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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. [1]
Samuel H. Moffett - American missionary to Korea and faculty at Princeton Theological Seminary; Lloyd Kim - American missionary to Cambodia and the coordinator of Mission to the World; Harvie M. Conn - American missionary to Korea and a missiologist; John Livingston Nevius - American missionary in China who advocated the Nevius Principle
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.
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 ...
Arnot recovered his health while staying at Bailundu, inland from the coast in Ovimbundu territory, as the guest of some missionaries from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Messengers arrived there from the chief Msidi ( Msiri ), who ruled a large area in what is now Katanga Province in the Democratic Republic of the ...
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 ...
These now form the present Archdioceses of Kampala, Lilongwe, Gitega, and Tabora, as well as the dioceses of Kigoma, and Kalemie-Kirungu. The society is composed of missionary priests and brothers. The members take an oath committing them to labor for the conversion of Africa, in accordance with the constitutions of their society.