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arrow icon. Growing a School in Tanzania--One Classroom at a Time 
Children on the grounds of the Wesley Primary School that is growing one classroom at a time.

New York, NY, October 29, 2009--The fifth classroom at Wesley Primary School, Morogoro, Tanzania, has a foundation; now it needs only a floor, walls, windows, a ceiling, a roof, and equipment--in the next few months.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Children | Education | Poverty | Youth | Tanzania |
Date posted: Oct 29, 2009

arrow icon. My First 100 Days as an Individual Missionary Volunteer 
Individual Volunteer Holly Heyroth sees God at work in the children at the orphanage in Tarime, Tanzania. As news organizations marked the first 100 days of a new president in the United States, Individual Volunteer Holly Heyroth of Kansas marked her first 100 days in Tanzania. Holly has been working at Methodist Angel House Orphanage, a children's home that opened five years ago to assist with the care of 40 "amazingly strong and beautiful children."
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Children | Education | Health | Hunger | Volunteers | Welfare | Youth | Focus on Ministry with the Poor | Focus on Global Health | Tanzania |
Date posted: May 11, 2009
arrow icon. Missionaries Find US United Methodists Compare Well to Those Back Home in Africa 
Ms. Kabaka Ndala Alphonsine & Rev. Mutwale Ntambo Wa Mushidi, center. 
at Global Mission Personnel Conference, Stony Point, NY, August 2008.

September 29, 2008--A missionary couple serving in Tanzania find great similarities among United Methodists in Africa and the United States: they are both “so good, so nice, so kind, and so generous,” agreed Kabaka Ndala Alphonsine and the Rev. Mutwale Ntambo Wa Mushidi.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: International affairs | Missionaries | United Methodist Church | Congo DR | Tanzania |
Date posted: Sep 29, 2008

arrow icon. Missionary Minute:
 December 17, 2006

Sixteen years ago, the Democratic Republic of Congo initiated an evangelism project to develop The United Methodist Church in Tanzania, a country dominated by Catholics and Muslims and plagued by extreme poverty. I was invited to go as a missionary, and a lifelong dream was fulfilled.
Source: Advance
More about: Missionaries | United Methodist Church | Advance | Africa | Tanzania |
Date posted: Dec 11, 2006
arrow icon. Bishop Encourages U.S. Churches to Partner with East Africa  
A decade ago, Hutu extremists killed 800,000 Tutsis, and hundreds of thousands of Tutsis fled Rwanda for neighboring Zaire and Tanzania. Today, Tutsis and Hutus worship together in United Methodist churches in Rwanda. "It's the power of Jesus Christ," explained Bishop Daniel Wandabula, who leads the denomination's East Africa Area.
Source: United Methodist News Service
More about: Ecumenical | United Methodist Church | War | Rwanda | Tanzania | Zaire |
Date posted: Aug 23, 2006
arrow icon. Missionary Minute: Easter Day
 April 16, 2006

In Luke 15, Jesus tells a familiar parable: “Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he finds it? When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders and rejoices.”
Source: Advance
More about: Christian love | Communities | Easter | Lent | Missionaries | United Methodist Church | Advance | Partners/partnerships | Methodism | Africa | Tanzania |
Date posted: Apr 16, 2006
arrow icon. New Year’s Message 2005: A Prayer from a Heart in Pain
Inspired by the Psalms, the General Secretary reflects on the new year of 2005 in the light of current events
Source: GBGM Administration
More about: Children | Christian love | Communities | Conflict | Emergencies | Family | Global connections | International affairs | Justice | Natural disasters | Peace | Poverty | Prayers | Africa | Asia and the Pacific Islands | Indonesia | Kenya | Malaysia | Maldives | Myanmar-Burma | Somalia | Sri Lanka | Tanzania | Thailand | Bangladesh | India |
Date posted: Dec 29, 2004
arrow icon. The Foods Resource Bank: Setting Aside a Portion for God 
A growing project in Mazon, Ohio, shows the ecumenical nature of Foods Resource Bank.  Vernon Sloan’s family has owned the Sloan Family Farms for six generations. He has worked as a farmer on his land all his life. He and his wife Carol had been searching for a way to help alleviate hunger in other countries, but they weren’t sure how to get started.
Source: New World Outlook
More about: Agriculture | Ecumenical | Hunger | Peace | UMCOR | United Methodist Church | Africa | Ghana | Kenya | Tanzania | United States | Zimbabwe |
Date posted: Jul 14, 2003
arrow icon. United Methodists Make Churchwide Appeal for African Famine 
Churchwide Appeal for Southern Africa Famine

