Jimoharries@gmail.com Dear Friends, Present and Upcoming As I write, I am daily teaching a group of 31 trainee Tanzanian pastors to know how to preach. This is on a certificate level course. The wonderful side of this, is that these are men (and a few women) who have ongoing leadership responsibilities in their churches….
Jimoharries@gmail.com Wonderful Church Fellowship Visit A church fellowship visit I made on 10th July was a wonderful example of the fruitfulness of my theological education ministry to indigenous churches … After 10 miles of cycling, I arrived at the home of the bishop, long crippled by polio. He was, as usual, sat in his…
Jimoharries@gmail.com Travel Plans – Tanzania / Uganda I am, God willing, to travel to Tanzania 25th July, to attend a graduation ceremony on 26th July, then to teach on ‘how to preach’ at the Mennonite Bible college from 4th – 16th August. I may on my way back, pass through Kampala to visit some…
End-month news June 2025 jimoharries@gmail.com Grooming Gangs in the UK I have just been reading of Baroness Casey’s report on the grooming gangs that were (and perhaps still are) creating havoc with British girls in many parts of the UK. I welcome what she has to say. I encourage interested people to have a…
Dear Friends, Here’s an illustration of termite damage being done in my new house. One morning … suddenly termites have built with this mud behind a socket and higher up on the wall! (I am not yet back home, but this is a picture I was sent of in my home.) Sharing in Poverty To…
Jimoharries@gmail.com Back to Narnia The Narnia feeling is often strong when I come to Tanzania. Especially when I come up the hills to a place called Mbulu. It can seem like a lost world … in which much still goes on much as it did hundreds of years ago. That is only partly true….
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…
