Mid Africa Ministry 1938-1960
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Mid Africa Ministry
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The Mid-Africa Ministry, originally named Ruanda Mission (CMS), began as part of the Church Missionary Society [CMS] and its two pioneer missionary worked for the CMS before going to Rwanda [Ruanda]. Dr. Leonard Sharp and Dr. A. C. Stanley Smith were convinced of God's call to work in Rwanda and offered to CMS for that work. They were sent at first to Mengo Hospital in Uganda, but in December 1916 made an exploratory visit to Rwanda. In 1917 the CMS Uganda missionary com...
Church Missionary Society.
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The Church Missionary Society was founded in 1799 by a small group of laymen and clergy of the Church of England. It was originally named the Society for Missions to Africa and the East. Its purpose was to enable the Church to send missionaries to Africa and other heathen areas. Henry M. Stanley, following his discovery of the missionary explorer, David Livingstone, was instrumental in opening the Uganda Mission. His famous letter, published in the Daily Telegraph in 1875, prompted a contributio...
