Author: Jim Harries

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…

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…