Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church. Board of World Missions.

The Augustana Synod sent missionaries to northern Tanganyika in 1922, in response to an appeal from the Leipzig Mission, whose work had been curtailed by WWI. This work came under the Africa Committee of the newly formed Board of Foreign Missions in 1923, and a constitution was adopted for the Tanganyika Augustana Lutheran Mission. Membership in this body consisted of the Tanganyika missionaries. In 1955 the name of the Board of Foreign Missions was changed to the Board of World Missions. In 1963 the work was absorbed by the Lutheran Church in America under its Board of World Missions, later called the Division of World Missions and Ecumenism.

When the Leipzig missionaries returned, the Augustana staff revived an earlier Leipzig work in Iramba in 1927 and laid the foundation of today's Central Synod. When WWII again removed the German missionaries, Augustana took over the work of the Berlin, Bethel, and Leipzig missions. Following this war Augustana strengthened its Central Synod work.

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