The Beauty of Mwanza!

ITEM Seminar Comes To A Successful Close.

Once again, the International Training and Equipping Ministries led by Dr.Steve Van Horn from Portland Oregon has conducted a seminar in Mwanza, Tanzania which was attended by 35 Free Methodist ministers and two from the Africa Inland Church. Most of the seminar participants left with a strong feeling that God’s Word, which is eternal in it’s redemptive message to all people is the center of the Curriculum in ITEM seminars. These seminars will help them to become a strong influence and positive agents for change in this continent for what is pure, productive and godly.

Wendy Ludovici Facilitates Worship seminar in Mwanza.

Kisesa FMC-It's time to build a sanctuary for our God!

"Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish."
Jean De La Fontaine

The Maasai FMC Continues to receive blessings.

Rev.Dr.Glenn Lorenz from Arizona, USA, teaching some of the members of the Maasai FMC the Word of God.

Kisesa FMC-Let the stones roll!

A Season For Everything!

Doug Firebaugh, Author, Trainer, Network Marketing Guru once said, “The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving." I fully agree with him. I have given my best to the ministry in the last ten years. I have stretched my intellectual and physical capacity and put into practice every single ministry strategy that I knew. I have seen the Lord blessing the work of my hands together with the people that I have served with. The Lord has blessed me with a wonderful team of leaders both on the national and international level. There have been good and bad moments but like Joshua, today I can faithfully say that not one of all the promises that the Lord gave me, has not been fulfilled.

Well, In Proverbs 29:18 King Solomon says, "Where there is no vision, the people perish.” Bob Moore, The Effectiveness Coach ®, author of Turning Good People into Top Talent, adds on this and says “Vision without action is a daydream, Action without vision is confusion”. Brothers and Sisters, It’s time for me to move on. History will judge me harshly if I do not take another step of faith and achieve what I wholeheartedly believe that the Lord is leading me to. I feel that I need to make a bold move and finish my studies. So my prayer and request to all my friends is that you may join me in praying for God’s will to be done in this important step in my life.

I fully agree with Lord John Dalberg Acton who said “A wise person does at once what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing, only at different times.” On the same note, Oliver Wendell Holmes said "Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow."

Pray that God’s will may done in my life and family. Thanks for being my friend.

The following links will enable you to see and listen to some of my passions:

http://www.fmwm.org/resources/index/videos/testify_video.php
http://www.layhillfmc.org/multimedia.html

Visitors from Cornerstone & Light and Life FMC

"It takes God and friends like you to see such programs running succesfully" Bro.Mlumba seems to be telling the visitors from the West.Bro.John Davey, head of Missions in the Cornerstone FMC-UK and Rev.Dr.Glenn Lorenz from the Light & Life FMC in Arizona-USA having a light moment with Bro.Raphael Mlumba, head of the Nuru Na Maisha Study Center of the Free Methodist Church--Nyasaka, Mwanza, Tanzania.

Rev.Andrew Belshaw teaching the FMBC students.
Rev.Andrew Belshaw, Senior Pastor of the Cornerstone FMC in UK poses for a group photo with the students of the Free Methodist Bible College in Mwanza Tanzania when he visited them and facilitated a seminar on Discpleship. The seminar was a life-changing experience for all the faculty and students of the FMBC.

Gigantic Mugumo Trees Grow From Tiny Seedlings!

Like many churches in Africa, the Jellys FMC has started under a mango tree. Pastor Josephat Michael Ntampaka, the deputy National Superintendent of the Free Methodist Church in Tanzania visits the people who live near the Jellys School and shares the Word of God with them. He then invites them to join him on Sunday under the mango tree for worship. Attendance varies each Sunday. On a sunny morning he can have up to twenty people. On a rainy day like yesterday he ends up with less than 10 people in the worship service. For him, it is not the numbers that matter but his faithfulness to his calling! Like the gigantic Mugumo trees that grow from tiny seedlings, the Jellys FMC hopes to grow and become a "gigantic" church in future!

Joshua & William attend Leadership seminar.

Outgoing leader of the Maasai FMC William Joseph Ole Oongowarak and the new leader Joshua Ole Ngelin were among the 20 leaders of the Free Methodist Church in Tanzania who attended a one-week leadership seminar that was held in Mwanza. Leadership lessons from the letters of Paul to Timothy and Titus were explored.

It is never too late to learn.

For Latang Lendemi, Ongoswe Tesi and Naranta Barimba life will never be the same again. They are serious students. They want to know how to read and write their names. They want to be able to write to their friends back in Longido. But above everything else, they want to be able to read their Bibles. Because of these reasons they come to class everyday!

Maasai Literacy class in progress.

Joseph Musuma Marwa teaching the members of the Maasai FMC how to read and write. They meet everyday between 9.00 am and 12:00 p.m.Pray that a classroom may be found so that rains may not continue disrupting their learning.

MAASAI FMC GETS A NEW LEADER!

Members of the Maasai FMC praising God this morning.
Joshua Ole Ngelin was today installed as the new leader of the Maasai FMC. He takes over from William Joseph Ole Oongowarak who is going to Kalemera Empowering Lives International to learn the Word of God and some vocational skills.
Joseph Musuma Marwa, a third year Free Methodist student at the Nassa Theological College will be with the Maasai FMC for the next two and a half months. He will be doing his "term out" practical work.

He is Risen!

The LSFM celebrated the resurrection of Christ in style. The members sung songs from all the ethnic groups that were represented. Poems were recited and a skit was presented by the youth. All these had one theme--Jesus Christ is risen!



After the worship service the children were served with food!!!!!!!!!!

Kisesa FMC-Still going Strong!

On Wednesday 12th this month I managed to visit the Kisesa FMC to see how they were progressing. I found the wife of our lay Pastor, Benedicto havinga Bible study session with a few members of the church. They narrated to me how the rains had caused havoc in their area and destroyed crops. Many farmers are having to work on their farms again hoping that the rains will not repeat the destruction.

The Kisesa FMC meets in a house that is thatched with reeds on the inside and grass on top.About 22 adults meet for worship on a normal Sunday morning.

Liberty Institute Holds A Leadership Seminar in Mwanza.

The Liberty Institute of Tanzania in conjunction with the Sapphire Leadership Group of the USA organized and held a very successful seminar in Mwanza, Tanzania between April 3rd -6th. The main facilitator of the seminar, Arthur Burk, explored the theme " How a Leader Changes Values" with the participants to the maximum. The seminar participants really appreciated Bro. Burk's vast knowledge in many academic fields and requested that he returns to Tanzania again to teach them more.

The seminar was graced and opened officially by the Mwanza Regional Commissioner, Dr. Peter Toima Kiroya.