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especially likes to sing this easter him because it was composed in tanzania, one of the few hems of african origin. and the german lutheran hymnal, tanzania is where booth kona was born, the daughter of a missionary. when she left africa, she was too young to have any personal memories, but now aged 92, she wants to see tanzania for herself. ah, ah ah, ah, shoot a nice souvenir. it has a few cracks, but it still sounds good. i love the clean feelin. oh,

the retired teacher is confident about making the journey playing the piano and gardening have kept her young. she says, ought kona taught music and religion to generations of children, and she continues to offer her services and the parish to prepare for her trip. she's reading documents and letters of her father auto haga, stored in the archives of the lutheran missionary society. shortly after completing his theology studies, pastor hog, and i was sent to africa, the german colonial period and east africa was already a thing of the past. with the end of the 1st world war, in 1918, the victorious allies were mandated by the league of nations to administer the german overseas territories. most of the german missionaries were forced to leave. but 10 years later, the envoys of the berlin based bethel mission returned among them. otto ha, gonna in jesus service as a 1927 film put it souvenirs

from africa. arnold's corona's only link with tanzania. she has fond memories of her parents talking about africa on the landscape. the people the simple life guns i take that he didn't, they told us about everyday life in africa yet. and i, for instance, they had a boy who helped them in the kitchen. and as i, unlike in europe, even fetching water, another aaron's too much more time than a german household in me upside financial. and we always listened with great interest at 5 out on the missouri inch. we'll see it's word on the day before she's due to leave woot packs, photos, and documents from her family's time in africa to give the tanzanian parish. she herself doesn't have any personal memories of the country. when her mother became gravely ill, the family had to leave. when home was just 2 years old. of

the essence, i had every my i photographed my birth certificate for the 1st page it. it was issued in book colbert or at that time the country was administered by the british . so it's in english. okay. english, oscar state, hasty killed in this, the church. my father built me portals then photos of us girls. i'm r o here again with a group of black and white children can don't shoot at home just mostly my father school house will father with his students who run before leaving for the british mandated territory. pastor auto ha, gonna had to take an english course. he also studied swahili and other african languages. well known goods, grand daughter layla is boning up on the local customs. she'll be accompanying booth on the journey because 8 of them,

older people are often referred to as baba or mamma lawana. wow. can i know that word from my father co harry means goodbye. i remember that too. we can learn this stuff to morrow and the plain after a 9 hour flight, they have a stop over and doris salaam tens, and he has financial capital. they've been joined by their cousin, a doctor who's familiar with africa kilimanjaro africa's highest mountain. that means it's not much farther to the ca gave her region bordering lake victoria, on tans and he has north western boundary. the journey by ship took holt's father several weeks they land at bal cova airport, located in the border triangle of tanzania,

rwanda and uganda. their excitement mounts. what has become of the parish roots? father established 2 representatives of the lutheran diocese are there to meet the travellers. they'd like to take root straight to the place she was born. but 1st they go to the headquarters of the lutheran church and bu, cova. here in north western tanzania, people live off the border trade with the neighboring countries of rwanda and uganda. from fishing, coffee and bananas, christians and muslims make up around 35 percent of the tanzanian population. there are also hindus and animist communities. islam was brought to the tanzanian mainland and the 19th century by muslim missionaries from the sultan. it of oman but in the can get our

region. most people are christian. the largest church in bo cova is the roman catholic cathedral. the headquarters of the lutheran diocese is much simpler, but the complex includes a guest house restaurant and seminar rooms with 3 she go man. yes. magazine and yeah, yeah. why don't zia the corn and what is it said dot sure. yeah. bishop abednego cash shahan studied in germany and is curious about the photos and reminiscences of the missionary, auto ha, gonna. as the added into not mine, which i have to port. his view of the german missionary's contribution is positive . he cites the words of the 1st indigenous bishop of the lutheran church in tanzania, andrea cody general and knocked him be off to the german missionaries, left the country because of the war. he said weak. the church in tanzania is now an

orphan shade, tanzania. his t s. fate of rice. but the bishop tells his visitors that unlike the churches in europe, the african church is constantly growing. however, he's concerned about a new development in east africa. pentecostal missionaries are competing with the established churches, our escalated misty. there should leave. that in itself wouldn't be bad. the bad thing is that they are spreading false teachings. add somebody or any done. some of them say the sink should only pray without going to the hospital, who are bitten on it, some crank and houses again. bruno e, i live together, they sing the easter him more in swahili and german 4. ah ah, is dash don done. hi lee. oh boy george john c o n. oh god yes

