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John McKendree Springer (7 September 1873 – 2 December 1963) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and The Methodist Church, elected in 1936.He was also a pioneering missionary instrumental in developing Methodism on the continent of Africa.
The mission almost dissolved in the next year when most of the workers either died or resigned, but Peter Cameron Scott's vision of the network of mission stations extending to the centre of Africa has ultimately been fulfilled with churches established throughout East Africa, and in most other countries of the continent.
William Henry Sheppard (March 8, 1865 – November 25, 1927) was one of the earliest African Americans to become a missionary for the Presbyterian Church.He spent 20 years in Africa, primarily in and around the Congo Free State, and is best known for his efforts to publicize the atrocities committed against the Kuba and other Congolese peoples by King Leopold II's Force Publique.
This is a list of Christian missions in Africa. 4africa; Africa Inland Mission; Algiers Mission Band; Anglican Frontier Missions; Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa; Basel Mission; Church Mission Society; Cowley Fathers; International Missionaries for Christ; London Missionary Society; Mission Africa; Mission Aviation Fellowship ...
Thomas Jefferson Bowen (1814–1875) was an American expatriate Baptist missionary who spent considerable time of his missionary activities in Ijaye, Ogbomosho and a few other towns within the present Oyo State. His work established the foundation of the Baptist mission in Nigeria. [1]
Background: In January, 1806, the long Orange River which traverses Namibia and South Africa was first crossed by missionaries of the London Missionary Society, for the purpose of doing missionary work and preaching the Gospel among the inhabitants of a wild and desolate region, often subjected to drought and subsequent food shortages ...
At the time, there were more women than men serving as Assemblies of God missionaries in Africa. [7] Like many missionaries of Pentecostal Christianity, her credentials were established by her calling as a believer more so than by her formal education. [1] Peoples Shirer expanded the Assemblies of God missionary presence in Africa. She helped ...
The Universities' Mission to Central Africa (c.1857 - 1965) was a missionary society established by members of the Anglican Church within the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, and Dublin. It was firmly in the Anglo-Catholic tradition of the Church, and the first to devolve authority to a bishop in the field rather than to a home ...