Jim Harries      Glasses Found! My glasses slipped out of my pocket, months ago, as I was riding in a matatu (local minibus, means of public transport). I knew I would never see them again … Meanwhile, someone kept shouting at me to stop as I cycled through our local market centre. I ignored him….

     Jimoharries@gmail.com (My news is archived here: jim-mission.org.uk ) Christianity in Africa I confess, that I often consider myself to be a ‘trend leader’ when it comes to comprehending and communicating about Christianity in Africa. This is simply because I am not aware of many others who have made the efforts that I have to…

Mid-month news September 2024   (jimoharries@gmail.com) Dear Friends, Receive this news from Cape Town in South Africa! (Picture, from missions’ conference. Myself on the right.) Travelling Around I began my trip on 22nd August. I am due to get back home on 19th September. My first day of travel, 22nd August, I went to search for…

End-month news August 2024.    jimoharries@gmail.com News Archive: jim-mission.org.uk Dear Friends, Greetings from Kenya. Give thanks for a ‘solid’ hard working month! In between evangelism and discipleship in the villages, I have been working hard preparing presentations that I am to be giving in South Africa, the first on the 27th August and the last on…

                                                        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 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…

Dear Friends, Give thanks, that I have travelled safely back to my home in Kenya, despite rumblings – as you probably know, there’s been a lot of unrest around the country as a protest to tax-hikes. I look back on a very fruitful 2 months in Tanzania, and thank you for your prayers. I have…

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 (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…

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 –…

Mid-month news May 2024By Jim Harries, 10th May 2024 jimoharries@gmail.com See this video https://youtube.com/shorts/mYqXzRtICtg?feature=share for dramatizing of Palm Sunday at the Coptic church in Maseno. I often teach the Bible to many of those involved in this drama. ‘No Bible Schools in Kenya’ ‘There are no Bible schools in Kenya at which I can teach…

Vulnerability in Practice Many of my readers know that I am very keen to promote ‘vulnerable mission’. (If you didn’t know that, then now you do – see vulnerablemission.org.) A benefit of this became evident on Saturday 13th April … I attend a particular indigenous church periodically (once every few months). I have done so…