Category: church plant
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2017 Mission Trip Report
This year the mission team was sent to the Maswa District of the Southeast of Lake Victoria Diocese (SELVD) where Pastor Odolous Gyunda serves as the District Pastor and also pastors Amani Lutheran Church. The Maswa district located north of Shinyanga, has a population of 344,125 people, served by five pastors who serve five congregations and…
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Storm damages Busongo Church
A three-hour storm swept through Shinyanga and caused damage to many homes and injured some residents and took the life of a five-year-old child. Many houses lost their roofs. Busongo Church, a part of the South East of Lake Victoria Diocese was damaged and the roof blown off. The members built the church, laboring to make the bricks…
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Memories of my third mission trip to Tanzania
By: Chris Eggerman- Kansas City Thirteen people from the USA, ranging in age from 25 to more than 80 years old, participated in a short-term mission trip to the SELVD in May 2016. It was the first trip to Tanzania for some members of the mission team, while others have been multiple times before. We…
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Pastor Tews first mission trip
By Pastor Dave Tews, Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, Horseshoe Bend AR I had the opportunity to go on my first mission trip to Tanzania with 12 others from the Mid-South District. This evangelism mission trip that took us to remote villages in the South East of Lake Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran…