REV. DAY CARPER
Asheville - Rev. Day Carper died October 7, 2009, (3 weeks short of his 97th birthday) at the Solace Center (Hospice) in Asheville, NC. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Bessie Stollenwerck Carper, and two young daughters. He was born in Lewisburg, W.VA, and graduated w/honors from Hampden Sydney College in VA. Be became assistant principal and teacher in a JR. High School in Axton, VA. He attended Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, VA. and served as superintendent/teacher, and later the pastor, of an African-American church.
In 1940, he was appointed by the Board of World Missions of the Presbyterian Church U.S. as an Evangelistic Missionary to the (former) Belgian Congo. This was the fulfillment of not only a dream, but also a call which had come to him at the age of 12 years.
Prior to leaving, he was pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Suffolk, VA.
Because of the submarine menace in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II, it was necessary to sail for Africa through the Panama Canal, west to California and on to Borneo, arriving at the mission post by way of South Africa 72 days after leaving N.Y. As a missionary he traveled to villages w/African ministers and elders, trained church officers, organized churches, was engaged in the teaching programs of the seminary and Bible Schools for both ordained and lay leadership for the Presbyterian church in Congo.
He oversaw the work of African carpenters, brick makers, and masons, and assisted with plumbing, electrical work, and car maintenance though not trained for such.
After furlough, in July of 1960, he served briefly as associate minister at First Presbyterian Church in Sarasota, FL, while waiting for a visa to return to the chaotic Congo after their independence from Belgium.
In October he was allowed to return to Congo without his family and remained for 14 months. During that time he worked ecumenically in trucking food and supplies to refugees. This was followed by reestablishing schools and churches disrupted by fighting and bloodshed from opposing tribes.
He was asked by the African church to assist another missionary in the compiling of a Bible Concordance in Tshiluba a Bantu language of that area.
Due to the ill health of the other missionary, it was necessary for Day to do the major portion of the 45,000 word Concordance, and this, without the help of modern technology such as a computer or word processor. The finished work was published by the British Bible Society.
After 32 years with the Board of World Missions, he and his family returned to the United States permanently and he took a year of post graduate work at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA. Prior to his retirement, he served five and a half years as Associate Minister at First Presbyterian Church in Hickory, NC.
During his retirement, he and his wife spent two, 3-month periods as Volunteers in Mission at the Presbyterian/Episcopal Mission Hospital in Leogane, Haiti.
He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Blanche Torrey Wiggs Carper and their five children: Frances Carper Lovell and her husband, Eugene, of Maryville, TN; Stephen Carper of Lake Charles, LA; Janet Carper Jones and her husband Bob, of Matthews, NC; Elizabeth Carper Iverson and her husband Bill, of Brentwood, TN; and Edith Carper Covert and her husband, Joe, of Athens, GA; nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
A Celebration of Life will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, October 31, 2009 in the chapel at the Givens Estates United Methodist Retirement Center in Asheville.
In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to the Givens Estates Residents' Assistance Fund, 2360 Sweeten Creek Rd, Asheville, NC 28803; Moringa Tree Project-Congo, Medical Benevolence Foundation (in partnership w/the PCUSA), 3100 S. Gessner, Ste 210, Houston, Texas 77063; or
John Keever Solace Center, 21 Belvedere Road, Asheville, NC 28803.
Citizen-Times - Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina - October 11, 2009.
Asheville - Rev. Day Carper died October 7, 2009, (3 weeks short of his 97th birthday) at the Solace Center (Hospice) in Asheville, NC. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Bessie Stollenwerck Carper, and two young daughters. He was born in Lewisburg, W.VA, and graduated w/honors from Hampden Sydney College in VA. Be became assistant principal and teacher in a JR. High School in Axton, VA. He attended Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, VA. and served as superintendent/teacher, and later the pastor, of an African-American church.
In 1940, he was appointed by the Board of World Missions of the Presbyterian Church U.S. as an Evangelistic Missionary to the (former) Belgian Congo. This was the fulfillment of not only a dream, but also a call which had come to him at the age of 12 years.
Prior to leaving, he was pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Suffolk, VA.
Because of the submarine menace in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II, it was necessary to sail for Africa through the Panama Canal, west to California and on to Borneo, arriving at the mission post by way of South Africa 72 days after leaving N.Y. As a missionary he traveled to villages w/African ministers and elders, trained church officers, organized churches, was engaged in the teaching programs of the seminary and Bible Schools for both ordained and lay leadership for the Presbyterian church in Congo.
