Hiebert, John Nicholas Christian (1904-1956)
John Nicholas Christian "J. N. C." Hiebert and his wife, Anna (Jungas) Hiebert, served as missionaries in India with the Mennonite Brethren Mission, 1929-1942, 1947-1952. Born in Mountain Lake, Minnesota to Mennonite Brethren pastor Nicholas N. Hiebert and Susie (Wiebe) Hiebert, John studied at the St. Paul Bible Institute, Christian Missionary and Alliance Bible School at Nyack, New York, Tabor College (BA), Willamette University, and the University of Southern California (MA degree in South Asian history).
In his early years, J. N. C., gave himself to evangelism in both North America and India. In his later life he felt the call to develop leaders for the church. Under his leadership the Mahbubnagar High School was the first of the Mennonite Brethren schools in India to gain government accreditation. During the war years (1943-1947), he served as the principal of Immanuel Academy, Reedley, California, and guided it to accreditation and relocation. In 1952, he returned to the United States to serve as the president of Tabor College (1952-1953).
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Esau, Mrs. H. T. First Sixty Years of M.B. Missions. Hillsboro: Mennonite Brethren Publishing House 1954: 116-17.
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Janzen, A. E. Missionay Album ed. Hillsboro, KS (1951): 26.
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Peters, G. W. The Growth of Foreign Missions in the Mennonite Brethren Church. 1949.
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Correspondence in the Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies (Fresno, California, USA).
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Scottdale, Pennsylvania, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 5, p. 370. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.
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