Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came to see Lenshina and be baptized. Even in the rainy season, they were coming by the hundreds. The pennies they bring her have mounted into a sizable treasury presided over by her fanatical husband Petrus, who, some say, is the power behind Lenshina. And the Presbyterian mission of Lubwa, the oldest in Northern Rhodesia, is on its last legs...
...natives were more impressed than ever. When she commanded pilgrims to bring" their charms and symbols of witchcraft and leave them at shrines built for the purpose in her village, there were soon high piles of teeth, fur scraps, beads and symbolic axes for killing devils. Nervously, the Presbyterian mission sent word to the home office that a new threat to Christianity, "the Cult of Alice," had appeared in Northern Rhodesia...
...What are you going to do?" asks the Rev. John Eraser, 41, of Glasgow, who recently took over the Lubwa mission. "We must get out more into the field and teach the Bible. For ten years we've been too busy keeping the mission going to get out and do field work. Lenshina just stepped into a natural opportunity, I suppose...
Aside from her effect on the mission, authorities are most concerned lest Lenshina be taken over by the anti-white movement in Africa. Though she has given no indication that she will, this is a constant possibility; many mission-educated Africans among her followers have been changing their names from Christopher or John back to Shamwa or Mkoshi...
...date, 14 such general missions have gone out to member countries. And to insure that the reports are not merely filed and forgotten, the Bank insists that the country asking such help pay half the cost of the mission. In several cases, the bank has actually taken a hand in helping run a member nation's economy. At Nicaragua's request, the World Bank stationed two of its experts in the capital for a year to advise Dictator Anastasio Somoza, now keeps one man on duty permanently...