Peruvian Inland Mission missionaries, Peru, ca. 1947

Black and white lantern slides showing a group of four missionaries from the Peruvian Inland Mission. Mary Taverner stands to the left of the image, wearing a blouse and a light shirt. Mary Taverner was a nurse who joined the Peruvian Inland Mission in 1935. She went on to head the Lamas Bible School. The founder of the Peruvian Inland Mission, Annie Georgina Soper (1883-1979) wears a patterned dress and a wide brimmed hat. The gentleman is Reverend Edward James Ball. The lady who stands next to Reverend Ball in the dark skirt and jumper with an elaborate hat may be Mrs Eileen Ball, nee Davis. The group stands in front of thatched building, in front of which stands a motor car. This slide comes from a collection created by the Peruvian Inland Mission, an evangelical mission started in 1930 by Miss Annie G Soper in northeast Peru, which was administered by the evangelical interdenominational mission, Regions Beyond Missionary Union from 1948.