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Miss Virginia Landis was born July 19,1927 in Peasant Hill Ohio to the late Omer & Alice Landis. She was the second born of six children, attending Newton Township grade and high school for 12 years. Virginia went on to attend Nurses Training at Springfield City Hospital, Springfield, Ohio, where she received her R.N. degree.
After receiving God's call to the mission field she attended Moody Bible Institute, going from there to Anvers, Belgium to study French and Tropical Medicine. Later, Miss Landis returned from the mission field and went back to Moody Bible Institute to receive her Bachelor of Science degree in nursing. Virginia also graduated from the Frontier School of Midwifery in Hyden, Kentucky to supplement her nurse training.
Virginia served with the Africa Inland Mission (AIM) for twenty years. Approximately fourteen of those years were in the Belgium Congo of Africa. The name of that republic was later changed to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa, and then to Zaire. During her time on the mission field she had to evacuate from her station four times, once in the 1964 rebellion where many lost their lives. After evacuation from the Congo, she worked in Kenya, East Africa.
While in Kenya, Virginia taught the Physical education classes to the senior high girls at Kijabe, in missionary school for children. She was the school nurse and Miss Landis also worked at the medical center at Kijabe.
After 20 years with AIM, Miss Landis came home to the United States and began work with CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF EASTERN PA, INC. She attended the Child Evangelism Fellowship Institute in Muskegon, Michigan, working as a Summer Missionary in 1955.
As a Field Representative of CEF of E. PA, INC. she has served in nine different counties for extended periods of time, filling in as county director, doing visitation, raising support, and overseeing administrative details until new workers were trained and established in ministry.
After many years in the field, Miss Landis is presently serving the Lord at the State Headquarters in Harrisburg, PA where she is teaching Good News Clubs, assisting with financial administration of the ministry, and visiting ministry supporters.
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