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Pastoral training in the South East of Lake Victoria Diocese (SELVD)

Pastoral training continues in the SELVD as the 3rd group of pastoral candidates came to Negezi training center for the July training classes. This week, Dr. Naomichi Masaki, from Concordia Theological Seminary Fort Wayne (CTSFW), is teaching classes on Christology and the Lord’s Supper for the pastoral and deaconess training programs. This was his fourth […]

Filed Under: Home-Middle-Left, Tanzania, World Missions Tagged With: Africa, ELCT-SELVD, pastoral training, SELVD, Tanzania

Church Planting in the South East of Lake Victoria Diocese (SELVD)

Two weeks and 2745 were baptized Two teams of 23 adults from the Mid-South District went to Tanzania in May for mission trips to the Southeast of Lake Victoria diocese (SELVD). Each trip lasted for approximately two weeks. The teams were made up of members from 8 Mid-South congregations and 4 LCMS congregations from other […]

Filed Under: District News, Featured, Tanzania, Tanzania, World Missions Tagged With: Africa, Church Planting, ELCT-SELVD, Tanzania, Tanzania May 2018

61 baptized Christmas day

Hello, Merry Christmas and happy prosperous New Year. The South Sudan Evangelical Lutheran Church (SSELC) has a good news to share with you brothers. On the 25th of December, that was on the Christmas day, 61 people including adults and children were baptised in one of our congregations in Nyumanzi refugee camp in Uganda. We thank […]

Filed Under: Home-Middle-Right, Missions, South Sudan Evangelical Lutheran Church, World Missions Tagged With: Africa, South Sudan Evangelical Lutheran Church, SSELC, Sudan

Bishop Emmanuel Makala meets with Council of Presidents

Bishop Emmanuel Makala met with the Council of Presidents of the LCMS on Monday, September 18. He is in the largest Lutheran diocese in the Tanzanian Evangelical Lutheran Church which has over 6.5 million members, second only to the 7 million Mekane Yesus Lutheran body in Ethiopia. He will also visit Memphis where the Mid-South […]

Filed Under: District News, Missions, Tanzania, Tanzania, World Missions Tagged With: Africa, Tanzania, Tanzanian Evangelical Lutheran Church

1263 souls were baptized

Mission trip to Tanzania 2017 This year the mission team was sent to the Maswa District of the Southeast of Lake Victoria Diocese (SELVD). The Maswa district located north of Shinyanga, has a population of 344,125 people, and is served by five pastors who serve five congregations and 13 sub-congregations. This year the mission team was […]

Filed Under: Featured, Missions, National Missions, Tanzania, Tanzania Tagged With: Africa, missions, Tanzania

Pastor Dave Tews reports on his first mission trip

I had the opportunity to go on my first mission trip with 12 others from the Mid-South District to Tanzania. This was an evangelism mission trip that took us to remote villages in the South East of Lake Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Tanzania. The one way trip each day was 2 hours over […]

Filed Under: Missions, Tanzania, World Missions Tagged With: Africa, mission trip, Tanzania, World Missions

Tanzania Mission Trip 2016

In Matthew 28:19-20 Christ commanded his disciples, “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And Surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age”. […]

Filed Under: Missions, Tanzania, World Missions Tagged With: Africa, mission trip, Tanzania

2015 Tanzania Mission Trip

This year a group from Mid-South District LCMS went to a new district of the Southeast of Lake Victoria Diocese called Meatu. Not only was it a new district but it had a new district Pastor Patrick Zengo. Patrick was ordained in 2014 after completion of his seminary training. Meatu is a hot dry region […]

Filed Under: Missions, Tanzania, World Missions Tagged With: Africa, mission trip, Tanzania

South East of Lake Victoria began 2 year training program

The South East of Lake Victoria (Tanzania) began a two year training program in August for Pastors and Deaconesses. Bishop Emmanuel Makala, working in conjunction with the Mid-South District, The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, and Concordia Theological Seminary, located in Fort Wayne, Indiana, developed a 2-yr training program. Dr. Peter Scaer is coordinating this training […]

Filed Under: Tanzania, World Missions Tagged With: Africa, Tanzania, World Missions

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