Memoirs of Gerrit D. Van Peursem, Part II

Authors

Gerrit D. Van Peurseum

Files

Description

Gerrit D. Van Peursem (1880-1979) was born on a farm near Maurice, Iowa. He graduated from Northwestern Classical Academy of Orange City, Iowa (1903), attended Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa for one year, and graduated from Hope College, Holland, Michigan (1907) and the Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey (1910). He then joined the Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church in America and served the Arabian Mission.

His handwritten memoirs continue by describing his family's missionary work in the Holy Land. Van Peurseum recounts travels, the birth and death of children, and furloughs back to Maurice, Iowa. He relays various stories about Islamic converts to Christianity and his encounters with the King of Oman.

Publication Date

6-21-1962

City

Somerville, New Jersey

Keywords

Reformed Church Missions, Missionary, Oman, Muscat, Christian converts, Islam, Sultan of Oman, Saudi Arabia, Muilenburg, premillennialism, postmillennialism, Sioux County

Recommended Citation

Van Peurseum, Gerrit D., "Memoirs of Gerrit D. Van Peursem, Part II" (1962). Memoirs. 10.
https://nwcommons.nwciowa.edu/regionalhistory_memoirs/10