Bethel Mission, German East Africa
The Bethel Mission, also known as Berlin III, "Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft für Deutsch-Ostafrika" (EMDOA), or "Berliner Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft für Ostafrika" was a Berlin-based Protestant mission initiated by Karl Peters in German East Africa with a "uniert" religious doctrine. From its founding in 1886 until 1891 the mission was limited to the Indian Ocean coast; it was then led by Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, Senior of the Bethel Institution. In October 1905 the society created Mkoma Mbuli (The Storyteller), a Shambala monthly, which probably continued publication until 1914.