Afrika-Missions-Verein
Afrika-Missions-Verein (Africa Missionary Society) had its beginning in 1932 when some Winkler Bible School students and their teacher, G. J. Reimer, met to form an association with interest in a new work begun in the Belgian Congo. The association, that was called “Afrika Missions Kommittee,” changed in 1933 to “Afrika Missions Verein. The primary focus was to support Henry and Anna Bartsch in their work at Bololo with personal contributions and solicitations. When the Conference Mission Board, based in the U.S., refused to take it over despite the appeals of the missionaries, the Society was re-organized and incorporated as a private Canadian Mennonite Brethren mission board to operate the Bololo, Congo, Mission. On 1 January 1944, it turned the work over to the Foreign Mission Board of the Mennonite Brethren Conference. The Bololo Mission had been founded in 1933 as a private faith venture, but when the Conference Mission Board refused to take it over in spite of the appeals of the missionaries, the Society was organized to do so. The Society was managed by a board of directors with the following officers: G. J. Reimer secretary, and H. H. Janzen chairman. Its organ was Der Kleine Afrika-Bote, 1935-1943.
Bibliography
Peters, G. W. The Growth of Foreign Missions in the Mennonite Brethren Church. Hillsboro, KS, 1947: 97-103.
| Author(s) | Harold S Bender |
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| Date Published | 1959 |
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