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==Early Life and Education==

==Early Life and Education==

Doering's 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>

Doering's 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 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 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 [[tribe]]s 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 [[tribe]]s 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>

On her way to her first term in what was then the Congo Free State, she took six months of [[Red Cross]] nurse’s training, especially in tropical diseases, in [[Europe]].<ref>Alma Doering |Unevangelized Tribes Mission, http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Alma-Doering/1519452550 Accessed October 1, 2015</ref>

On her way to her first term in what was then the Congo Free State, she took six months of [[Red Cross]] nurse's training, especially in tropical diseases, in [[Europe]].<ref>Alma Doering |Unevangelized Tribes Mission, http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Alma-Doering/1519452550 Accessed October 1, 2015</ref>

==Missionary career==

==Missionary career==

===Early Ministry Before Congo===

===Early Ministry Before Congo===

Doering began her missionary work in 1898 in Chicago<ref>Estes, Steven R. "Doering, Alma (1878-1959)" Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1990. Web. 9 Oct 2015 http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Doering,_Alma(1878-1959)&oldid=123729.</ref>  in the slums of the south side.<ref>Alma Doering | Unevangelized Tribes Mission | Zoominfo.com  http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Alma-Doering/1519452550  Accessed October 15, 2015)</ref>

Doering began her missionary work in 1898 in Chicago<ref>Estes, Steven R. "Doering, Alma (1878-1959)" Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1990. Web. 9 Oct 2015 http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Doering,_Alma(1878-1959)&oldid=123729.</ref>  in the slums of the south side.<ref>Alma Doering | Unevangelized Tribes Mission | Zoominfo.com  http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Alma-Doering/1519452550  (Accessed October 15, 2015)</ref>

She soon continued on as one of the first missionaries to [[Native American]] reservations and lumber camps in northern [[Wisconsin]] & Upper [[Michigan]], serving as a deaconess from Bethany Deaconess Home in Brooklyn, NY,<ref>Estes, Steven R. "Doering, Alma (1878-1959)," Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Onlinfe, 1990.  Web. 0 October 2015</ref> and working with Dr. & Mrs. J. O. Buswell, Sr.<ref>Doering, Alma, Vision Victorious, (Germantown, PA:Unevangelized Tribes Mission), p.16.</ref>

She soon continued on as one of the first missionaries to [[Native American]] reservations and lumber camps in northern [[Wisconsin]] & Upper [[Michigan]], serving as a deaconess from Bethany Deaconess Home in Brooklyn, NY,<ref>Estes, Steven R. "Doering, Alma (1878-1959)," Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Onlinfe, 1990.  Web. 0 October 2015</ref> and working with Dr. & Mrs. J. O. Buswell, Sr.<ref>Doering, Alma, Vision Victorious, (Germantown, PA:Unevangelized Tribes Mission), p.16.</ref>

