An haifi Reverend Seymour Mills Spencer (27 Maris 1812 - 30 Afrilu 1898) a Hartford, Connecticut . Shi da matarsa Ellen Stanley Spencer sun bi burin aiwatar da aikin mishan a New Zealand. Ya horar da aikin mishan a Ingila a Kwalejin Church Missionary Society, Islington . The Church Missionary Society (CMS) kungiya ce ta Bishara wacce ta kasance wani ɓangare na Cocin Ingila .

Seymour Mills Spencer
Rayuwa
Haihuwa Hartford (mul) Fassara, 27 ga Maris, 1812
ƙasa Sabuwar Zelandiya
Mutuwa 30 ga Afirilu, 1898
Sana'a
Sana'a missionary (en) Fassara
Imani
Addini Anglicanism (en) Fassara

Ma'auratan sun tashi a ranar 17 ga Januirun shekarar 1842 zuwa New Zealand a cikin jirgin ruwa, Louise Campbell kuma sun isa Auckland. Bishop Selwyn ne ya naɗa Spencer ya zama Deacon na gundumar Taupō a ranar 24 ga Satumba 1843. [1] An gudanar da bikin naɗa a cikin Ikilisiyar St. John the Baptist a Te Waimate.

Saboda abin kunya game da ci gaban da Spencer ya yi wa wata yarinya Māori, ma'auratan sun ƙaura daga Taupō zuwa Rotorua. Daga 23 ga Nuwamba 1843 ya yi aiki a karkashin mishan na CMS Thomas Chapman a tashar mishan ta CMS da aka kafa kwanan nan a Te Ngae a Rotorua . A cikin 1844 Spencer ya kasance a tashar mishan ta Maketu kusa da Tauranga . [2]

A cikin shekarar 1844 ma'auratan sun kafa gidan mishan na farko a Tafkin Tarawera; suna aiki tare da Māori na yankin, a cikin 1848 sun gina al'umma mai suna Te Wairoa . A cikin shekarar 1844 an dakatar da Spencer daga CMS saboda rashin dace da wata mace Māori.[5] Ya koma CMS a shekarar 1849 kuma ya kasance a Ōpōtiki har zuwa kimanin 1855..[3].

Wani lokaci bayan 1855 ma'auratan sun koma aikin Te Wairoa kuma sun kasance a can har zuwa 1870. Spencer ya ziyarci Rotomahana da Te Ariki sau da yawa a lokacin shekaru 35 tare da CMS. Ayyukansa tare da Māori na yankin sun taimaka wajen bunkasa yankin, kuma ya taimaka wajen taimakawa masu bincike da 'yan kasuwa a kusa da Rotorua da Tafkin Tarawera.

Ellen Stanley Spencer ta mutu a Maketu a shekara ta 1882 tana da shekaru 65; an kwashe jikinta don binnewa a Kariri a bakin Tekun Tarawera . A ranar 10 ga Yuni 1886, Dutsen Tarawera ya fashe ya binne al'ummomin da ke kewaye da shi ciki har da Kariri. Spencer ya mutu a ranar 30 ga Afrilu 1898 a Rongotea kuma an binne shi a Maketu . Ɗansu, Frederick H. Spencer, ya gina gidan ibada na Spencer Family a Kariri; An binne gawar Spencer kuma an gudanar da bukukuwan keɓewa ga gidan ibada a ranar 20 ga Fabrairu 1924.

Manazarta

gyara sashe
  1. "Appointments by Bishop Selwyn". Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 102, 17 February 1844, Page 405. 1844. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  2. "The Church Missionary Gleaner, October 1854". Leonard, of Rotorua. Adam Matthew Digital. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  3. "Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican clergy in the South Pacific" (PDF). 2015. Retrieved 12 December 2015.