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===Missions promoter and recruiter===

===Missions promoter and recruiter===

In both her writings and in her multitude of speaking opportunities<ref>"Mission Worker Speaks Sunday" The Evening Independent, April 24, 1937.  Picture of news clip accessible at http://www.auspostalhistory.com/articles/1923.php.</ref><ref>Willard E Cassel & Richard E Taylor,"Edgewood Camp Meeting:Research & Remembrances.  Mentions addresses by Doering.  Accessible at http://www.bfhistory.org/edgewood.htm</ref><ref>"Recent Special Speakers," Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, MBI Monthly, Vol. 22, No. 1, Sept, 1921</ref> Doering constantly pleaded for more missionaries to join the work.  She figured that she was responsible for recruiting over 100 missionaries.<ref>Doering, Alma, Vision Victorious, (Germantown, PA:Office of the Unevangelized, 1940), p.13.</ref> One Mennonite church in Steinbech, OH credits their missionary vision to Doering, then working with Africa Inland Mission, speaking at that church in 1910.<ref>Gospel Tidings, 1987-1990, Vols 27-30, Evangelical Mennonite Brethren Conference, 1987</ref> The Mennonite Central Committee, too, has credited the strong missionary addresses given by her and by Charles E. Hurlburt with their decision to start mission work in Africa.<ref>Cornelius H Wedel, Sketches from Church History for Mennonite Schools, (Newton,KS:Western District Conference of Mennonites of North America, 1920).</ref> Even the time she was forced to spend in Europe bore fruit and yielded new missionary candidates.<ref>William B. Weaver, Thirty-Five Years in Congo (Congo Inland Mission, 1945)</ref>  Unevangelized Tribes Mission, which she helped to found and under which she served many of her years in Congo, had a policy of never taking an offering or directly asking for funds, but Doering certainly did everything under her power to promote the work.  One of her pamphlets lists “what could be done” for certain amounts, and the pamphlets were sold to help support the work.<ref>Doering, Alma, His Way Out, p. 57-58 as one example.</ref>  In one of her books, she wrote accounts of the work geared to whetting interest in missions, appealed for more missionaries, told of creative ways Christians in several countries were supporting missions, and even gave lists of items mission stations could use in their ministries along with directions for packing them.<ref>Doering, Alma, Leopard Spots or God's Masterpiece--Which?, (Cleveland,OH:"Malembe" Publisher, 1916.</ref> She raised over 1.5 million dollars for missions during her lifetime.<ref>Marjorie Creamer, Times Religion Writer, "Mission Provides a Restful Haven," St. Petersburg Times, July 1, 1967, p.45</ref>  She was a frequent missionary speaker.  The newspaper of Hope College in 1922 described her as “full of the message.”<ref>The Anchor, February 15, 1922</ref>

In both her writings and in her multitude of speaking opportunities<ref>"Mission Worker Speaks Sunday" The Evening Independent, April 24, 1937.  Picture of news clip accessible at http://www.auspostalhistory.com/articles/1923.php.</ref><ref>Willard E Cassel & Richard E Taylor,"Edgewood Camp Meeting:Research & Remembrances.  Mentions addresses by Doering.  Accessible at http://www.bfhistory.org/edgewood.htm</ref><ref>"Recent Special Speakers," Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, MBI Monthly, Vol. 22, No. 1, Sept, 1921</ref> Doering constantly pleaded for more missionaries to join the work.  She figured that she was responsible for recruiting over 100 missionaries.<ref>Doering, Alma, Vision Victorious, (Germantown, PA:Office of the Unevangelized, 1940), p.13.</ref> One Mennonite church in Steinbech, OH credits their missionary vision to Doering, then working with Africa Inland Mission, speaking at that church in 1910.<ref>Gospel Tidings, 1987-1990, Vols 27-30, Evangelical Mennonite Brethren Conference, 1987</ref> The Mennonite Central Committee, too, has credited the strong missionary addresses given by her and by Charles E. Hurlburt with their decision to start mission work in Africa.<ref>Cornelius H Wedel, Sketches from Church History for Mennonite Schools, (Newton,KS:Western District Conference of Mennonites of North America, 1920).</ref> Even the time she was forced to spend in Europe bore fruit and yielded new missionary candidates.<ref>William B. Weaver, Thirty-Five Years in Congo (Congo Inland Mission, 1945)</ref>  Unevangelized Tribes Mission, which she helped to found and under which she served many of her years in Congo, had a policy of never taking an offering or directly asking for funds, but Doering certainly did everything under her power to promote the work.  One of her pamphlets lists “what could be done” for certain amounts, and the pamphlets were sold to help support the work.<ref>Doering, Alma, His Way Out, p. 57-58 as one example.</ref>  In one of her books, she wrote accounts of the work geared to whetting interest in missions, appealed for more missionaries, told of creative ways Christians in several countries were supporting missions, and even gave lists of items mission stations could use in their ministries along with directions for packing them.<ref>Doering, Alma, Leopard Spots or God's Masterpiece--Which?, (Cleveland,OH:"Malembe") Publisher, 1916.</ref> She raised over 1.5 million dollars for missions during her lifetime.<ref>Marjorie Creamer, Times Religion Writer, "Mission Provides a Restful Haven," St. Petersburg Times, July 1, 1967, p.45</ref>  She was a frequent missionary speaker.  The newspaper of Hope College in 1922 described her as “full of the message.”<ref>The Anchor, February 15, 1922</ref>

===Missions strategist===

===Missions strategist===