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==Early Life and Education==

==Early Life and Education==

'''Alma Doering''' was born in Chicago to German Lutheran immigrants.  Her father, William,<ref>Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online, Doering, Alma http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Doering, Alma  Accessed October 20, 2015.</ref>  was a Civil War veteran and her paternal grandfather one of the early settlers of Chicago.<ref>Alma Doering | Unevangelized Tribes Mission | Zoominfo.com. http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Alma-Doering/1519452500  Accessed October 27, 2015.</ref>  Her mother, born in Germany, lost both parents by age eleven.  Her faith was ridiculed and restricted by the foster family who took her in, and she eventually immigrated to America in search of religious freedom.  According to Doering’s writings, her mother was very influential in her  life.<ref>Doering, Alma, "Busy Mothers as God's Prayer Warriors", The Latter Rain Evangel, July, 1914.  Accessed at https://ifphc.org on October 6, 2015.</ref>  At least three children were born to the family, but two died in childhood within a single year.<ref>Doering, Alma, "Busy Mothers as God's Prayer Warriors", The Latter Rain Evangel, July, 1914. Accessed at https.://ifphc.org on October 6, 2015</ref>  Alma’s brother, Edward Doering, who lived in Cleveland, Ohio, supported her missionary work.<ref>Doering, Alma, Leopard Spots or God's Masterpiece--Which? (Cleveland, OH:"Malembe" Publisher, Evangel Publishing House, 1916), p.10</ref>

'''Alma Doering''' was born in 1878 in Chicago to German Lutheran immigrants.  Her father, William,<ref>Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online, Doering, Alma http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Doering, Alma  Accessed October 20, 2015.</ref>  was a Civil War veteran and her paternal grandfather one of the early settlers of Chicago.<ref>Alma Doering | Unevangelized Tribes Mission | Zoominfo.com. http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Alma-Doering/1519452500  Accessed October 27, 2015.</ref>  Her mother, born in Germany, lost both parents by age eleven.  Her faith was ridiculed and restricted by the foster family who took her in, and she eventually immigrated to America in search of religious freedom.  According to Doering’s writings, her mother was very influential in her  life.<ref>Doering, Alma, "Busy Mothers as God's Prayer Warriors", The Latter Rain Evangel, July, 1914.  Accessed at https://ifphc.org on October 6, 2015.</ref>  At least three children were born to the family, but two died in childhood within a single year.<ref>Doering, Alma, "Busy Mothers as God's Prayer Warriors", The Latter Rain Evangel, July, 1914. Accessed at https.://ifphc.org on October 6, 2015</ref>  Alma’s brother, Edward Doering, who lived in Cleveland, Ohio, supported her missionary work.<ref>Doering, Alma, Leopard Spots or God's Masterpiece--Which? (Cleveland, OH:"Malembe" Publisher, Evangel Publishing House, 1916), p.10</ref>

Alma decided to make her mother’s Christian faith her own at age nine.  She began teaching Sunday school at age thirteen, and by sixteen was teaching several classes in two Sunday schools.<ref>Alma Doering | Unevangelized Tribes Mission, http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Alma-Doering/1519452550  Accessed October 8, 2015</ref>

Alma came to personal salvation at age nine.  She began teaching Sunday school at age thirteen, and by sixteen was teaching several classes in two Sunday schools.<ref>Alma Doering | Unevangelized Tribes Mission, http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Alma-Doering/1519452550  Accessed October 8, 2015</ref>

Alma attended and graduated from the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago.  While she was there, at age 18, she felt a call to full time service, and specifically to what she described as “the unevangelized tribes of Africa.”<ref>Doering, Alma, Vision Victorious,(Germantown, PA:Office of the Unevangelized, 1940),  p. 16</ref>  Following this, she began speaking of her faith to everyone she met everywhere, and turned over her jewelry and other perceived luxuries to a mission society for sale.<ref>Doering, Alma, Vision Victorious, (Germantown, PA:Office of the Unevangelized, 1940), p. 40.</ref>

Alma attended and graduated from the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago.  While she was there, at age 18, she felt a call to full time service, and specifically to what she described as “the unevangelized tribes of Africa.”<ref>Doering, Alma, Vision Victorious,(Germantown, PA:Office of the Unevangelized, 1940),  p. 16</ref>  Following this, she began speaking of her faith to everyone she met everywhere, and turned over her jewelry and other perceived luxuries to a mission society for sale.<ref>Doering, Alma, Vision Victorious, (Germantown, PA:Office of the Unevangelized, 1940), p. 40.</ref>