Anderer Ereignisse und Attribute:

• Departure: Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Referenznummer: 38513
• Arrival: 14 Jul 1928, New York, New York, New York, USA
• Aufenthaltsort: 1944, Mankato, Blue Earth, Minnesota, USA
• Departure: 11 Jul 1952, New York, New York, New York, USA

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Paul was born on August 26, 1926 at the Aba mission station in northern Belgian Congo. His parents, Leonard and Daphne Buyse were missionaries with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) in the Belgian Congo at the time. He had two older siblings; a sister named Helen Jean and a brother named John. He also had two younger siblings; a brother named Robert and a sister named Marian.

During his childhood in Belgian Congo, Paul and the family lived on mission stations at Kasengu, Blukwa and Rethy. He attended grade school at Rethy Academy. He started high school at the Westervelt Home in Columbia, South Carolina and eventually graduated from Garden City High School in Garden City, Minnesota in 1945. He started his college classes at Northwestern Bible College in St. Paul, Minnesota then he transferred to Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois and graduated in 1948.

Paul met Katherine Louco from Camden, New Jersey while attending Moody and they were married shortly after Paul graduated from Moody. They had four children; three boys and a girl. Tim the oldest was born in 1949 in Harrison, Arkansas. The other three children were born in the Belgian Congo. Janie was born in 1955 at Oicha, went to heaven in 1956 and is buried at Oicha. Larry was born in 1956 at Oicha. Philip was born in 1960 at Rethy.

Upon graduation from Moody, Paul and Katherine worked with the North Arkansas Gospel Mission in north central Arkansas for about two years. They joined AIM towards the end of that time. They moved to Minnesota in 1950 to start raising support and preparing to go to Africa. Paul served as the pastor of a church in Garden City, Minnesota during that year.

They left for Africa to serve with AIM in the Belgian Congo in 1952. They worked in Africa for the next thirty seven years serving the Lord at the small remote stations at Biasiko and Lalia, intermediate size stations at Mwenda and Blukwa, the large stations at Oicha and Rethy as well as a short time at Kijabi, Kenya during one of the evacuations from the newly independent Congo.

Paul went to Africa to be a preacher and an evangelist which he loved doing and was committed to doing. It was also soon apparent that he had other useful talents. One of his talents was the ability to build things. He was asked to build in excess of thirty construction projects from as far south as Biasiko to a village north of Rethy and even at Kijabi. Projects ranged in scope and size from infrastructures like bridges, water systems and electric plants to churches, schools, dispensaries and houses for both African co-workers as well as missionaries. Another of his talents was his ability to make eye glasses to help people see. He was able to train several African personnel in optometry. Together they set up three permanent eye clinics and a mobile eye clinic. Working as a team they were able help thousands of people see better. That work is still bearing fruit to this day.

Paul & Katherine retired from working in Africa in 1989. Paul spent the next four years working in the accounting office at the AIM headquarters in Pearl River, New York. They moved in 1992 to the AIM retirement center in Minneola, Florida. Even though he was retired, Paul served as chaplain on the campus for the next ten years.

Paul’s suffering with congestive heart failure began about 2012 and slowly sapped away his energy and his mind until God called home on June 7, 2017.

He is survived by Katherine, his brother Robert, his sister Marian Botha, his three sons Timothy (Cynthia), Larry (Mimi) and Philip (Susan), nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

The family requests no flowers be sent.

A “Paul A. Buyse” memorial fund will be set up at AIM and will be designated to help the people of Congo.

Paul heiratete Katherine LOUCO in 1948 in New Jersey, USA. Katherine wurde geboren in 1924; gestorben am 25 Okt 2018 in Minneola, Lake, Florida, USA; wurde beigesetzt in Minneola Cemetery, Minneola, Lake, Florida, USA. [Familienblatt] [Familientafel]

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Anderer Ereignisse und Attribute:

• Referenznummer: 38518

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