Missionary Families Find a Sense of Place and Identity is a community history of members of nineteen Lutheran missionary families who served in Tanzania for at least twenty years. John Benson is a member of this community and he interviewed over ninety people for this project. It compares the lives of the missionary generation who primarily grew up in the United States and went to Tanzania as missionaries, to those of their children who grew up in Africa but mainly settled in the United States as adults. This book tells the story of both generations chronologically and is centered on the themes of connection to place and religious development.