He oversaw the work of African carpenters, brick makers, and masons, and assisted with plumbing, electrical work, and car maintenance though not trained for such.
After furlough, in July of 1960, he served briefly as associate minister at First Presbyterian Church in Sarasota, FL, while waiting for a visa to return to the chaotic Congo after their independence from Belgium.
In October he was allowed to return to Congo without his family and remained for 14 months. During that time he worked ecumenically in trucking food and supplies to refugees. This was followed by reestablishing schools and churches disrupted by fighting and bloodshed from opposing tribes.
He was asked by the African church to assist another missionary in the compiling of a Bible Concordance in Tshiluba a Bantu language of that area.
Due to the ill health of the other missionary, it was necessary for Day to do the major portion of the 45,000 word Concordance, and this, without the help of modern technology such as a computer or word processor. The finished work was published by the British Bible Society.
After 32 years with the Board of World Missions, he and his family returned to the United States permanently and he took a year of post graduate work at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA. Prior to his retirement, he served five and a half years as Associate Minister at First Presbyterian Church in Hickory, NC.
During his retirement, he and his wife spent two, 3-month periods as Volunteers in Mission at the Presbyterian/Episcopal Mission Hospital in Leogane, Haiti.
He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Blanche Torrey Wiggs Carper and their five children: Frances Carper Lovell and her husband, Eugene, of Maryville, TN; Stephen Carper of Lake Charles, LA; Janet Carper Jones and her husband Bob, of Matthews, NC; Elizabeth Carper Iverson and her husband Bill, of Brentwood, TN; and Edith Carper Covert and her husband, Joe, of Athens, GA; nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
A Celebration of Life will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, October 31, 2009 in the chapel at the Givens Estates United Methodist Retirement Center in Asheville.
In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to the Givens Estates Residents' Assistance Fund, 2360 Sweeten Creek Rd, Asheville, NC 28803; Moringa Tree Project-Congo, Medical Benevolence Foundation (in partnership w/the PCUSA), 3100 S. Gessner, Ste 210, Houston, Texas 77063; or
John Keever Solace Center, 21 Belvedere Road, Asheville, NC 28803.
Citizen-Times - Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina - October 11, 2009.
REV. DAY CARPER
Asheville - Rev. Day Carper died October 7, 2009, (3 weeks short of his 97th birthday) at the Solace Center (Hospice) in Asheville, NC. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Bessie Stollenwerck Carper, and two young daughters. He was born in Lewisburg, W.VA, and graduated w/honors from Hampden Sydney College in VA. Be became assistant principal and teacher in a JR. High School in Axton, VA. He attended Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, VA. and served as superintendent/teacher, and later the pastor, of an African-American church.
In 1940, he was appointed by the Board of World Missions of the Presbyterian Church U.S. as an Evangelistic Missionary to the (former) Belgian Congo. This was the fulfillment of not only a dream, but also a call which had come to him at the age of 12 years.
Prior to leaving, he was pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Suffolk, VA.
Because of the submarine menace in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II, it was necessary to sail for Africa through the Panama Canal, west to California and on to Borneo, arriving at the mission post by way of South Africa 72 days after leaving N.Y. As a missionary he traveled to villages w/African ministers and elders, trained church officers, organized churches, was engaged in the teaching programs of the seminary and Bible Schools for both ordained and lay leadership for the Presbyterian church in Congo.
He oversaw the work of African carpenters, brick makers, and masons, and assisted with plumbing, electrical work, and car maintenance though not trained for such.
After furlough, in July of 1960, he served briefly as associate minister at First Presbyterian Church in Sarasota, FL, while waiting for a visa to return to the chaotic Congo after their independence from Belgium.
In October he was allowed to return to Congo without his family and remained for 14 months. During that time he worked ecumenically in trucking food and supplies to refugees. This was followed by reestablishing schools and churches disrupted by fighting and bloodshed from opposing tribes.
He was asked by the African church to assist another missionary in the compiling of a Bible Concordance in Tshiluba a Bantu language of that area.
Due to the ill health of the other missionary, it was necessary for Day to do the major portion of the 45,000 word Concordance, and this, without the help of modern technology such as a computer or word processor. The finished work was published by the British Bible Society.
After 32 years with the Board of World Missions, he and his family returned to the United States permanently and he took a year of post graduate work at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA. Prior to his retirement, he served five and a half years as Associate Minister at First Presbyterian Church in Hickory, NC.
