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Mission Agencies Come to Africa
AD 1790–1900
AD 1790
A
AD 1800
B
C AD 1819. The Sisters of
St. Joseph of Cluny arrive in
Senegal. By 1950 there are at least
fourteen women’s congregations
at work in West Africa.
D AD 1830. France invades Algiers
and begins expanding the French
colonial empire.
AD 1810
Missionaries from the Paris Evangelical
Mission Soicety (E).
A Moravian Bell (A).
A AD 1793. Moravians achieve
official legal status in South Africa
after being active in evangelism
among the local Khoi-San people
since 1737. Their mission expands
throughout much of South Africa
in the following decades.
AD 1820
AD 1830
AD 1840
C
D
E
F G
H
François Coillard
AD 1850
I
AD 1860
J K
L M
N
François
Coillard
The Church Missionary Society Seal
(B).
O
P
B AD 1799. The Church
Q
Missionary Society (CMS) is
AD 1880
founded in London. The CMS
R
enters West Africa in 1804, Egypt
in 1825, Ethiopia in 1827, and
AD 1890
East Africa in 1844. Under second
general secretary Henry Venn, the
S
CMS develops its famous “Three
T
Self” policy to plant churches that
AD 1900
are self-governing, self-supporting,
and self-propagating.
AD 1870
Adolph Mabille
E AD 1833. The Paris Evangelical
Mission Society begins work
among the Basotho people of
Southern Africa. Outstanding missionaries, such as Adolphe Mabille
and François Coillard, establish a
strong church in the mountainous
kingdom of Basutoland (modernday Lesotho).
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