Missionaries+(9-2)

=Group: Missionaries= Who were they? what was their purpose? how did they live? were they part of the government?

A missionary is a person or a group of people who share Christianity or another religion as their faith. In this case they are sent by the Roman Catholic Church to convert those who do not believe in their gods and eventually devote their faith in the holy god, Jesus Christ. Missionaries might be men or women, clergy, ordained, or even those with special trainings. They might be sent off for a long period of time of even a short period of time. The church would pay some and some do it just to practice their religion. In the early 1600’s the European Catholics were sent to Africa to enhance their little knowledge of the culture. Their main goal was to convert those to Christianity. Unlike the Christians those in Africa believed in more than one god. When they arrived in the new inhabitance they built churches and led masses for the converts. They would translate the Bible and help lead the converts to incorporate their devotion of Christianity into their lives. Missionaries would help many out of poverty and disease. They would educate children and adults about medicine and also built hospitals. Some missionaries would help out in a time of disaster after an earthquake, tsunami, or a flood. They were not part of the government which ruled the villages but over time they created a judicial system and reprimands for laws being broken. In the book, __Things Fall Apart__ missionaries came to Nigeria. Relating the story to true facts there was a leader of a missionary group he was a man named Samuel Alexander Bill. He was born in 1864. He was an Irish Christian missionary and the founder of the Que Iboe mission, which was later, renamed mission Africa. He went to Nigeria to talk to the Ibeno people in 1887. He worked around the banks of the Qua Iboe River. He changed many minds of Nigerians and he was a well-respected man in Nigeria. A theological collage named Abak was named in high honor. He later died in Nigeria in 1942. We have heard from logs like Samuel Bill, those missionaries who were sent to Africa lived among the villagers. They lived in compounds along with the people there. At first many people were fascinated by their presence but then the fascination died down. And some thought of them to be disrupting. Missionaries are not just men and women preaching gods name but also those who educate others. Many Africans thought of the “White people” to be foreigners and outsiders and did not want them part of the community. Some overtime became accustom to the new lives that were introduced to them. They liked having their kids learn to read and write. Also knowing if they were to get sick, someone would be working at a hospital to heal them. Their previous beliefs were then questioned.