===Pioneer work in the Congo Free State===

===Pioneer work in the Congo Free State===

Although she also worked briefly in [[Kenya]], most of Doering’s missionary work was done in what was then the Congo Free State (now Democratic Republic of Congo), from 1901 to 1938.  Working first under the Swedish Mission Society,<ref>Cornelius H Wedel, Late Professor at Bethel College, Sketches from Church History for Mennonite Schools, (Newton,KS:Western District Conference of Mennonites of North America, 1920).</ref> then under Congo Inland Mission<ref>"Stepping Stones--The Journey of the Mennonite Church in [[Congo]].  http://www.mennonitemission.het/SiteCollectionDocuments/Stories/BeyondOurselves/Cono/DL.BYO.Congo.SteppingStones.pdf</ref> and finally under Unevangelized Tribes Mission which she helped to found, Doering walked into interior areas where no roads yet existed and served many tribes, surveying areas unexplored by westerners, opened new mission stations, and endured countless hardships such as [[malaria]], [[blackwater fever]], and lost of all her goods three times due to fire.  Early in Doering’s missionary career, she received the [[bantu]] name “Malembe,” meaning “peace.”<ref>Doering, Alma, His Way Out (Germantown,Pa:Office of the Unevangelized, 1940), p. 57.</ref> Missionaries to the Democratic Republic of Congo recall that she is still remembered there as somewhat of a legend.<ref>Interview with Lorella Rouster, former missionary to Congo, Every Child Ministries, Sept. 5, 2015</ref>  She also had a profound influence on other missionaries, such as William Sheppard, an [[African-American]] missionary doctor.<ref>"Historical Riddle", Beyond Ourselves, Nov. 2012, "Congo--100 Years" http://www.mennonitemission.net/Stories/BeyondOurselves/Congo/Pages/HistoricalRiddle  Accessed October 8, 2015</ref> Missionary Joanne Kroeker traveled with Doering on her last missionary voyage.  She wrote that on "November 4, 1938, I boarded the S.S. Elizabethville with Miss Doering, Miss Runkelberger, Dr. and Mrs. Laban Smith with their children Junior and Phyllis..."<ref>Joanne Kroeker, Shiny Shoes on Dusty Paths Vol 1, Destiny Image Publishers, October 1, 1995)</ref>  Dunkelberger had previously traveled with Doering and written about their experiences.<ref>Stella C. Dunkelberger, Crossing Africa in a Missionary Way, The Mission Offices, 1935).</ref>

Although she also worked briefly in [[Kenya]], most of Doering's missionary work was done in what was then the Congo Free State (now Democratic Republic of Congo), from 1901 to 1938.  Working first under the Swedish Mission Society,<ref>Cornelius H Wedel, Late Professor at Bethel College, Sketches from Church History for Mennonite Schools, (Newton,KS:Western District Conference of Mennonites of North America, 1920).</ref> then under Congo Inland Mission<ref>"Stepping Stones--The Journey of the Mennonite Church in [[Congo]].  http://www.mennonitemission.het/SiteCollectionDocuments/Stories/BeyondOurselves/Cono/DL.BYO.Congo.SteppingStones.pdf</ref> and finally under Unevangelized Tribes Mission which she helped to found, Doering walked into interior areas where no roads yet existed and served many tribes, surveying areas unexplored by westerners, opened new mission stations, and endured countless hardships such as [[malaria]], [[blackwater fever]], and lost of all her goods three times due to fire.  Early in Doering's missionary career, she received the [[bantu]] name “Malembe,” meaning “peace.”<ref>Doering, Alma, His Way Out (Germantown,Pa:Office of the Unevangelized, 1940), p. 57.</ref> Missionaries to the Democratic Republic of Congo recall that she is still remembered there as somewhat of a legend.<ref>Interview with Lorella Rouster, former missionary to Congo, Every Child Ministries, Sept. 5, 2015</ref>  She also had a profound influence on other missionaries, such as William Sheppard, an [[African-American]] missionary doctor.<ref>"Historical Riddle", Beyond Ourselves, Nov. 2012, "Congo--100 Years" http://www.mennonitemission.net/Stories/BeyondOurselves/Congo/Pages/HistoricalRiddle  Accessed October 8, 2015</ref> Missionary Joanne Kroeker traveled with Doering on her last missionary voyage.  She wrote that on "November 4, 1938, I boarded the S.S. Elizabethville with Miss Doering, Miss Runkelberger, Dr. and Mrs. Laban Smith with their children Junior and Phyllis..."<ref>Joanne Kroeker, Shiny Shoes on Dusty Paths Vol 1, Destiny Image Publishers, October 1, 1995)</ref>  Dunkelberger had previously traveled with Doering and written about their experiences.<ref>Stella C. Dunkelberger, Crossing Africa in a Missionary Way, The Mission Offices, 1935).</ref>

===Founding of Unevangelized Tribes Mission===

===Founding of Unevangelized Tribes Mission===