrote on Angola. The collection also contains church papers, sermons, and documents of the various church groups that Henderson was involved with. The personal papers all date from after Henderson’s stint in Angola as a missionary (1947-1969).

Folder Listing:

BOX 1
f.1 Seventh Day Adventists.
f.2 1920.
f.3 Angola Project: 2000.
f.4 1930: Jubilee.
f.5 1936.
f.6 1940s.
f.7 The 50s: Mission To Church.
f.8 1959.
f.9 1960.
f.10 1961.
f.11 1963-64.
f.12 1966.
f.13 1974.
f.14 1900/2000: Turning The World Upside Down.
f.15 All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC): Ethiopia.
f.16 AACC: Ethiopia.
f.17 AACC: Ethiopia.
f.18 AACC: Ethiopia.
f.19 Acorn.
f.20 Association of Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar (AEAM).
f.21 African Evangelical Fellowship (AEF).
f.22 AEF.
f.23 Correspondence to Henderson From: Abel Epesso.
f.24 Acculturation.
f.25 African Independent Churches.
f.26 Africanist: Carolina Seminar.
f.27 A. Agostinho Neto.
f.28 AME.
f.29 Amistad Research Center.
f.30 Amnesty International.
f.31 Amnesty International.
f.32 Angola: O Cristão e a Política.
f.33 Angola 1976: Missionary Motivation Study.

BOX 2
f.1 Angola: 1976-1991.
f.2 Angola: 1992-1993.
f.3 Angola: January-June 1994.
f.4 Angola: July-December 1994.
f.5 Angola: January 1995.
f.6 Angola: February-December 1995.
f.7 Angola: 1996-1997.
f.8 Angola Elections: 1992.
f.9 Angola Church. R.C.
f.10 Angola: Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion.
f.11 Angola Events: 1972-1977.
f.12 Angola Events: 1979-1981.
f.13 Angola Events: 1982.
f.14 Angola Events: January-April 1984.
f.15 Angola Events: May- December 1984.
f.16 Angola Events: January-July 1985.
f.17 Angola Events: August-December 1985.
f.18 Angola Latest News: January-March 1996.
f.19 Angola Memorial Scholarship (AMSF).
f.20 AMSF.
f.21 AMSF.
f.22 AMSF: Donation Cards.
f.23 AMSF.
f.24 AMSF.
f.25 AMSF.
f.26 AMSF.
f.27 AMSF: Until 1992.
f.28 AMSF: 1996-1997.
f.29 AMSF: 1998.
f.30 AMSF: 1999-2000.
f.31 Angola’s Needs.
f.32 Angola News.
f.33 Angola News.
f.34 Angola: 1986.
f.35 Angola: 1986.

BOX 3
f.1 Angola: Savimbi/McDowell Reflections.
f.2 Angola: Savimbi/McDowell Reflections.
f.3 Angola Project: 2000.
f.4 Angola Trip: 2000.
f.5 The Angola Reunion.
f.6 Xn Unity Commission.
f.7 Angola Visits: July 1985.
f.8 Angola: Writings.
f.9 Cultural Anthropology.
f.10 Arrest & Death: JCC.
f.11 Angola: Writings/Clippings.
f.12 Angola: Articles/Clippings.
f.13 Angola: Articles/Clippings.
f.14 Assassination of Pedro “Tito” Chingunji.
f.15 Asembleias de Deus.
f.16 Angola: World Council of Churches (WCC).
f.17 Angola: The Bantu.
f.18 Bailundo.
f.19 Barquinho & other correspondence.
f.20 Book Related: Bell’s Letter.
f.21 Bible Study.
f.22 Book Related: Bibliography.
f.23 Book Related: Bibliography/Notebooks.
f.24 Book Related: Bibliography/Index Cards.
f.25 Baptist Missionary Society (BMS).
f.26 Baptist Missionary Society (BMS).
f.27 Board of Christian Service.
f.28 Board of Directors-Southern Conference.
f.29 Book Related.
f.30 Book Related.
f.31 The Book.
f.32 Research For Book.
f.33 Research For Bookk.
f.34 Book Related: E-mail/Correspondence.
f.35 Book Related: Conversion/Inculturation.
f.36 Book Related: Missionary Herald.
f.37 Book Related: Church in the 1940s & 50s.
f.38 Book Related: Mission To Church.
f.39 Book Related: General Secretary.
f.40 Book Related: Tale of Two Villages.

