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Peter Hartwig (1778, Prussia – 1815, Sierra Leone) was a German seminarian and medical missionary, who worked on behalf of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in West Africa. Hartwig was one of the first two missionaries sent to Africa by CMS.
A watchnight service at a Lutheran Christian church on New Year's Eve (2014) A watchnight service (also called Watchnight Mass) is a late-night Christian church service.In many different Christian traditions, such as those of Moravians, Methodists, Catholics, Lutherans, Anglicans, Baptists, Adventists and Reformed Christians, watchnight services are held late on New Year's Eve, which is the ...
In 1848, when Bowen began to map out his vision of missionary activities in the interior of West Africa, the SBC was already involved in missionary work in China, India and in Liberia but the existing mission in Liberia was not promising, the Triennial Convention's missionary effort on the West African coast sent fifteen white missionaries but ...
Renner and Peter Hartwig, both German Lutherans, were the first CMS missionaries in Africa, recruited to a mission in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1804. [2] In 1808, Renner founded a station among the Susu people, attempted to learn the Susu language, and worked with his wife Elizabeth to run schools on the Rio Pongas in Sierra Leone.
John Mackenzie (30 August 1835 – 23 March 1899) was a Scottish Christian missionary who worked in Southern Africa, and who argued for the rights of the native Africans. [1] Mackenzie was born in Knockando, Moray, Scotland in 1835.
For earlier history see Catholic Church in Kongo.. The church's penetration of the country at large is a product of the colonial era. [4] The Belgian colonial state authorized and subsidized the predominantly Belgian Catholic missions to establish schools and hospitals throughout the colony; the church's function from the perspective of the state was to accomplish Belgium's "civilizing mission ...
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 ...
From 1846 to 1867, he based his mission in Abeokuta. Thomas Birch Freeman was actually the first European to enter Abeokuta. He arrived there on 11 December 1843. When he returned to Badagry on 24 December, he met Rev. Townsend and they celebrated Christmas Day together sharing the Gospel in Badagry. According to Ajisafe, he was the first ...