Macha Mission Station
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[edit] History
Macha Mission Station began as a Christian mission station in 1906. Hannah Frances Davidson, an American missionary from the Brethren in Christ church, traveled there from Matopo Mission in Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe). She was accompanied by two African helpers and Ada Engle, another missionary. Davidson and her companions subsequently embarked on the task of converting local Tonga and Ila peoples to Christianity. They established a school, a church, and eventually a clinic.
The mission station became the anchor for later Brethren in Christ mission work in Southern Zambia with missionaries expanding to Sikalongo and to Choma. The mission station continues to function currently. It has grown considerably and now includes a modern hospital, a nursing school, two secondary schools and two primary schools. A malaria research center has also been established. The Malaria Institute at Macha (MIAM) collaborates with Johns Hopkins University to do continuing research in malaria and other related diseases.
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- Engle, Anna R., J. A. Climenhaga and Leoda A. Buckwalter. There is No Difference, God Works in Africa and India. Nappanee, Ind.: E. V. Publishing House, 1950.
- Davidson, Hannah Frances. South and South Central Africa. Elgin, Ill.: Brethren Publishing House, 1915.
- Wittlinger, Carlton O. Quest for Piety and Obeidence: The Story of the Brethren in Christ. Nappanee, Ind.: Evangel Press, 1978.
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