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Liumba Hill Mission Station
Samuel M Konigmacher established a school at Liumba Hill, Barotseland in 1928. Konigmacher had worked at Rusangu Mission and left to open Musofu Mission Station before opening Liumba Hill.
In 1935, a small dispensary was added and Konigmacher oversaw seven village schools.
Mwami Mission Station
The Mwami Mission Station was purchased by the Seventh-Day Adventists in 1925. Located 30km southeast of Chipata in the Eastern Province of Zambia and just 8km west of the Malawi-Zambia border, the mission was created to serve the people across that region. In 1927, a hospital with established at the station.
In 1962, the Mwami School of Nursing was established. It continues to operate today, training both young men and women to serve as qualified Zambian Enrolled Nurses across the country. An eye surgery centre at the mission saw its first patients in 1985, a service that is still provided to the community.
Mwami Hospital
In 1927, Dr E G Marcus established a rudimentary hospital at Mwami Mission Station. When Dr Marcus arrived, there was no infrastructure and many of the native Zambians wanted little to do with mission considering it ‘white man’s magic’. Attitudes changed when a small boy who was severely burnt was brought to the hospital and recovered. After this, attitudes towards the hospital started to change.
Initially, the hospital included a special treatment centre for those suffering from leprosy. After the first three patients arrived, another fifty arrived nearly 3 month later. Services included removing teeth and within six months of operation, Dr Marcus removed the first cataract.
Money was provided by The British Empire Leprosy Relief Association to erect buildings and huts, with some money also being used to equip the dispensary and ward. Mrs Jewell acted as a nurse.
The hospital continues today.
1913-2004
Frances “Lois” Jessop was born in Chadwell, England March 1913. She came to the United States in 1929. After graduating from the Chicago Evangelistic Institute she enrolled at Asbury College, but interrupted her studies to service as a missionary with the Methodist Episcopal Church’s Old Umtali Mission in Southern Rhodesia beginning 1937. There she taught in the Bible Institute, edited a journal for the mission and assisted the mission director. After three years she returned to Asbury to finish her degree.
In 1941, she married Maurice E. Persons whom she had met as a fellow student at Chicago Evangelistic Institute and who had also been in Southern Rhodesia. A year later, the Persons returned to Africa as Methodist missionaries where Mr. Persons served in a number of capacities between 1947 and 1968 in Liberia and the Congo.
Mrs. Person served as a high school teacher, conducted classes for the development of African women and taught Swahili to new missionaries. They return returned to the Congo in 1977 where they served until retirement in Phoenix, Arizona in 1980. Mrs. Person died June 2003. Mr. Persons died 2004.
Ndola
| No.s | Description | Earliest PMK Date |
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| N/A | The Cathedral Church of the nativity... |
The Boys’ Brigade (BB) is an international interdenominational Christian youth organisation, conceived by Sir William Alexander Smith and Chester to combine drill and fun activities with Christian values. Following its inception in Glasgow in 1883 The Boys’ Brigade quickly spread across the United Kingdom, becoming a worldwide organisation by the early 1890s. As of 2018, there were 750,000 Boys’ Brigade members in 60 countries.
The Boys’ Brigade has branches in Malawi (est.1910), Zambia (est.1957) and Zimbabwe (est.1948).
St. Anthony’s Mission (Zambia)
St Anthony’s Catholic mission was originally run by Italians, who laid a water system throughout the village, fed by two large water tanks, planted a vineyard, planted trees for lumber, and ran a rather well equipped mission hospital. They had, at one time, a landing strip, hydroelectric power and an x-ray machine. The government took this over at some point and appropriated most of the equipment for use elsewhere. The Italians, according to locals, ripped up the vineyards and much of the pipes for the water system before they left.
The mission is currently run by a Zambian priest and several sisters. They are heavily cooperative with the hospital, which has been resupplied to a lesser degree, and serves as a main clinic for the area. They provide weekly health services to various outreach stations including child health (weighing, vaccinating, deworming), giving health talks, handing out condoms and other things.
