Witness and Effort

Around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Berlin M ission Society (BMS) started activities in the Morogoro area . Weitnauer's work explores how the first missionaries lived on the mission stations and understood their "witness and e ffort", their different roles as pastors, landlords and ofte n also landowners. In Tanganyika, the missionaries were conf ronted with the German colonial power which brought them in to confusion about their role. Many missionaries ignored the d. And yet the local church grew mainly through the increas ing activity of local Christians, especially after 1945. The missionaries had to give up responsibility and to allow the local population to go ahead independently and to develop t heir own "witness and effort".