Portrait of Evelyn Moss. IMB Photo
Evelyn Krause Moss, an International Mission Board missionary emeritus who shared the gospel in Zambia, Malawi, Kenya and Zimbabwe, died Feb. 3, 2025. She was 93.
Evelyn was born Sep. 30, 1931, in Spindale, North Carolina, to the late Roy Krause and Alma Sparks Krause. She graduated from Alexander High School in Union Mills, North Carolina, and received the Associate of Arts from Gardner-Webb College (now Gardner-Webb University) in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, and the Bachelor of Arts from Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina.
At the age of 9, she gave her heart to Christ and the following summer felt God calling her to be a missionary. During her first year of college, she met Zeb Moss. They were married in 1952, the summer following their graduation. Within two weeks of their wedding, Zeb entered seminary, and she began teaching elementary school. During this time, she was involved in various missions activities through church and seminary. While seeking appointment she wrote, “I continued to feel that God had a place for me in the work of missions, but I was indefinite as to what the work would be.”
After seminary graduation, they moved to Alabama for one year before Zeb was called to his first full-time pastorate in North Carolina in 1956. A year later, while attending Foreign Missions Week at Ridgecrest conference center, they witnessed new missionaries receive appointment to the field. She wrote, “It was here that I really saw the need for personnel on the mission fields and became aware that I could be the answer for a small part of the need. After much prayer, Zeb and I agreed that we would pursue this new challenge until the doors closed.”
In 1959, the International Mission Board appointed Zeb and Evelyn missionaries to Zambia. They also served in Malawi, Kenya and Zimbabwe. During almost four decades of missionary service, Evelyn used her gifts and skills to disciple young women, teach Sunday School, hold cooking and music classes and assist with the creation of the Bible Way Correspondence School. She also led Bible studies for the wives of diplomats and discipled nurses and local students.
Evelyn was recently preceded in death by her husband of 72 years, Zeb Moss.
She is survived by her daughters Dr. Lynn Moss and Suzanne Moss Mullen (Dr. Patrick Mullen), and two grandchildren.
A celebration of life service was held Feb. 8 at Aberdeen First Baptist Church in North Carolina, with burial in Bethesda Cemetery, Aberdeen.
Read an obituary here.