He worked under the auspices of the Anglican Church Missionary Society (CMS).
Wenzel was from Breslau, Silesia and attended a seminary in Berlin.
He left for England in 1807, where he presented himself to the CMS who found him suitable missionary material.
This village had been founded to accommodate liberated enslaved Africans who had been freed by the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron.
In 1818, Wenzel ran a school at which 74 boys and 72 girls attended.