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Note 458 by UMNS on Nov. 14, 1997 at 16:14 Eastern (1977 characters).

ITLE: Missionary Papers Sought

CONTACT: Linda Bloom						   646(10-71B){458}
		New York (212) 870-3803				 Nov. 14, 1997

Mission executive seeks
information on Simons

			by United Methodist News Service

	Information about the Rev. George Albert Simons, a pioneer Methodist
missionary in Russia, is being sought for a research project.
	The Rev. S.T. Kimbrough, Jr., associate general secretary for mission
evangelism, United Methodist Board of Global Ministries, would like to be
contacted by friends, acquaintances or family of Simons or by anyone who has
knowledge of his personal papers.
	Simons was assigned to St. Petersburg in 1907 by the Methodist Episcopal
Church. He later became superintendent of the Russian mission of the church
and, with the Rev. Hjalmar Salmi and others, organized congregations in the
area. A building purchased at 58 Bolshoi Prospect in St. Petersburg became the
Church of Christ the Savior Methodist Episcopal Church.
	In 1918, the U.S. government forced all Americans to leave Russia. Simons was
assigned then to direct Methodist European Relief and assisted people in
Russia and the surrounding countries, particularly during the famine of 1920.
He continued his Russian mission work from a new headquarters in Riga, Latvia,
where he also helped establish a theological school.
	Simons published books and poetry and established and edited the periodical
Khristianiski Pobornik, published first in St. Petersburg and then in Riga.
	He died Aug. 2, 1952. The funeral was held at Christ Methodist Church in
Glendale, N.Y., the church he served for the last 19 years of his life.
	Kimbrough -- the author of Methodism in Russian and the Baltic States:
History and Renewal -- said he also would welcome any information on Salmi,
who served in Russia and among Russian-speaking residents in Duluth, Minn.
	He can be contacted at 475 Riverside Dr., Room 360, New York, NY 10115. The
telephone: (212) 870-3914 or fax: (212) 870-3748.
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