Seymour Mills Spencer

Seymour Mills Spencer
Rayuwa
Haihuwa	Hartford (mul) , 27 ga Maris, 1812
ƙasa	Sabuwar Zelandiya
Mutuwa	30 ga Afirilu, 1898
Sana'a
Sana'a	missionary (en)
Imani
Addini	Anglicanism (en)

An haifi Reverend Seymour Mills Spencer (27 Maris 1812 - 30 Afrilu 1898) a Hartford, Connecticut . Shi da matarsa Ellen Stanley Spencer sun bi burin aiwatar da aikin mishan a New Zealand. Ya horar da aikin mishan a Ingila a Kwalejin Church Missionary Society, Islington . The Church Missionary Society (CMS) kungiya ce ta Bishara wacce ta kasance wani ɓangare na Cocin Ingila .

Ma'auratan sun tashi a ranar 17 ga Januirun shekarar 1842 zuwa New Zealand a cikin jirgin ruwa, Louise Campbell kuma sun isa Auckland. Bishop Selwyn ne ya naɗa Spencer ya zama Deacon na gundumar Taupō a ranar 24 ga Satumba 1843. An gudanar da bikin naɗa a cikin Ikilisiyar St. John the Baptist a Te Waimate.

Saboda abin kunya game da ci gaban da Spencer ya yi wa wata yarinya Māori, ma'auratan sun ƙaura daga Taupō zuwa Rotorua. Daga 23 ga Nuwamba 1843 ya yi aiki a karkashin mishan na CMS Thomas Chapman a tashar mishan ta CMS da aka kafa kwanan nan a Te Ngae a Rotorua . A cikin 1844 Spencer ya kasance a tashar mishan ta Maketu kusa da Tauranga .

A cikin shekarar 1844 ma'auratan sun kafa gidan mishan na farko a Tafkin Tarawera; suna aiki tare da Māori na yankin, a cikin 1848 sun gina al'umma mai suna Te Wairoa . A cikin shekarar 1844 an dakatar da Spencer daga CMS saboda rashin dace da wata mace Māori.[5] Ya koma CMS a shekarar 1849 kuma ya kasance a Ōpōtiki har zuwa kimanin 1855...

Wani lokaci bayan 1855 ma'auratan sun koma aikin Te Wairoa kuma sun kasance a can har zuwa 1870. Spencer ya ziyarci Rotomahana da Te Ariki sau da yawa a lokacin shekaru 35 tare da CMS. Ayyukansa tare da Māori na yankin sun taimaka wajen bunkasa yankin, kuma ya taimaka wajen taimakawa masu bincike da 'yan kasuwa a kusa da Rotorua da Tafkin Tarawera.

Ellen Stanley Spencer ta mutu a Maketu a shekara ta 1882 tana da shekaru 65; an kwashe jikinta don binnewa a Kariri a bakin Tekun Tarawera . A ranar 10 ga Yuni 1886, Dutsen Tarawera ya fashe ya binne al'ummomin da ke kewaye da shi ciki har da Kariri. Spencer ya mutu a ranar 30 ga Afrilu 1898 a Rongotea kuma an binne shi a Maketu . Ɗansu, Frederick H. Spencer, ya gina gidan ibada na Spencer Family a Kariri; An binne gawar Spencer kuma an gudanar da bukukuwan keɓewa ga gidan ibada a ranar 20 ga Fabrairu 1924.