Bethel Mission, German East Africa

The Bethel Mission, also known as Berlin III, Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft für Deutsch-Ostafrika (EMDOA),^[1] or Berliner Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft für Ostafrika^[2] 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^[3] 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.^[4]

References

1. 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. Baumgart, Winfried (1975). Der Imperialismus: Idee u. Wirklichkeit d. engl. u. franz. Kolonialexpansion 1880-1914. Steiner. p. 12. ISBN 9783515019699. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
3. "Mission (Ostafrika)". Meyers Konversationslexikon (in German). 1892.
4. Sturmer, Martin (2008). The media history of Tanzania (PDF) (2008 revised ed.). Ndanda Mission Press. p. 38. ISBN 978-9976635928.