Missionary Work In Central Africa
Year entered by bmm 1920 past current work.
Missionary work in central africa. Livingstone s reports in britain. The history of baptist mid missions work in the car begins with the history of the mission itself. A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to promote their faith or perform ministries of service such as education literacy social justice health care and economic development. The word mission originates from 1598 when the jesuits sent members abroad derived from the latin missionem nom.
It includes a description of the exploratory work of david livingstone native religions and the progress of missionary work in the nineteenth century. In 1850 us baptist missionaries arrived in nigeria to work among the yoruba people. This book attempts to provide a history of africa from earliest times until the end of the nineteenth century. This group pioneered missionary work in nyasaland.
The role of missionaries the legacy of christian missionaries in africa lives up to this day. The red marking which varies on. Missio meaning act of sending or mittere meaning to send. It attracted a lot support from the anglican church.
The yoruba embraced the gospel and planted baptist churches throughout western africa as they traveled for trade. These maps which are all alike show the various mission stations where servants of christ named in the appendix b are working. In southern africa most of the leaders who participated in the fight for independence were educated by missionaries or schools built by missionaries. During colonialism in south africa they defied the government and educated black students at a time when the colonial governments forbade this practice.
Missionaries were among the earliest explorers of central and southern africa. 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 committee. Missionary work in central and southern africa began in the early 19th century before europeans had colonized those regions. The london missionary society sent david livingstone to south africa in 1840 where he became one of the first europeans to traverse the.
William taylor 1821 1902 was missionary bishop of africa from 1884 to 1896. More than 80 years of missionary activity by baptist and evangelical missionaries has resulted however in a large number of churches and a great influence in society. Livingstone s expedition for example the university mission in central africa umca was formed as a result of dr.