Designer Georg Tveitane has made logos for the Mission Archives. Both Norwegian and English versions are available.

The Mission Archives opened an account on Twitter today.

Upon the request from the Mission Archives in 2009, a set of our 98 rolls of microfilms was recevied by the National Archives of Norway, located at Sognsvann in Oslo. The National Archives found the opportunity to digitize the films during January and February 2012, and 13 March 2012 a hard drive with 66000 images was handed over to the Mission Archives by Svein Warberg. He has been responsible for the planning and implementation of the project.

The films contain historic documents related to the work of the Norwegian Mission Society, mainly in Madagascar from 1866 to 1980. About two thirds of the orginial documents are stored at the FLM Archives in Antananarivo, Madagascar. This is the repository of Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy (i.e. the Malagasy Lutheran Church). The remaining originals are found at the Mission Archives, with the exception of a few ministerial books from congregations in the Lutheran Church in South Africa (ELCSA).

Two publications by Nilsen-Lund have now been published in PDF format.

Pier M. Larson, visited the Mission Archives in 1988-1989. He compiled lists and a catalogue of selected holdings of material related to the work of the Norwegian Mission Society in Madagascar 1866-1899. With his permission the lists and catalogue have been scanned and are now available here on our website. See items #27-29 on our presentation of catalogues.

The Kinki Evangelical Lutheran Church (近畿福音ルーテル教会 Kinki Fukuin Rūteru Kyōkai) or KELC will celebrate its 50 year anniversary in the fall of 2011. In connection with this event some photos from the Mission Archives have been scanned and sent to the organizers. The photos are taken from the collection of the Norwegian Mission Society, Department of audio-visual aids.

Halse Misjonsforening began its ministry on All Saints' Sunday in 1878. The association was discontinued in 2010. We have received information about the location of the archival material from the association. See our presentation.

Hallgeir Skretting's research about missionary films published by the Norwegian Mission Society has attracted attention. An article in Norwegian is available in the Oslo based newspaper Vårt Land. The title is "Missionaries were film pioneers".

We have begun the scanning to PDF of the chapters in the two-volume history of the Norwegian Mission Society 1842-1992. The first item is the one about Ethiopia.

Abel Zafianara from Toliara, Madagascar, is enrolled in the PhD program at the University of Stavanger. Source material at the Mission Archives is an important element in his project.

Ivan Rakotovao, a student from Institut Protestant de Théologie, Faculté de Paris, visited the Mission Archives the secound week in February this year. He studied sources at the Mission Archives for his Master of Theology degree.

"The Archives' Day" is a joint event each fall in the Nordic countries, and local and regional programs will take place 13 November. The Mission Archives is a partner of the event in Stavanger.

For his new book "Dhow Cultures and the Indian Ocean: Cosmopolitanism, Commerce, and Islam" the author, Abdul Sherrif, requested an illustration of sorabe from the collection of the Mission Archives.

Rakotonoely Desiré has been a teacher at the agricultural training center at Tombontsoa, near Antsirabe, Madagascar, since 1966. Read more about today's visit.

In her capacity as leader of the Women's Ministry of the Malagasy Lutheran Church (FLM), Ralivao Helene has been invited to Norway.