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Subtitle: The first 40 Years
When the reports on the rediscovery of Mt. Kilimanjaro by the German missionary Johannes Rebmann and the notable diaries of David Livingstone, a Scottish missionary, reached the Christians in Europe, a keen desire was aroused, especially among the Lutherans in Germany, to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ to a largely unknown people in Africa. After his unjustified dismissal and his rehabilitation in 1937, Paul Fleisch became one of the conventuals and in 1950 the prior of the monastery at Loccum. Already in 1936 he had been elected to a seat in the newly formed "Lutheran Council" together with Bishop D. Meiser from Munich, D. Hans Lilje, the bishop of Hanover, and Dr. Breit, member of the High Consistory at Munich. Thus, he was one of the top-ranking Lutherans in Germany during his time. We felt that this extraordinary book on the history of the Lutheran Mission, which he wrote, should become known to the African theologians, because it is a meticulously compiled indepth resource as the first chapter of a future history textbook of the Lutheran Church in Northern Tanzania. The subsequent chapters - the African side -are, as far as we know, in the process of being written by the Africans themselves. In order to assist, Fleisch's book will be an invaluable treasure in their pursuit to find their own identity as a church. Actually this book describes the historical role which the former Hersbruck Mission Society and the Leipzig Mission played. Influenced by the two World Wars and the rapid changes that followed, the Lutheran Mission underwent a thorough reassessment. As in other parts of the world the term "mission field" was abolished among the sending agencies. During the war the nations were compelled to join ranks and work side by side in harmony giving assistance wherever necessary. This resulted in the constitution of the Lutheran Coordination Service (LCS) in Tanzania after the war, which operates under the auspices of the Lutheran World Federation. From Chapter I: Taking the First Steps In 1881-1882 the question was put to the Leipzig Mission board whether a new evangelistic drive into East Africa should be started. East and Central Africa were just in the process of being made accessible. Trade and colonial policy were tied up in an international competition trying to penetrate these countries. Should the Lutheran Mission leave the field to those forces? If the Germans were to be a part in this competition did not the German Lutheran Mission also have a task to fulfill? Especially since the prominent Chancellor, Bismarck, of the newly established German Reich (empire) was taking cautious steps to implement his colonial policies, the question, as to whether the German Christians were under Obligation to become involved in the missionary outreach in the German colonies, became all the more urgent. Was it not the duty of German Christians to carry out mission work in German colonies? Was it not a real "calling" in the Lutheran sense? German missionaries, who were serving with the British Mission Societies, had penetrated deep into East Africa. They had been the first Europeans to discover the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro with its shining glaciers. Had not the time now come for the German missionaries to continue the work started by Krapf and Rebmann when they served with the Church Missionary Society (CMS)? The latter had been commissioned by the CMS to work in East Africa. However, it was ready to give serious consideration to Africa. In the meantime, the idea of establishing a Kanaresen mission project in India had to be given up. If they really wanted to start a new mission, then preference should be given to East Africa. The missionaries working in India regarded it as their duty to impress upon "the home board to take every precaution not to neglect our current work in the Tamul province nor jeopardize the process". In the meantime the Bavarians had taken charge of the matter and on 8 February, 1886 notified the Leipzig Mission that they had founded their own mission society for East Africa. [...] |