Reverend William J. and Dr. Nina Maynard, Missionaries to Tanganyika
The pastor of the Idaho Falls Baptist Church in 1925, Waldo Maring, put the following announcement in The Idaho Falls Daily Post of April 18 of that year: Attention, Baptists! Rev. W. J. Maynard, who was once a member of the local Baptist church and has served as a missionary in Africa for many years, will speak at the Baptist church tomorrow, probably at the evening service. All members of our church, and other people who are not obligated elsewhere, are urged to hear this man of God, who is sure to bring us a message from “the front trenches.” [1] Who were Rev. W. J. and Nina Maynard? When were they called by the Lord to go to Africa, how long did they serve there and what did they do? William grew up on a plantation in Frederick County, Maryland. [2] William was one of eleven children of Howard G. and Sarah Maynard. [3] He was the second youngest, three years older than his brother George. By 1908, William and his wife Nancy, known as Nina, were l...