Rusangu University

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In 1903 William Harrison Anderson,[http://www.dacb.org/stories/southafrica/anderson_wh.html W. H. Aderson's biography] a Christian missionary of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, crossed the Zambezi River from Solusi Mission in Zimbabwe to set up the Rusangu Mission in Zambia in 1905.{{cite web

| title = Intrepid Pioneer Missionaries, William and Nora Anderson, Africa

| work = Adventist Mission

| url = http://www.adventistmission.org/article.php?id=363#41

| access-date = 2012-02-20}} Includes picture of Anderson and Stockil travelling by ox wagon{{cite book

| last = Anderson

| first = Gerald H. editor

| title = Biographical dictionary of Christian missions

| publisher = Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

| year = 1999

| location = Grand Rapids, MI

| page = 21

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=oQ8BFk9K0ToC&q=%22the+andersons+traveled+north%2C+crossing+the+zambezi+river%2C+and+in+1905%22&pg=PA21

| isbn = 978-0-8028-4680-8

}} King Lewanika of the Barotse people had invited Anderson to come into his territory and establish the mission.{{cite journal

| last = Anderson

| first = W. H.

| title = Locating the Pemba Mission Station, Barotseland

| journal = The Youth's Instructor

| volume = 66

| issue = 9

| pages = 3–5

| publisher = Review and Herald Publishing Association

| location = Washington, D. C.

| date = 26 February 1918

| url = http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/YI/YI19180226-V66-09__C.pdf#view=fit

| access-date = 2012-02-21}}

Anderson walked 900 miles before deciding on a location. He described how he chose the site:{{quotation|In locating the new mission there was a combination of four things that I especially desired. First, of course, was proximity to the native. A person can accomplish very little in laboring for the people unless he is near them. Secondly, we wanted a good supply of water...we wanted water for irrigation, that we might raise fruit and garden produce. Thirdly we desired proximity to the railway line... so I followed the watershed, in the hope that we might be near the railway line when it was built through the country.... The fourth point we desired was to establish an industrial mission, where the natives might be taught to work, which is one of the principles of the gospel. We therefore wanted good soil.{{cite book

| last = Ragsdale

| first = John P.

| title = Protestant mission education in Zambia, 1880–1954

| publisher = Associated University Presses

| year = 1986

| location = Cranbury, NJ

| pages = [https://archive.org/details/protestantmissio0000rags/page/27 27]–28

| url = https://archive.org/details/protestantmissio0000rags

| url-access = registration

| quote = In locating the new mission there was a combination of four things that I especially desired..

| isbn = 0-941664-09-0

}}

}}

Anderson and his wife arrived on the farm the fifth of September 1905. He built their home, planted a garden, developed a farm, built a school-house, taught the school, and acted as doctor and nurse to the people who came to the station for help.{{cite journal

| last = Anderson

| first = W. H.

| title = Opening other new stations

| journal = The Church Officers Gazette

| volume = 12

| issue = 7

| page = 15

| publisher = Review and Herald Publishing Association

| location = Washington, D. C.

| date = July 1925

| url = http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/TCOG/TCOG19250701-V12-07__B.pdf#view=fit

| access-date = 2012-02-22}}

From this mission station, grew the Rusangu Primary School, the Rusangu Secondary School and eventually in 1975 the Rusangu Ministerial School. In 1993, the Rusangu Ministerial School changed its name to Zambia Adventist Seminary. A year later in 1994, the Seminary was closed to pave way for re-organization.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}}

In 1997, plans to re-open the Seminary brought the idea of the Zambia Adventist College that would offer other courses in addition to theology and pastoral training. In 2000, an in-service program for serving church pastors began at Riverside Farm Institute in collaboration with Solusi University. With the full development of the Zambia Adventist College idea, this pastors' program finally moved back to the historic Rusangu Mission site in May 2003. Rapid developments have since given birth to a full-fledged Zambia Adventist university, now Rusangu University.[https://www.afridemics.com/school-page/163/Rusangu-University Rusangu University (RU)] AFRIDEMICS Retrieved 11 December 2018

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