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Kuitse studied anthropology and theology in preparation for mission work, eventually earning a doctorate in theology from the University of Amsterdam. In 1952 he went to Indonesia, where he taught at the theological school of the Mennonite Church in Java. | Kuitse studied anthropology and theology in preparation for mission work, eventually earning a doctorate in theology from the University of Amsterdam. In 1952 he went to Indonesia, where he taught at the theological school of the Mennonite Church in Java. | ||
He and Juliette Sebus were married in 1960 by proxy while he was in Indonesia and she was working as a nurse in the Netherlands. When efforts failed to get an entry visa for her to join him in Indonesia, he returned to Europe, and they had a church wedding in Rome. | |||
They were invited to Ghana to serve in a project related to understanding and witness to Islam. | |||
Revision as of 14:41, 4 May 2011
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2007 Feb 26 p. 3
Birth date: 1925
text of obituary:
By Mary E. Klassen
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary
ELKHART, Ind. — Roelf S. Kuitse Sr., Dutch Mennonite missiion worker, professor and pastor who taught at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, died Jan. 24 in the Netherlands. He was 82.
Kuitse was professor of missions and director of the Mission Training Center at AMBS from 1978 to 1991, alternating with Robert Ramseyer in serving in this position and doing mission work.
Kuitse studied anthropology and theology in preparation for mission work, eventually earning a doctorate in theology from the University of Amsterdam. In 1952 he went to Indonesia, where he taught at the theological school of the Mennonite Church in Java.
He and Juliette Sebus were married in 1960 by proxy while he was in Indonesia and she was working as a nurse in the Netherlands. When efforts failed to get an entry visa for her to join him in Indonesia, he returned to Europe, and they had a church wedding in Rome.
They were invited to Ghana to serve in a project related to understanding and witness to Islam.