During his retirement, he and his wife spent two, 3-month periods as Volunteers in Mission at the Presbyterian/Episcopal Mission Hospital in Leogane, Haiti.
He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Blanche Torrey Wiggs Carper and their five children: Frances Carper Lovell and her husband, Eugene, of Maryville, TN; Stephen Carper of Lake Charles, LA; Janet Carper Jones and her husband Bob, of Matthews, NC; Elizabeth Carper Iverson and her husband Bill, of Brentwood, TN; and Edith Carper Covert and her husband, Joe, of Athens, GA; nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
A Celebration of Life will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, October 31, 2009 in the chapel at the Givens Estates United Methodist Retirement Center in Asheville.
In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to the Givens Estates Residents' Assistance Fund, 2360 Sweeten Creek Rd, Asheville, NC 28803; Moringa Tree Project-Congo, Medical Benevolence Foundation (in partnership w/the PCUSA), 3100 S. Gessner, Ste 210, Houston, Texas 77063; or
John Keever Solace Center, 21 Belvedere Road, Asheville, NC 28803.
Citizen-Times - Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina - October 11, 2009.
Asheville - Rev. Day Carper died October 7, 2009, (3 weeks short of his 97th birthday) at the Solace Center (Hospice) in Asheville, NC. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Bessie Stollenwerck Carper, and two young daughters. He was born in Lewisburg, W.VA, and graduated w/honors from Hampden Sydney College in VA. Be became assistant principal and teacher in a JR. High School in Axton, VA. He attended Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, VA. and served as superintendent/teacher, and later the pastor, of an African-American church.
In 1940, he was appointed by the Board of World Missions of the Presbyterian Church U.S. as an Evangelistic Missionary to the (former) Belgian Congo. This was the fulfillment of not only a dream, but also a call which had come to him at the age of 12 years.
Prior to leaving, he was pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Suffolk, VA.
Because of the submarine menace in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II, it was necessary to sail for Africa through the Panama Canal, west to California and on to Borneo, arriving at the mission post by way of South Africa 72 days after leaving N.Y. As a missionary he traveled to villages w/African ministers and elders, trained church officers, organized churches, was engaged in the teaching programs of the seminary and Bible Schools for both ordained and lay leadership for the Presbyterian church in Congo.
He oversaw the work of African carpenters, brick makers, and masons, and assisted with plumbing, electrical work, and car maintenance though not trained for such.
After furlough, in July of 1960, he served briefly as associate minister at First Presbyterian Church in Sarasota, FL, while waiting for a visa to return to the chaotic Congo after their independence from Belgium.
In October he was allowed to return to Congo without his family and remained for 14 months. During that time he worked ecumenically in trucking food and supplies to refugees. This was followed by reestablishing schools and churches disrupted by fighting and bloodshed from opposing tribes.
He was asked by the African church to assist another missionary in the compiling of a Bible Concordance in Tshiluba a Bantu language of that area.
Due to the ill health of the other missionary, it was necessary for Day to do the major portion of the 45,000 word Concordance, and this, without the help of modern technology such as a computer or word processor. The finished work was published by the British Bible Society.
After 32 years with the Board of World Missions, he and his family returned to the United States permanently and he took a year of post graduate work at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA. Prior to his retirement, he served five and a half years as Associate Minister at First Presbyterian Church in Hickory, NC.
During his retirement, he and his wife spent two, 3-month periods as Volunteers in Mission at the Presbyterian/Episcopal Mission Hospital in Leogane, Haiti.
He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Blanche Torrey Wiggs Carper and their five children: Frances Carper Lovell and her husband, Eugene, of Maryville, TN; Stephen Carper of Lake Charles, LA; Janet Carper Jones and her husband Bob, of Matthews, NC; Elizabeth Carper Iverson and her husband Bill, of Brentwood, TN; and Edith Carper Covert and her husband, Joe, of Athens, GA; nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
A Celebration of Life will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, October 31, 2009 in the chapel at the Givens Estates United Methodist Retirement Center in Asheville.
In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to the Givens Estates Residents' Assistance Fund, 2360 Sweeten Creek Rd, Asheville, NC 28803; Moringa Tree Project-Congo, Medical Benevolence Foundation (in partnership w/the PCUSA), 3100 S. Gessner, Ste 210, Houston, Texas 77063; or
John Keever Solace Center, 21 Belvedere Road, Asheville, NC 28803.
Citizen-Times - Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina - October 11, 2009.
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