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KLAUS FIEDLER
FAITH MISSIONS
Klaus Fiedler, born 1942 in Germany, is a
missiologist and mission historian connectng
the conntnents of Europe and Africa. He
studied initally at the Baptst Seminary in
Hamburg, but received his most formatve INTERDENOMINATIONAL
educaton at Makerere University in
Kampala, Uganda, and he received Doctor's
degrees from Dar-es-Salaam and Heidelberg
Universites. He served for seven years as a missionary FAITH MISSIONSwith the Kanisa la Biblia in South Tanzania, then 16 years in
Germany as pastor, teacher and editor. In 1992 he started
teaching at the University of Malawi in Zomba, since 2008
he is Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Mzuzu IN AFRICA
University and Postgraduate Coordinator.
It is not the European and American churches that evangelized
Africa, but the mission societes. The missions from the Great
Awakening like London Missionary Society and Church
Missionary Society, or the Holy Ghost Fathers and the White
Fathers, which started the process of Sub-Saharan Africa
becoming a Christan contnent, are well known and their
work is beter documented. Less known and less documented
are the interdenominatonal faith missions, beginning in 1873,
aiming to reach the stll unreached areas of Africa: North
Africa, the Sudan Belt and the Congo Basin. So there were
missions like Africa Inland Mission or Sudan Interior Mission,
which gave birth to some of the big churches like ECWA in
Nigeria and Africa Inland Church in Kenya.
KLAUS FIEDLER
This book is part of Mzuni Press
which offers a range of books on
religion, culture and society
from MalawiINTERDENOMINATIONAL
FAITH MISSIONS
IN AFRICA
Copyright 2018 Klaus Fiedler
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a
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Mzuni Press
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ISBN 978-99960-60-46-5
eISBN 978-99960-60-45-8
Mzuni Books no. 34
This book is based on "Story of Faith Missions", published by Regnum (Oxford),
1994 and 1995
Index and editorial assistance: Marvin Esau and Daniel Neumann
Cover: Daniel Neumann
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Printed in Malawi by Baptist Publications, P.O.B. 444, Lilongwe
Interdenominational
Faith Missions
in Africa
History and Ecclesiology
Klaus Fiedler
Mzuzu
2018
To my teachers Martin Metzger, John Mbiti, Canon Hutchinson, Louise
Pirouet, Isariah Kimambo
4 Contents
Chapter 1:
A Plurality of Missions: The Faith Missions in the Context of the
Protestant Missionary Movement 6
Chapter 2:
A New Missionary Movement: The Early History of the Faith Missions 31
Chapter 3:
Not an Easy Endeavour: Faith Missions in Africa 78
Chapter 4:
Born in Revival: Faith Missions and the 1859/1873 Revival 129
Chapter 5:
Reaching the Unreached: Faith Mission Geography 147
Chapter 6:
Interdenominational Missions and Denominational Churches: The
Concept of Individual Unity 199
Chapter 7:
Power for Service: The Faith Missions and the Holiness Movement 247
Chapter 8:
The Rigorous Christian Life: Faith Missions and African Holiness 291
Chapter 9:
A Propelling Vision: The Faith Missions and the Prophetic Movement 320
Chapter 10:
Using [No Longer?] Neglected Forces: Women 343
Chapter 11:
Continuity and Change – Faith Mission Churches in Africa 374
Chapter 12:
A Vision Taken Up: African Faith Missions 426
Chapter 13:
Sufficient Challenges 457
5 Foreword
This book is the revised edition of the earlier book: "Story of Faith Missions"
(1994) or "The Story of Faith Missions from Hudson Taylor to Present Day
Africa" (1995, both Regnum, Oxford), which in turn was the English version
of the (earlier and quite different) "Ganz auf Vertrauen. Geschichte und
Kirchenverständnis der Glaubensmissionen" Gießen/Basel: Brunnen 1992).
All three books have been sold out for years, and as they have not been
superseded by more recent works, I felt that a new edition of the English
version would be appropriate.
When I did the original research in the late 1980s, I lived in Germany,
though my mind was much in Africa. In 1992 I moved back to Africa, not to
Tanzania where I had lived for seven years, but to its neighbour, Malawi;
and from rural missionary work to teaching at the university.
To really update the book while in Germany would have been a daunting
task, but to do so from here in Malawi, with somewhat changing research
interests due to different work committments, would have been outrightly
impossible. Though I could not bring the contents up to date, I have
included new information wherever it was available to me, marked by an
asterisk (*). Such additions are mostly found in the footnotes, but also
sometimes in the text. And where they have a Malawian bias, this is due to
the fact that this is the country where I have been living and working over
the last quarter of a century.
Looking back over the last 25 years, I want to express my gratitude that I
could teach 15 years at the University of Malawi (Chancellor College,
Zomba) and 10 years at Mzuzu University. I am grateful to our students from
whom I learnt so much and to my colleagues with whom I shared the work.
I also want to take this opportunity to thank those who made the research
(Dr. theol. Heidelberg University) possible, first the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft and then Dr. Irene Fiedler, and also to thank those who
helped in the research work and in the productionof the books that resulted
from it.
Klaus Fiedler
Mzuzu, March 2018
6 Chapter 1: A Plurality of Missions: The Faith
Missions in the Context of the Protestant Missionary
Movement
The term 'faith missions' was not coined by the faith missions themselves.
They did not claim that other missions worked without faith, nor did they
claim to have more faith than the missions that had started their work
decades earlier. It was others who took one of the faith missions' innovative
1concepts—the 'faith principle' of financial support —and referred to them
under that name. This was only partially correct, because 'faith support' is
not the most important characteristic of these missions. The most
important characteristic is indeed brought out by the name they often use
2for themselves: 'interdenominational' missions. Because not every
interdenominational mission is necessarily a faith mission, in this book they will
always be called 'faith missions.' After all, the Methodists, the Baptists and
the Quakers did not fare badly with a name that others had chosen for
them.
Possible definitions of 'faith missions'
There are various ways of defining what a faith mission is. For this book, the
term is defined by history. A faith mission is a mission which traces its origin
3or (more often) the origin of its principles directly or indirectly back to the
1 As Hudson Taylor formulated it: 'God's work done in God's way will not lack
God's supply.'
2 The association of North American faith missions bears the name
Interdenominational Foreign Missions Association (IFMA). This term was chosen in
order not to give the impression that denominational missions lacked faith (Edwin
L. Frizen, An Historical Study of the Interdenominational Foreign Mission
Association in Relation to Evangelical Unity and Cooperation, DMiss, Deerfield,
1981, 23). Nevertheless, IFMA published a booklet in which each member mission
presented itself, under the title: 'Faith Mighty Faith' (J. Herbert Kane, Wheaton,
1956).
3 This includes the limited number of missions which did not start as faith
missions, but at some point in their history, consciously accepted their principles.
7 China Inland Mission (CIM), which was founded by Hudson Taylor and his
wife Maria in 1865—not simply as one new mission among others, but as
the first mission of what turned out to be a completely new missionary
4movement.
In order to define clearly what faith missions are, it is better to look at the
various missionary movements in the context of the revival movements
that shaped Protestant church history.
Looking at church history in this way, it is less a linear development of
denominations than a succession of revival cross currents affecting the tions and the non-Christian sectors of society in various ways.
Because nearly all missions trace their origin back to a revival, the various
movements of spiritual renewal from which