america, will ye cries u v. oh yeah. long lane. ah, yes. would you go mines of an african him sung in german, that's very ran this past year to mitchell. then finally on take eager ramayo where hood corner was born 50 kilometers in the direction of the ugandan border. this would have been almost a day's journey for her father 100 years ago, but the missionaries put up with many hardships gladly. they miss once good that the concept of mission that was current 100 years ago no longer exists. as under the absolute claim of any one, religion has long since been replaced by into religious dialog. up. coldest form. the pastors of the battle missionary society had no doubts about the universal

validity of christianity. they came to convert the africans in his letters and records whose father describes the native religions as pagan serving of spirits. traditions such as polygamy were condemned news. ah, finally they arrive, antigua rama, lutheran church. the missionaries daughter has returned and she is given a warm welcome. older members of the community shake her hand. it seems that otto huggins has not been forgotten. even after almost a 100 years, a service is held in honor of the guests. today, the king, rama parrish has almost 4000 members. it's one of the largest in the diocese. most of the residents here are subsistence farmers

and his welcoming address church, elder enough come lazara, recalls the difficult beginnings of the 1st christians in this area. even before the arrival of german missionaries, regular went in little full, 14 people had been paid by the end of this year miss. from uganda. this now says congregation was forced to worship. you may see if you'd only go from grandma, my dear little whoa! who made you submit the 4th year over the christian king, who were a witch? good, i'm up. his power. the 1st it was a miss shift one where the visual or go hug gamma. i imagine with you to please dr. with it more prominent one b. oh yeah,

i didn't up with a new parishioner is baptized bunny. when the hood and her siblings were baptized here, there were already african pastors. i flatter at my father wanted his 1st child to be baptized by a black pasta that fill the tuft with good, often which that's part of the image i have of my parents sat on a wall. they always treated africans as they're equal sky m. o, who use in the collections during church services don't even cover the basic causes. the lutheran church and hands and he had depends on partnerships with other countries, especially with parishes in germany. oh, the german lutheran church hasn't sent out any missionaries for more than 50 years . the evangelizing situation is reversed. today the german church is learning from tanzania. it's in j. u, it's a younger church. he is,

they don't have the same hierarchy, provide tools. they don't have our enormous administrative burden. it might show was the passions and not as big as our parishes them manageable. hum links the easy i t and they don't have the problems and concerns that our past has and church members have to cope with he, he kinds of to shlang at times capt. hammon, the old church registers are brought out baptisms, weddings, funerals, if everything has been recorded here in 1930, she comes across her father's name. this is all otto. ha gonna. if you look with you about via a business, the parish is relaxed about its history. that the, the question of whether the africans had any reservations about the european missionaries amuses the parish elders with another 2. 0, people people, i don't know what happened,

but the glenda screws were established. people like penance like to send their kids the screws her and do the disability which will establish towson by the way, the missionaries, her little people went there for treatment. our church is principally a gym and church because even our song sa gym over lunch. the guests learn how the parish has developed during the past decades to new schools have opened. soon a new church will be built. the school building where hoot corona's father taught is still standing. they want to show it to her after lunch and i love them. being the 5th. for in the mission of it, you can go to am i. i think the elementary school of key gramma,

the swahili word for school is sheila pronounced to like the german word, a relic of the colonial era than the 220 pupils are taught here. elementary school is compulsory in tanzania, and attendance is free. up in secondary schools, on the other hand, charge tuition fees. that's beyond the means of many parents. jace the issue once tricky. beginning when i'm tune, guardian warrior. i know the school was built by a pasta. i gave my, by the name of auto ha, gonna from germany to, to work in more than they were your mom. he was here from 1928 to 1932. you mom and i'm yeah. and this lady is one of his children. are you on broke up? what did you understand got more that i know so mother. here the children respond with a lively song and appropriate tribute to the retired music teacher from germany.

with then it's on to the main building built of brick over 90 years ago. new the thought that it would come from the to the people who was in the community and especially the pupils, had to lend a hand and constructing the school. pastor huggins attached great importance to this, and not only because it cut costs what the missionaries called work training was part of their educational concept. they wanted africans to learn the suppose and german virtues of diligence and discipline. hogan, i noted i was pleasantly surprised by the cheerful competition with which the boys went about this. not so easy task of pounding the clay in 2 hour sessions over just 5 afternoons. we were able to produce more than $800.00 bricks and the school is still standing.