St Anthony’s is also one of several purchasing points after the harvest, where maize is purchased from the village farmers for cash and piled for transport to processing centres. The school is rather large for a rural school and has been involved in international penpal programmes, as well as a carpentry program aided by the US Peace Corps and the International and Luanshya Rotary Club.
St Anthony’s has a small market on most days, where vegetables (tomatoes, cabbage and onions) can be bought. The mission runs a store with some other amenities, but this is not open all the time.
10-13 September 1988
In 1988, Pope John Paul II made his fourth visit to Africa and his 39th apostolic journey. The Pope made a 10-day tour that was scheduled to touch down in every country that bordered South Africa while pointedly avoiding the country itself.
His first stop was Zimbabwe. On the 10 September he visited Harare where he met with followers at the Borrowdale Racecourse. On the 12 September he visited Bulawayo. While in Zimbabwe he endorsed economic sanctions against the Pretoria Government when a bill to impose them was facing strong Republican opposition in the United States Congress.
He left on 13 Sept where he travelled to Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, with a detour through South Africa.
Dominican Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
St Dominic de Guzman (c1173 – 1221) founded the Dominican Order (also known as the “Order of Preachers” – OP) in the early Middle Ages. Women were apart of the Order from the beginning. A convent of contemplative nuns was established in Prouille, near Toulouse, France in 1206. Later, a number of “houses of women” attached to the Order were setup through out Europe, including the community of St Ursula in Augsburg, Germany.
The Dominican Sisters in their current form, however, are largely a product of the Nineteenth Century. As a result of increasing missionary fervor, monasteries were asked to send groups of women to found schools and medical clinics around the world. In response, seven Dominican sisters from St Ursula’s Convent led by Mother Tiefenböck arrived in South Africa in 1877 to found the Convent of the Sacred Heart in King Williams Town (KWT).
Mary Anne Cosgrave, taking the name of Mary Patrick at final profession, was an early member of the community, coming to South Africa from Ireland in 1880 at age 17. Nine years later Sister Patrick was asked to lead of party of five KWT Dominican sisters in support of the “Pioneer Column” then being assembled for the occupation of Mashonaland.
Reaching Salisbury in July 1891, the sisters took charge of the rudimentary hospital that had been set up. In response to pleas from the growing population of settlers, in October 1892 they established the first school (convent) in Salisbury. Mother Patrick and the Dominican sisters were called upon again to provide nursing care when, in 1896, Southern Rhodesia was engulfed in the Ndebele and Shona uprisings.
By 1898, the number of sisters in Rhodesia under Mother Patrick had risen to approximately 30, with communities in Salisbury, Fort Victoria, Bulawayo and at Chishawasha Mission. In that year the Rhodesian sisters were separated from their “Mother House” at King Williams Town to form their own independent community. Father Sykes, Superior of the Zambezi Mission (responsible for Rhodesia) had come to the conclusion that “this would enable them to adapt themselves better to local conditions … and in this way ensure and promote the growth and development of the Church in Rhodesia.” The decision was made, however, without consulting the sisters themselves, who were then forced to make the difficult decision of remaining in Rhodesia or returning to their “Mother House.” Nineteen sisters decided to remain. Mother Patrick was unanimously elected Prioress of the new community in 1899. Unfortunately, due to ill health, she died soon after.
The Dominican sisters faced adversity during the “Bush War”/”War of liberation.” On February 6, 1977, four sisters were murdered along with three Jesuits as Musami Mission. Another sister was killed in 1979 at Driefontein Mission. The name of the community was revised in 1984 to the present name of “Dominican Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.”
Today, the Dominican Missionary Sisters operate a number of schools and other facilities in Zimbabwe, including the Dominican convents in Harare and Bulawayo, St Dominic at Chishawasha, and Emerald Hill; and hospitals at St Theresa, St Joseph and Regina Coeli Mission. Locations outside of Zimbabwe include England (Greenwich and Gossops Green, Crawley), Germany (Kloster Strahlfeld), Colombia (Bogotá), and Kenya (St Mulumba Hospital and Juja).