BOX 4
Development and the Church in Angola: Jesse Chipenda the Trail Blazer
f.1 Research: Chapter 8, “Contrasts Between Catholic & Protestant Communities.”
f.2 Research: Chapter 9, “The Church in the Midst of War.”
f.3 Research: Chapter 9, (continued).
f.4 Research: Chapter 8, “The Church at Worship.”
f.5 Research: Chapter 7, “The Organization of the Church.”
f.6 Research: Chapter 15 (untitled).
f.7 Research: Chapter 6, “The Healing Ministries of the Church.”
f.8 Research: Chapter 6, (continued).
f.9 Research: Chapter 5, “The School.”
f.10 Research: Chapter 6, “The Healing Ministries.”
f.11 Research: Chapter 4, “The School.”
f.12 Research: Chapter 3, “O Crecimiento da Igreja.”
f.13 Research: Chapter 2, “The Planting of the Church.”
f.14 Research: Chapter 1, “The Soil.”
f.15 Research: Chapter 2, “The Planting of the Church.”
f.16 Research: Chapter 1.
f.17 Research: Chapter 1 (continued).
f.18 Cornell U. Press: Angola Book.
f.19 Acton Press: Contract Agreement.
f.20 Manuscript: Chipenda Book, Introduction.
f.21 Final Chapter.
f.22 Manuscript: Chipenda Book, Last Chapter.
f.23 Manuscript: Chipenda Book.
f.24 Manuscript: Chipenda Book.
f.25 Manuscript: Chipenda Book.
f.26 Manuscript: Chipenda Book, Dondi.
f.27 Manuscript: Chipenda Book.

BOX 5
f.1 Research: Chapter 10, “The Church in the Midst of the War.”
f.2 Research: Chapter 11, “The Church and Reform.”
f.3 Research: Chapter 11.
f.4 Research: Chapter 12, “The Church Responds To Independence.”
f.5 Research: Chapter 12.
f.6 Research: Chapter 12.
f.7 Research: Chapter 12.
f.8 Research: Chapter 13, “Confrontation.”
f.9 Research: Chapter 14, “The Church Adapts To Independence.”
f.10 BRAG.
f.11 Research: Brethern.
f.12 Research & Manuscript: Brethern.
f.13 Bunjei.
f.14 Bunjei.
f.15 Cabinda/Diaspora.
f.16 Conselho Angolana de Igrejas Evangélicas (CAIE).
f.17 CAIE.
f.18 CAIE.
f.19 Catholic Missions.
f.20 Conferencia Episcopal de Angola e São Tomé (CEAST).
f.21 CEAST.
f.22 CEAST.
f.23 CEAST.
f.24 Census Info.
f.25 Center of Theological and Cultural Study.
f.26 Center of Theological and Cultural Study.
f.27 Maria Chela Luciano: 1991.

BOX 6
f.1 Chipenda, Trailblazer: Misc.
f.2 Chipenda, Trailblazer: Misc.
f.3 Chipenda Family.
f.4 Christian Unity Commission: 1997-1998.
f.5 Research: The Church in Angola.
f.6 Research: The Church in Angola.
f.7 Research: The Church in Angola.
f.8 Research: The Church Adapts to Independence.
f.9 Church Growth.
f.10 Research: The Church in Angola.
f.11 Research: The Church in Angola.
f.12 Research: The Church in Angola, 1983.
f.13 Research: The Church in Africa.
f.14 Research: The Church in the Bush.
f.15 Research: The Church in Diaspora.
f.16 Research: The Church in the Midst of War.
f.17 The Church of South West Angola.
f.18 The Church of South West Angola.
f.19 Church Organization.
f.20 Church & State.
f.21 CIEAC: Mission Reports.
f.22 CIEAC: Mission Reports.
f.23 Circumcision/ Ovinganji.
f.24 CIEAC.
f.25 CIEAC.
f.26 Commission on Ecumenism.
f.27 Communion.
f.28 Congresso Evangélico.

