Category: Stories

  • KS team visits albino compound just in time

    KS team visits albino compound just in time

      The mission team from KS is back in the states and we are starting to see some of their pictures and stories via Facebook. They  purchased one month’s worth of food for 208 alino orphans when they went to visit outside of Shinyanga.  The team reports they were down to their last two days…

  • Khama experiences phenomenal growth ….adds another church

    Khama experiences phenomenal growth ….adds another church

    Kahama  is a large city of approximately 36,000 people  in the South East of Lake Victoria diocese  that hosts many Lutherans. Due to the distance and the size of the area, there are currently are three parishes, Agape, Sayuni and, Bethania serving the people. This past  Good Friday, Bishop Makala visited Khama, to consecrate the plot…

  • Hannah is baptized at 98

    Hannah is baptized at 98

    BY: Judy Irwin Murphy, NC Can you imagine what it would be like to be going about your daily chores and have a group of strangers show up on your street, come to your house and tell you of someone you had never heard of before?  These strangers are of a different color, they don’t look…

  • First Graduations Take Place at LCMS-Supported Tanzania Center

    First Graduations Take Place at LCMS-Supported Tanzania Center

          Cross Posted at Lutherans Engage the World — Engaging the Church in the work of witness and mercy across the globe in our life together by LCMS Communications.by Erik M. Lunsford Tanzanian Pastor Frank Mdindi isn’t yet used to being called “pastor.” On a Friday in March, he jotted notes during a…