The Bethel Mission, also known as Berlin III, Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft für Deutsch-Ostafrika (EMDOA), [1] or Berliner Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft für Ostafrika [2] was a Berlin-based Protestant mission initiated by Karl Peters in German East Africa with a uniert religious doctrine. [1] From its founding in 1886 [3] until 1891 the mission was limited to the Indian Ocean coast; it was then led by Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, Senior of the Bethel Institution. [1]
In October 1905 the society created Mkoma Mbuli (The Storyteller), a Shambala monthly, which probably continued publication until 1914. [4]