Harmon Schmelzenbach

Harmon Schmelzenbach

Harmon Schmelzenbach is noted as having been the founding visionary of Africa Nazarene University (ANU) in Kenya, East Africa. As a Career Assignment Missionary to the Church of the Nazarene, Schmelzenbach continues in a long tradition of family missionary work that started with his grandfather Harmon F. Schmelzenbach. Harmon F. began the missionary work of the Nazarene Church in Africa in 1910.

Schmelzenbach was first appointed to Africa in 1960, and laid the groundwork for the establishment of the Nazarene Church in many countries across East Africa. This effort culminated with the establishment of ANU in 1987 on land that he chose and arranged for purchase. The purpose of founding ANU was an effort to train local pastors and church leaders for the ever increasing reach of the Nazarene Church in Africa.

Schmelzenbach is third in a line of four generations of missionary dedication to the Nazarene church. His son, Harmon R. Schmelzenbach continues the legacy in service to the South Pacific region with the Fiji Boat project.

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