Cameroon
The Lutheran Brethren Mission (USA) arrived in Cameroon in 1920 and started its work in the vast populated plain from Garoua to Lake Chad. Pastor B. Revne and his wife opened a mission station in Yagoua by the boarder to Chad. From this missionary activity the Church of the Lutheran Brethren in Cameroon was born.
In 1923, a Norwegian-American missionary A.L.Gundersen arrived in Douala with his wife, deaconness Olette Bertsen, and Anne Olsen. The first station was opened in Mboula among the Gbaya people. Two years later, in 1925, the Norwegian Missionary Society began work in neighboring Ngaoundéré. Later the Norwegian mission turned its main attention to the Duru and Tikar people. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Cameroon has grown out of this missionary work.
The Lutheran Church of Cameroon was founded by people and pastors from Nigeria who were fleeing from the Biafran civil war. The beginnings of this church go back to the year 1965 when two pastors met with four families and held services in their homes.
