jimoharries@gmail.com Dear Friends, Appeal I am grateful to those who have offered to assist me with supplementary funding. Please make your donations to here:  https://www.stewardship.org.uk/partners/jimharries or write to my financial manager Peter Stagg at his email address here: peterdavidstagg@yahoo.co.uk Wouldn’t get Dizzy! One of the churches I periodically visit, so as to share the Gospel…

                                                                                Jim Harries, jimoharries@gmail.com Dear Friends, You will know, that on 26th March, a team of Kenyans, mostly police officers and some government officials, did a kind of ‘sting’ operation on me at my rural home in Kenya. They had been sent by the UK, on suspicion that I was abusing, grooming, and trafficking children….

Mid-month news April 2025                                                                         Jimoharries@gmail.com Dear Friends, Please find some news items below. Breaking news: Here is an article commenting on this investigation conducted on me, produced by the AVM (Alliance for Vulnerable Mission). Entitled: Statement on investigations against Dr Jim Harries Breaking British Laws while in Africa Perhaps it’s never been so difficult…

Dear Friends, Snow?! I was amazed, and am still puzzled, by something I saw from my bus, as I travelled to Nairobi from my home, on 11th March. I took a picture through the windows of the bus, of what seemed very clearly to be a snowy scene! This was far from any of Kenya’s…

Jimoharries@gmail.com Dear Friends, Book ReviewI am grateful for the latest reviewer of my book on antiracism, that you can find at this link: https://www.academia.edu/127884177/Comment_on_How_Western_Anti_Racism_Harms_Africa_and_How_We_Can_Do_Better_by_Jim_Harries_Chichester_Faithbuilders_2021_206_pp_12_ISBN_978_1_9131_8164_2 . The reviewer, a South African who I recently met in the Cape Town area, Peter Franks, states the following: “ Dr. Harries’ book has been so difficult to fully come…

From Jim Harries Dear Friends, I have just come back to Kenya from Tanzania. I went on 8th Feb., and came back to Kenya on 22nd Feb. My major occupation, was two weeks of teaching at the Mennonite Theological College of East Africa, now renamed, the Mennonite College of East Africa. I taught the Pauline…

Jim Harries, jimoharries@gmail.com Dear Friends, Transition Celebrations a new Director for the AVM (Alliance for Vulnerable Mission)Two celebrations, both entirely on-line, were enjoyed by a total of about 70 people, many of them mission scholars, and others very concerned for spreading of the Gospel of Jesus to Africa, Asia, and beyond! The first one was…

jimoharries@gmail.com Wanted – Book-keeper First, many many thanks to Peter Stagg. Now retired and into his 70s, Peter has been a wonderful support for over 10 years, in keeping Jim’s finance straight and keeping Jim accountable.I am looking for someone to take over this role, as from April 2025. Conditions: Pay – out of this…

Click on this image for a short video of a church I reached out to earlier this month. The event, was this particular branch coming under a different denomination. Each denomination has its own flag, with its name on it. The congregation processed up and down the road dancing and singing, to publicise the fact…

jimoharries@gmail.com Happy Christmas to all! I invited an Egyptian who was staying here alone, to accompany me on a walk. As we set out, the sun was shining, and I assured him it couldn’t rain. He had a waterproof phone, so could take this ‘action’ picture when we were poured on … English in Church…

Mid-month news December 2024 Dear Friends, email: jimoharries@gmail.com Please pray for my mother. She’s still in hospital in Basingstoke, UK, as I write … Note this event, 6th Feb. (There will be a similar event in the German language the same evening.) Details pending … watch this space. (Participation will be by invitation only, but…

Dear Friends, My colleagues, Dr. Marcus Grohmann and Frank Paul, have prepared this video about vulnerable mission. The original in German is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WZsSDCbrI0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WZsSDCbrI0 (You can set it up to show captioned translations from German to English.) The title of the video is: Über Chancen, Anforderungen und Grenzen Verletzlicher Mission: Ein Praktiker erzählt, which…