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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 ...
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.
Missionary discourses of difference: Negotiating otherness in the British Empire, 1840–1900 (2012). Dunch, Ryan. "Beyond cultural imperialism: Cultural theory, Christian missions, and global modernity." History and Theory 41.3 (2002): 301–325. online; Latourette, Kenneth Scott, The Great Century: North Africa and Asia 1800 A.D. to 1914 A.D.
At this time, it was unusual and controversial for American religious organizations to offer people of color missionary opportunities to serve in Africa. [6] At the Palabala station, she taught kindergarten, [7] [3] administered medical treatment, and organized a sewing circle for the women of the village.
The Reverend Edwin William Smith FRAI (1876 – 1957) was a Primitive Methodist missionary/anthropologist and author who was born in South Africa, studied at Elmfield College from 1888, and then worked in Africa. The scholar of African Christian history, Adrian Hastings refers to 1925–1950 as "the age of Edwin Smith". [1]
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.
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 ...
Nona Freeman (July 25, 1916 – December 26, 2009), was an American Oneness Pentecostal preacher; columnist, evangelist, author and missionary to Africa. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Biography