Noting the potential for mass starvation, the United Methodist Council of Bishops has issued a churchwide appeal to fight famine in Southern Africa. Funds will be directed to the United Methodist Committee on Relief's African Famine and Relief Advance #101250-4 and used to support United Methodist and ecumenical work in the region. The Rev. Randolph Nugent, chief executive of the United Methodist Board of Global Ministries, requested the appeal based on advice from UMCOR staff.
Source: United Methodist News Service
More about: Agriculture | AIDS/HIV | Donations | Emergencies | Hunger | UMCOR | Africa | Lesotho | Malawi | Mozambique | Swaziland | Tanzania | Zambia | Zimbabwe |
Date posted: Jul 15, 2002

arrow icon. Tanzania: God is With Them in the Camps 
In a place where there could be despair there instead is hope and celebration. It is a two- mile long refugee camp in western Tanzania. It is called Mtabili and it is home to 13,000 people from Burundi, Rwanda and other countries. Many have lived there for nearly a decade.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
More about: Christian love | Communities | Ecumenical | Environment | International affairs | Mission opportunities | Peace | Poverty | Refugees | United Methodist Church | War | Africa | Tanzania |
Date posted: May 15, 2002
arrow icon. Eleven New Missionaries Commissioned 
GBGM Missionaries, left to right: Peggy Emberson, John Emberson, Eluzinete P. Garcia, Sam Greening, Anne-Marie Sinbagoye, John Chikwaira, Esther Gitobu, Umba Ilunga Kalangwa, Nancy Hoffman, Thomas Hoffman A new group of international missionaries, from six countries and seven annual conferences, have been sent forth by the General Board of Global Ministries to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ through a variety of ministries. The 11 missionaries have been assigned to eight countries.
Source: GBGM Press Releases
More about: Missionaries | Brazil | Cambodia | Germany | Kenya | Liberia | Nepal | Russia | Sierra Leone | Tanzania | United States | Zimbabwe |
Date posted: Apr 05, 2002
arrow icon. This is the Day the Lord Hath Made 
Bill and Jimmye Whitfield, longtime missionaries to Africa are currently assigned by the General Board of Global Ministries to Tanazania. The share their joy of being in mission these many years and news of ongoing work as they approach retirement.
Source: Missionary stories
More about: Christian love | Communities | Missionaries | Africa | Tanzania |
Date posted: Feb 28, 2002
arrow icon. Missionaries in Tanzania celebrate debt relief  
Sunday Services under the tree at Kahangala Preaching Point Along with a selection of photos from an eight- inch stack built up over the last two years, Bill and Jimmye Whitfield send this note of rejoicing and jubilation: We continue to give thanks each day for the opportunity to represent your love and concern for the beautiful people here in Tanzania.
Source: Missionary stories
More about: Agriculture | Children | Communities | Education | Environment | Health | Missionaries | Women | Youth | Africa | Tanzania |
Date posted: Aug 21, 2001
arrow icon. Congo's leader in peace talks 
Congolese President Joseph Kabila recently met with his Ugandan counterpart and foe Yoweri Museveni to discuss ways of ending armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. "Among other things, we discussed the importance of implementing an existing ceasefire agreement," said President Kabila.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: Advocacy | Communities | Conflict | Human rights | International affairs | Peace | Refugees | War | Congo DR | Tanzania | Uganda |
Date posted: Jul 16, 2001
arrow icon. East Africa Bishop Expresses Sympathy for Victims  
Bishop J. Alfred Ndoricimpa, episcopal leader of the East Africa Annual Conference, has sent a letter expressing condolences for victims of the bombing of the United States Embassy in Nairobi.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: GBGM news | International affairs | United Methodist Church | Violence | Mission updates | Africa | Tanzania |
Date posted: Aug 21, 1998
arrow icon. Update: Africa Bombings 
Like big cities everywhere, downtown Nairobi is a crush of towering buildings, rushing people and fast, honking cars. All these factors--the crowds, the noise, the expense-- went into a decision to hold last week's meeting of the East Africa Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church outside of the capital city of some two million residents.
Source: GBGM Mission News
More about: International affairs | United Methodist Church | Violence | Mission updates | Africa | Tanzania |
Date posted: Aug 11, 1998
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