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'''Lubwa Mission''', located in [[Chinsali District]] of [[Zambia]], is a Christian mission established in the early 20th century by the United Church of Zambia. The mission | '''Lubwa Mission''', located in [[Chinsali District]] of [[Zambia]], is a Christian mission established in the early 20th century by the United Church of Zambia (Church of Scotland). The mission was dedicated to providing education, healthcare, and spiritual guidance to the local community. The provision of education was a major method of evangelisation. | ||
==Education== | ==History== | ||
===Education=== | |||
The mission also operated a vocational training center, which offers courses in practical skills such as carpentry, tailoring, and other trades. By 1967 Lubwa Church had been fully Africanised. It had also relinquished its role in health care and education. | The mission also operated a vocational training center, which offers courses in practical skills such as carpentry, tailoring, and other trades. By 1967 Lubwa Church had been fully Africanised. It had also relinquished its role in health care and education. | ||
==Approach== | ===Approach=== | ||
Lubwa Mission used literacy and intellectual agreement with the contents of the catechism as criteria for admission to church membership. New members were incorporated into the structure of the Mission as teachers, evangelists, catechists, or paid employees of the Mission. The converts were initially mainly young men, exhibiting a westernized style of life (use of language, food habits, clothing, house building, hygiene, child-rearing, relationship with their spouses).<ref>[https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-development-of-Lubwa-Mission%2C-Chinsali%2C-Zambia%2C-Ipenburg/1c11dab1f9b7215d2e30b9ce9a3720e2dfaad0d9 The development of Lubwa Mission, Chinsali, Zambia, 1904-1967], 1991</ref> | Lubwa Mission used literacy and intellectual agreement with the contents of the catechism as criteria for admission to church membership. New members were incorporated into the structure of the Mission as teachers, evangelists, catechists, or paid employees of the Mission. The converts were initially mainly young men, exhibiting a westernized style of life (use of language, food habits, clothing, house building, hygiene, child-rearing, relationship with their spouses).<ref>[https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-development-of-Lubwa-Mission%2C-Chinsali%2C-Zambia%2C-Ipenburg/1c11dab1f9b7215d2e30b9ce9a3720e2dfaad0d9 The development of Lubwa Mission, Chinsali, Zambia, 1904-1967], 1991</ref> | ||
==Politics== | ===Politics=== | ||
In the 1940s Lubwa missionaries came under criticism by young mission teachers, who established a Chinsali Branch of the [[Northern Rhodesia]] [[African National Congress]] at Lubwa. The church was used as a base for the ANC to mobilise political support in [[Chinsali District]]. | In the 1940s Lubwa missionaries came under criticism by young mission teachers, who established a Chinsali Branch of the [[Northern Rhodesia]] [[African National Congress]] at Lubwa. The church was used as a base for the ANC to mobilise political support in [[Chinsali District]]. | ||
