Tina Warkentin Bohn, 95, whose diverse mission assignments spanned four continents and 38 years, died April 11 in Goshen, Ind.

From 1955 to 1993, Bohn served in California, Europe, Africa and Papua New Guinea with Mennonite Central Committee and Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission.

Her longest assignment was from 1978 to 1993 in Lesotho, where she and her husband, John, provided biblical and community development training for a ministry center that sought to lessen the need for men to leave their families to work in South African mines.

The Bohns traveled to villages, incorporating development seminars into the Bible-teaching ministry of African-Initiated Churches. They taught nutrition, composting and food preservation, sanitation, ropemaking and simple bookkeeping. They sold Bibles, hymnals, Christian literature, seeds and fruit trees at minimal cost. She organized women’s sewing circles.

In 1981, the Bohns moved into a rondavel, a round house about 15 feet in diameter with a thatch roof and a dirt floor. A visitor reported they would turn in different directions and say, “We are now in the kitchen, now the study, now the bedroom . . .”

She was born Dec. 19, 1928, in Saskatchewan, to Helen and Peter Warkentin, who had fled violence in a Mennonite colony in present-day Ukraine the year before.

From 1955 to 1957, she served with MCC in California, working with families of workers from Mexico. Continuing with MCC in Europe, she managed homes for refugees in Austria and Germany and then houses for MCC Pax men in Austria and Greece.

In 1960, MCC asked her to become the hostess for a guest house for church workers in Kinshasa, Congo. After two years, AIMM asked her to help with the administration of a 300-bed hospital at the Kimpese mission station. She served there for 12 years before returning to Kinshasa to work in the AIMM office.

In 1975 she married John Bohn, whom she first met while serving in Germany. They worked in Papua New Guinea for three years, he with agricultural projects and she in the office of Mission Aviation Fellowship.

In 1978, the Bohns began their ministry in Lesotho, where they continued until retiring to Goshen in 1993.

She was a member of Eighth Street Mennonite Church in Goshen, where a memorial service was held April 27.

She is survived by her husband, sisters Gertrude Warkentin and Marie Houston and brother John Warkentin.