Evangelical Missionary Society for German East Africa

The Evangelical Missionary Society for German East Africa (German: Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft für Deutsch-Ostafrika), also known as 'Berlin III' or the Bethel Mission[1] was a Berlin-based Protestant mission initiated by Karl Peters in German East Africa with a uniert religious doctrine.[1] From its founding in 1886[2] until 1891 the mission was limited to the Indian Ocean coast; it was then led by Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, Senior of the Bethel Institution.[1]

In October 1905 the society created Mkoma Mbuli (The Storyteller), a Shambala monthly, which probably continued publication until 1914.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Fiedler, Klaus (1996). Christianity and African Culture: Conservative German Protestant Missionaries in Tanzania, 1900-1940. BRILL. pp. 63–73. ISBN 90-04-05243-7.
  2. ↑ "Mission (Ostafrika)". Meyers Konversationslexikon (in German). 1892.
  3. ↑ Sturmer, Martin (2008). The media history of Tanzania (PDF) (2008 revised ed.). Ndanda Mission Press. p. 38. ISBN 9976635923.


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