The new Mission station in Lusubilo, Nyasa, Tanzania, 1937

"'Lusubilo' die neue Station. Das alte Mwaya-Haus wurde durch Br. E. Waldner in Lusubilo wieder aufgebaut." ("Lusubilo, the new station. The old house in Mwaya was rebuilt by Brother E. Waldner in Lusubilo.") A one-storied rectangular house built of bricks. It is still surrounded by scaffoldings. The mission station in Mwaya had to be pulled down because the water level of Lake Malawi [Lake Nyasa] was rising. -- Ernst Waldner (1898-?) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine and served in East Africa. He married Julie Friederike Ebinger. -- Theodor Tietzen (1893-1973) was a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine. Having married Hildegard Marie Lenz in 1921 and served in South Africa (West) from 1922 to 1927, he moved to East Africa, where he served in Mbozi till 1929 and in Utengule till 1939. In the 1950s he returned to South Africa.