BOX 7
f.1 Convençao Baptista de Angola.
f.2 Conversion.
f.3 Correspondence To And From Henderson.
f.4 Correspondence To And From Henderson.
f.5 Correspondence To And From Henderson.
f.6 Correspondence To And From Henderson.
f.7 Curriculum Vitae.
f.8 Durham Congregations In Action (DCIA).
f.9 Dondi Institute.
f.10 Camino de Ferrro de Benguela.
f.11 Elon College Viewbook.
f.12 Encyclopedia Angola.
f.13 Eva Chipenda.
f.14 Evaristo Chico Culanda Conversion.
f.15 Extensão Rural.
f.16 Extensão Rural.
f.17 Folk Tales.
f.18 Ngonga.
f.19 Pat Groves.
f.20 Angola Trip: 1976.
f.21 Writings By Henderson: African Marriage and Family Life.
f.22 Writings By Henderson: Prehistoric Religions Paper.
f.23 History of Baptists in Angola, Thesis.
f.24 MA Thesis, Henderson: Portuguese Colonial Policy.
f.25 Doctoral Dissertation: Juel Magnar Arnt Nordby.
f.26 Writing By Muriel (Mrs.) Henderson: Study of Marriage & Divorce in Angola.
f.27 Houghton Library, Harvard.
f.28 Howard University Conference.
f.29 Holy Week.
f.30 II. L. Human Rights.
f.31 Idealogia.
f.32 Igreja Evangélica de Angola (IEA).
f.33 Igreja Congregacional.
f.34 Igreja Congregacional.
f.35 Igreja Congregacional.
f.36 Missão Evangélica do Lobito.
f.37 Igreja Evangélica Baptista do Lobito (IEBL).
f.38 IEBL.
f.39 IEBL.

BOX 8
f.1 Igreja Evangélica Reformada de Angola (IERA).
f.2 Igreja Evangélica Unida de Angola.
f.3 Igreja Lusitana Catolica Apostolica Envangélica.
f.4 Independence: Church & Staff.
f.5 Independence).
f.6 Irmãos Memonitas em Angola.
f.7 Igreja Evangélica Congregacional Em Angola.
f.8 Igreja Evangélica Congregacional Em Angola.
f.9 Incarnation.
f.10 Isaac, E-Research Paper.
f.11 Isaac, Elias-Thesis.
f.12 J.C. Chipenda Foundation.
f.13 Manuscript: J.C. Chipenda Book.
f.14 Manuscript: J.C. Chipenda Book.
f.15 Letters: J.C. Chipenda 1950 trip.
f.16 Letters: J.C. Chipenda Sick, 1958.
f.17 Research: J.C. Chipenda, 1960s.
f.18 J.C. Chipenda Funeral 12/28/1987.
f.19 J.C. Chipenda Writings.
f.20 Tributes to J.C. Chipenda.
f.21 Jehovah’s Witnesses.
f.22 Kina Kajundo.
f.23 Antõnio Kambala.
f.24 Luciano Kassoma.
f.25 Research: Church in the Midst of War.
f.26 Misc. Angola.
f.27 Ardell Henry Webster Letters (copy).
f.28 Kikongo.
f.29 Kimbanguists.
f.30 Kimbanguists.
f.31 Kimbundu.
f.32 Correspondence Between LWH & UCBCUM.
f.33 Letters From Angola.
f.34 LIGA Evangélica Residência.
f.35 Early Letters of Mrs. Minnie Sanders.
f.36 Early Letters of Mrs. Minnie Sanders (copy).
f.37 Letters of Mrs. Minnie Sanders Vol. II (Copy).
f.38 Lobito.
f.39 Lomanda.
f.40 Lunda Kioko.