i've been paying further because his who he butte, this room, that's where i had the my primary education. it was a few visually. i cannot, that's exactly the picture. we have a father with this with this. it was it does it. but he always said, i'm just everything that i have in terms of knowledge, skills or talent is not for me. this is alice me. i have the obligation to pass it on to others. the and i love i that's okay. that's what her father called sewing the seed of god's word. schoolwork was an important instrument of evangelization for the missionaries this much hug. and i campaigned with his superiors and the lutheran missionary society to set up a complete christian school system in the region. we cannot limit ourselves to

teaching reading and writing in the village schools and leave further education to the government. schools which is 90. 9 to day, almost a century later, huggins vision has become reality. private schools run by the churches have a better reputation than state schools in tanzania. a christian education is a passport to social advancement. ha. gonna advocated a soft missionary approach, respecting the african languages, social structures, customs, and traditions. the incumbent bishop of bo cobra says that this was what made it possible for an african national church to emerge. and these missionaries use the d, the language, the language of the traditional religions to explicate, to explain to in dublin,

their bible in the chretien, their teachings, for example, the name good was taken from the african tradition already jim. the education was you, they establish it was use the the as a means over quarter navigation. we have where freedom fighters will weigh. i told the by missionaries, it was missionary schools, and they also established you hospitals in order to heave civil diseases which had him dead air, many african back in teague, a rama booth is shown a clinic run by the church. it was originally established by missionaries from germany. there is no national health insurance scheme in tanzania. patients must pay for treatment themselves, but with assistance from partner parishes. some of them in germany, the church in tanzania can help some of the poorest patients. and a senior doctor explains that the h i v and malaria programs organized by the government are free of charge.

vaccinations against the corona virus are also free. and then go back and tell the god we have we have a campaign to reach those who cannot get to the facility. so you for that mobile paintings. going pedagogy to day that i don't as, as who info vaccination to reach the poor. the life expenses of getting had day and had bed happiness. la newburgh confirmed this assessment. the widow and mother of 2 school aged children runs a small diner on the main street of cheek ramah. to day there is fish and rice on the menu. her earnings are no more than a one euro a day passed

her some will resolve comes to her assistance. the widow can't expect any support from the state. the church is her only hope. i told her she was, i don't earn enough to pay the school fees for both my girls. that's why i have a 2nd job pembina. i also help out on a farm. them specialty. no goodness, sorry, knock them out of poverty. here is an enormous challenge for the charge. cut the cookie, did you, especially young people who don't have jobs or prospect jawad kaiser, they moved to the big cities or they drift into crime and drug abuse. but when i shoot girls in particular, fall by the wayside, because if were they don't, has money for further school education to escape from poverty sub grandmother for over la quinta to coordinate cooper, happiness, la newberg could benefit from

a micro credit program. the diocese has set up to combat poverty. it's intended to give women in particular, the opportunity to be economically independent where people can contribute to money can receive and borrow money in groups air. and we have seen emily, a being successful in our groups will do establishing their basis. where are $4.00 video convenient shootings, which is related to median, a euros to a $1000000.00. and they effect layton in diffidence, groups of people who save and borrow money and they give us more interest, which is the also divided among themselves. after the end of the year. everyone else tries to survive through subsistence farming and key grammar. most people own a bit of land. what's left of the crop they sell but poverty is

increasing. here. the corona pandemic and the war and ukraine have triggered a cost of living explosion. and above all, it's the lack of water caused by climate change that's making life so hard. tanzania has experienced a severe drought for more than 3 years, and it's estimated that global warming could turn large parts of the country into desert. the lutheran church and northwest tanzania has started a modest reforestation program to combat the effects of climate change. antigua rama to a grove of spruce, as has been established on land belonging to this parish, explains one of the deacons. it's hoped the trees will prevent further soil erosion and also provide firewood before the property is re forested. those confirmation is students. when we come to our

church, they went to study the castle commission. we told them to come with 5 kids every student. then we assisted them to plunge it to keep it well. oh, at the end of routes, visit the middle school choir performs in her honor. the music of africa fascinated her father. he left the collection of traditional lyrics from this region b, b, b, you are to be envied for the joy and vitality with which she sing here in kiko rama . it's time to say good bye. and again, this was more than a pilgrimage to her place of birth. it was a moving encounter with africa, with the african church and the complex history of evangelization. time to sum up.

i mean we were rushed. we were, i'm surprised and overwhelmed by the hospitality and the way, i guess it's a welcome to you. as a matter of course, jesse's gown is the and that the people remember with fondness the evangelize period long ago in which missionaries light the foundations of a small church community. here i'm taking a monitor doc, yvonne decimal, the star, lima low. can a, you know, oh, oh, days of europeans coming to tanzania to preach the gospel are long gone, replaced by encounters of mutual respect between christians, from 2 continents. africa was the great love of the booth corona's father who died young. he was particularly impressed by the people their music and their lively faith now aged more than 92 hoots. kona has been able to experience these

things. first hand. good i'm. i'm incredibly grateful. i could experience it myself . oh oh oh wow. oh, yeah. who a a

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