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(Dotatrian CDisBiett0
B IRecoro ot /BMeefonarE TKHorfc
XLIV No. 1 JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1946 iwoTehce
(WAR-TIME EDITION)
THE CHURCH ABROAD
Notes from the Mission Board
0\UI notes this month will be concerned mainly, if not entirely,
with East Central Africa. At the end of December Br. and Sr.
P, Schodt arrived in London. Having exhausted all possible
beans of direct transport from Denmark to Tanganyika, including a.
purchased and run by a number of Scandinavian Mission So-
.. as a last desperate resort they have come to £ngland, hoping
it here at last there would be a stepping stone1 to their destinatioi
111 fortunately, the enterprise of the Colonial Office is no match f<
[he zeal of these missionaries, and instead of being a stepping stort
nd is likely to be for some1 time1 a terminus. The period <
pforced waiting is being used in the study of Nvaknsa at tne Scho<
of Oriental and African Studies in London.
With equal suddenness Br. Ibsen and his family and Mr. ( lagne
pith and his family arrived here on 8th January. They had bee
|v.en little time to prepare for their journey. Within five horns <
ing notice of the passage the Ibsens' heavy luggage1 had to be
lacked and delivered at the railway station for dispatch in advance';
within six days they themselves had to be ready \a) follow, with all
fcmestic and administrative affairs of the Mission House and Station
nd Field in trim for handing over to their temporary successors; ar
their son had to be got home to Tabora from his school in Nairobi,
and awkward journey which was accomplished with some1 excil
nicnt and with just one hour to spare before the whole1 party set <
v plane1 for Mombasa to join the ship.
The1 first week of their furlough has been generously given to di
•ussions with the Mission Board. Our conversations have rang<
■ the whole field, its administration, its immediate1 mods, ar
plans for its development. Much time was given to the discussion
n African education, and it was fortunate that we1 had with us both
Br. [bsen, the Superintendent, and Mr. Clague-Srnith, who after a
Big period directly in our service is now temporarily seconded to the
important post of headmaster of the Alliance Teachers' Training
s lined, at Kinampanda. He is also secretary of the Tanganyika
pssionary Education Committee.
The Alliance School has been a joint enterprise of the C.M.S., the
lligustana Mission, and the Moravian Mission. The Augustana
n, however, will withdraw from this experiment at the end of
1946, and from the beginning of 1947 it is planned that the C.M.S
and the Moravian Mission shall jointly undertake the work of two
Object Description
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| Title | Cover |
| Description | Moravian Missions, Vol. 44, No. 01, 1946 January - February |
| Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Periodical |
| Sponsor | Centre for Newfoundland Studies |
| PDF File | (5.68MB) -- http://collections.mun.ca/PDFs/moravianmis/MoravianMissionsVol44No011946JanuaryFebruary.pdf |
| Transcript | (Dotatrian CDisBiett0 B IRecoro ot /BMeefonarE TKHorfc XLIV No. 1 JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1946 iwoTehce (WAR-TIME EDITION) THE CHURCH ABROAD Notes from the Mission Board 0\UI notes this month will be concerned mainly, if not entirely, with East Central Africa. At the end of December Br. and Sr. P, Schodt arrived in London. Having exhausted all possible beans of direct transport from Denmark to Tanganyika, including a. purchased and run by a number of Scandinavian Mission So- .. as a last desperate resort they have come to £ngland, hoping it here at last there would be a stepping stone1 to their destinatioi 111 fortunately, the enterprise of the Colonial Office is no match f< [he zeal of these missionaries, and instead of being a stepping stort nd is likely to be for some1 time1 a terminus. The period < pforced waiting is being used in the study of Nvaknsa at tne Scho< of Oriental and African Studies in London. With equal suddenness Br. Ibsen and his family and Mr. ( lagne pith and his family arrived here on 8th January. They had bee |v.en little time to prepare for their journey. Within five horns < ing notice of the passage the Ibsens' heavy luggage1 had to be lacked and delivered at the railway station for dispatch in advance'; within six days they themselves had to be ready \a) follow, with all fcmestic and administrative affairs of the Mission House and Station nd Field in trim for handing over to their temporary successors; ar their son had to be got home to Tabora from his school in Nairobi, and awkward journey which was accomplished with some1 excil nicnt and with just one hour to spare before the whole1 party set < v plane1 for Mombasa to join the ship. The1 first week of their furlough has been generously given to di •ussions with the Mission Board. Our conversations have rang< ■ the whole field, its administration, its immediate1 mods, ar plans for its development. Much time was given to the discussion n African education, and it was fortunate that we1 had with us both Br. [bsen, the Superintendent, and Mr. Clague-Srnith, who after a Big period directly in our service is now temporarily seconded to the important post of headmaster of the Alliance Teachers' Training s lined, at Kinampanda. He is also secretary of the Tanganyika pssionary Education Committee. The Alliance School has been a joint enterprise of the C.M.S., the lligustana Mission, and the Moravian Mission. The Augustana n, however, will withdraw from this experiment at the end of 1946, and from the beginning of 1947 it is planned that the C.M.S and the Moravian Mission shall jointly undertake the work of two |
