By Elimu Assistant Team 
ways in which the missionaries used to increase African participation in the missionaries between 1844 and 1914
- They had a call from God/Inspiration
- They hoped for internal gain (Education, European way of life/European civilization/cultural practice.
- They wanted to identify with Europeans/European way of life/European civilization/cultural practice.
- They were forced into the mission stations by their local leaders and thus got converted.
- The misfits/outcasts in African communities found refuge in mission stations and hence got converted/stopped the slave trade/orphans/widows.
- There were those who were curious about the new faith/pealing
- There were those who wanted to enhance their social status/prestige/superiority/equality.
- Some Traditional beliefs talked with Christian teaching
- Bible translocation
