Mid-month news August 2024

                                                        jimoharries@gmail.com For archive of Jim’s news, and other information: jim-mission.org.uk (Above image, with bible students, Tanzania, June 2024.) Old Lady’s Funeral I was struck recently by the discourse at the funeral of an old lady. This old lady had a stroke months before. Now there were questions as to whether she had been…

end-month news July 2024

End-month news July 2024 jimoharries@gmail.com Dear Friends, A convent at Maseno. This image illustrates the intended final appearance of a new building being constructed here on the Coptic Orthodox compound in Maseno, Kenya. Builders are working incredibly hard, often late into the night. To my understanding, The building is intended to host Coptic sisters, and…

end-month news June 2024

End-month news June 2024       From Jim Harries, +254721804282 Dear Friends, I have been at a Mennonite Bible college (pastoral training college) since 11th June 2024. Classes began on the 17th June. I now have nine students, seven young men and one woman, I guess average age late 20s, in my class. The Mennonite college is…

Mid-month news June 2024

Mid-month news June 2024 (from Jim Harries, +254721804282) Dear Friends, I am planning to present a paper at a mission’s conference in South Africa, 28th to 30th August 2024. I hope to be there together with the research coordinator of the Alliance for Vulnerable Mission, Dr. Marcus Grohmann, who is also to present. Amazingly, the…

End-Month News May 2024   

Reports from Jim Harries, now in Babati (between Arusha and Dodoma) in Tanzania. Promoting Development in Africa‘Wow, that is it’! I thought, when I came across this suggestion. The suggestion was, that the difference between ‘developed’ and ‘not actually developing’ people these days, is not primarily technology, political system, ideologies, education, etc. It is –…