Abstract: Abstract This study draws upon two sources of primary data: self-administered questionnaires completed by 129 Mission members and open-ended interviews conducted with 107 Mission members. These offer complementary ways of looking at the origins of evangelical missionaries. The questionnaire survey, on the one hand, provides uniform background information including sociodemographic characteristics, the occurrence of “separating” events in childhood (such as migration, going away to boarding school, parental death), and religious milestone experiences (such as conversion and calling). Responses were given by 75 women and 54 men between the ages of 24 and 64 who began working as HCJB missionaries in Ecuador between the years 1941 and 1983. When summarized statistically, they yield one sort of answer to the question of where the people that I studied “came from.”

Abstract: Abstract The creation of the Palestine Orchestra was a milestone in the history of music in Palestine which was effected with dramatic international reverberations. The new orchestra revolutionized the musical scene, provided the infrastructure for professional musical education and for local composition, and marked the culmination of the process of the professional stratification of music institutions in Palestine. It soon set a model of institutional tenacity and stability in troubled times.1