Congregation bidding good-bye to missionary Guth, Gonja, Tanzania, 1938

"Die Gonja-Gemeinde verabschiedet Missionar Guth" ("The Gonja congregation bidding good-bye to missionary Guth"). Group of well-dressed men, women and children. Most of the men wearing hats and the women wearing scarves. Two of the men reading out (?) from open books. In front on the left side Mr. Guth, on the right side Mrs. Guth(?). Wilhelm Guth (1888-1980), from Zeiskam in the Rhineland Palatinate, studied commerce before joining the Leipzig Mission as a pastor. He served in Gonja (southern Pare) from 1913 to 1917 and from 1927 to 1938. He left a large number of photographs, mostly taken by himself but including some by members of his family or fellow missionaries.