Liv Kyllingstad Godin (5 March 1918 – 2 January 2012) was a Norwegian missionary in

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. She was born in

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. After taking a teacher's education, she worked as a teacher in her native

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from 1966 to 1986. She had already served as a missionary for the

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in the Congo between 1946 and 1966, and returned to the African country in 1987. Serving until 2011, she returned to Norway after breaking her

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, and died in January 2012. In 1999 she was voted "Rogaland Citizen of the Century" in regional newspaper ''

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''. She was also awarded the King's Medal of Merit in silver. After her death, a bridge was named after her in Ålgård. She has also been biographed twice.

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1918 births 2012 deaths People from Gjesdal Norwegian Baptist missionaries Norwegian expatriates in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Recipients of the King's Medal of Merit in silver Baptist missionaries in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Female Christian missionaries 20th-century Baptists {{Norway-reli-bio-stub