Category: Tanzania
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Itilima Outreach…..overcoming witch doctors with the Gospel
There are a number villages in the South East of Lake Victoria Diocese ( SELVD) that present challenges to ministry outreach because of the number of traditional believers that practice a belief of superstition. These villages include: Lamadi, Ngela, Mwamachibya, Nyashimo, Mkula, Sapiwi, Masewa, Dutwa, Mwakibuga, Bupandagila, Ng’wang’wali, Nyangokolwa, Gaswa, Ikindilo, Sanungu, Lyalu, Mbiti, Ngulyati,…
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Are you upgrading….do something wonderful with your old Kindle, iPad, Nook or eReader to help students in Africa
Every year we travel to Tanzania on a mission trip. One of the schools we always visit is the Mwaudi Lutheran Secondary School, a boarding school open to secondary level students regardless of faith. Although they take all classes in primary school in Swahili, they take all their classes in secondary school in English. They…
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A doctor in training? Children care for one another as their way of life
The mission team snapped this precious picture of a 3 year old girl removing an Acacia thorn from her older brother’s foot. This is not unusual for her to have such a skill. You see very young girls with a baby brother or sister on their back. They take care of their siblings and…
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South East of Lake Victoria Diocese is growing
To connect all people to Jesus so that they can inherit eternal life, through preaching the Gospel in word and deeds with great emphasis on God’s Word as it is in the Bible and Lutheran confessions as it is in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania South East of Lake Victoria Diocese. Photos by Erik…