BOX 9
f.1 Manuscripts: Misc. Authors.
f.2 Manuscripts: Misc. Authors.
f.3 Manuscript: Chipenda Biography.
f.4 Manuscript: Chipenda Biography.
f.5 Manuscript: Galangue & McDowells.
f.6 Methodist Church.
f.7 Methodist Church.
f.8 Methodist Church.
f.9 Manuscript: Christian Missions, Dividing or Uniting Africa?
f.10 Joseph C. Miller Articles.
f.11 Não-Buntu.
f.12 News Centers.
f.13 News Centers.
f.14 North Carolina Council of Churches (NCCC).
f.15 North Carolina Writer’s Network (NCWN).
f.16 Nyameka-Humbe.
f.17 OCWM.
f.18 O Estandarte.
f.19 Open & Affirming.
f.20 Open & Affirming.
f.21 Ordem Hospitalelra.
f.22 Partnership: Angola & Southern Conference.
f.23 Pentecostals.
f.24 Petition to UN, 1952.
f.25 Pictures for “Church in Angola”.
f.26 Pilgrim United Church of Christ (UCC).
f.27 Pilgrim UCC.
f.28 US Politics 1996.
f.29 Portuguese Congregations.
f.30 Angola: Post-Election Violence & Luanda Massacre.
f.31 Prayer.
f.32 Prayers.
f.33 Questionário Linguístico.
f.34 Racism.
f.35 R.C. 1980-1983.
f.36 R.C. 1975-1979.

BOX 10
f.1 R.C. 1984-1986.
f.2 R.C. 1987.
f.3 Relations between Ethnic-Linguistic Groups in Angola (on top)
f.4 Religious Census.
f.5 Research Enablement Program (R.E.P).
f.6 Repatriation.
f.7 Research.
f.8 Research Questionnaires Replies.
f.9 Santos Neves.
f.10 Salvation Army.
f.11 Dr. Jonas Savimbi.
f.12 Scenery.
f.13 Seminario Emanuel Unido.
f.14 Sermons.
f.15 Sermons.
f.16 Sermons.
f.17 Sermons.
f.18 Sermons.
f.19 Sermons.
f.20 Sermons.
f.21 Sermons: 1977-1979.
f.22 Sermon: July 11, 1999.
f.23 Sermons: Beatitudes.
f.24 Sermon: Lord’s Prayer.
f.25 Sermons: SCC.
f.26 Sermons: SCC.
f.27 Sermon: Unity.
f.28 Sociedad Biblica.
f.29 Southern Conference of the United Church of Christ (UCC).
f.30 Southern Conference of the UCC.
f.31 Southern Conference of the UCC.
f.32 Southern Conference/ ECCA Partnership.
f.33 Southern Conference/ ECCA Partnership.
f.34 Southern Conference/ ECCA Partnership.

BOX 11
f.1 São Tomé.
f.2 Selected Writings of Leona Stukey Tucker (copy).
f.3 Southern Conference.
f.4 Southern Conference.
f.5 Special Synod for Africa.
f.6 Students Abroad.
f.7 Research: Teresa Chipenda.
f.8 Tocoistas.
f.9 Tocoistas.
f.10 The Trailblazer Royalties Information.
f.11 Research: Jesse Chipenda Book.
f.12 Pictures for Trailblazer.
f.13 Research: Chipenda Book, work of General Secretary.
f.14 Correspondence: To & From Publishers, L. Henderson.
f.15 Trappists.
f.16 United Church Board for World Ministries (UCBWM).
f.17 UCBWM.
f.18 UCBWM: Angola.
f.19 UCBWM: Letters, Angola.
f.20 UCBWM: Mission.
f.21 United Church of Christ 1994 & 1998 Annual Reports.
f.22 U.I.E.A.
f.23 Umbundu.
f.24 National Union of Angolan Students.
f.25 UNITA and Church.
f.26 UNITA.
f.27 Research: Chipenda Book.
f.28 UCBWM: Living the Convenant Manual .
f.29 University of Florida Lecture.
f.30 Correspondence from Maria Chela.
f.31 Urban/Rural: Church/Mission.
f.32 Research: The War.
f.33 Research: The War.
f.34 Women in Development (WID).
f.35 World Council of Churches (WCC).
f.36 WCC.
f.37 World Religions.
f.38 World Religions.
f.39 Visit to Angola: 1987-1988.

BOX 12

Research Notecards
f.1 Church in Angola.
f.2 ABCFM.
f.3 Trailblazer.

BOX 13
Vols. 1-11 of The Interpreter’s Bible, edited by George Arthur Buttrick et al.

BOX 14
Vol. 12 of The Interpreter’s Bible; Vols. 1-7 of A History of the Expansion of Christianity by Kenneth Scott Latourette; over 20 miscellaneous books.

BOX 15
Miscellaneous books.

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