First native conference, Ikau, October 1931, Congo, 1931

Black and white lantern slide showing a group of male evangelists in Ikau in 1931. Ikau was one of the first mission stations to be set up by the Congo Balolo Mission, and is in what is now the Equateur province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The evangelists all wear Western dress of trousers and shirts, with some wearing ties and jackets. One man on the front row seems to be wearing a longer light jacket, which could be a doctor's coat. This slide comes from a collection generated by missionaries working for the Congo Balolo Mission, a mission begun in 1889 under the supervision of the East London Training Institute for Home and Foreign Missions that developed into the interdenominational evangelical mission Regions Beyond Missionary Union after 1900.