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Tanzania

Tanzania Mission trip 2019

The 2019 trip will again focus on outreach to the Sukuma tribe, in a group of villages, located  in the  South East Of Lake Victoria District (SELVD). Bishop Makala will determine which area we will work in. The Sukuma are the nation’s largest tribe, comprised of 6 million people. Most of the people believe in […]

Filed Under: District News - Congregations, Missions, Tanzania, Tanzania, World Missions Tagged With: mission trip, Tanzania

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

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

Church Planting in the Southeast of Lake Victoria Diocese of Tanzania

On this Rock I will build my Church (juu ya mwamba huu nitalijenga kanisa langu) Two months after the Mid-South District mission team left the little village of Mwakidiga in May 2017 the members of that new congregation joined together to clear land, dig a foundation, make bricks and build the church you see at […]

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

Deaconess House (Nyumba ya Wadiakonia)

Deaconess House (Nyumba ya Wadiakonia)  is a mission started by the Southeast of Lake Victoria Diocese of the Lutheran Church of Tanzania. This home provides  shelter, security and a vocational  training program for young women with albinism. This is known in the Diocese as Right to Live with Albinism. This specific ministry teaches the young […]

Filed Under: Featured, Missions, Tanzania, Tanzania, World Missions Tagged With: albino, Deaconess House, Stewardship, Tanzania

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

The Second Graduation- Tanzania

Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania South East of Lake Victoria Diocese celebrated the second graduation of students from Bishop Makala Training Center on March 12th in collaboration with Concordia Theological Seminary Fort Wayne on March 12th. Seventeen pastors were ordained in the ceremony held in Ebenezer Lutheran Church Cathedral in Shinyanga. This includes three pastors […]

Filed Under: Missions, Tanzania, World Missions Tagged With: ELCT-SELVD, Tanzania

Mid-South District LCMS Tanzania Mission Trip 2017

We are making plans to make a mission trip to Tanzania, located in East Africa, below the equator on the Indian Ocean. Tanzania is one of the most stable and peaceful countries in Africa. It is a little larger than Texas with a few more people than California. This year’s trip will be to visit […]

Filed Under: Home-Middle-Right, Missions, Tanzania, Tanzania, World Missions Tagged With: Tanzania, Upcoming Mission Trip

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

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