Author: Jim Harries

Jim Harries serves the people of East Africa, primarily through a Bible teaching ministry using the Luo and Swahili languages. He has lived in East Africa since 1988. Jim has authored 14 books and many academic articles, with a focus on the promotion of missionary vulnerability. (Not mission to the vulnerable, although it may be that also, but mission by the vulnerable.)
  • End-month news June 2025

    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…

  • End-month news May 2025

                                                                       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….

  • Mid-month news May 2025

                                                                                        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…

  • End-month news, April 2025

                                                                                    Jim Harries, jimoharries@gmail.com Dear Friends, I have recently reflected on my regularly praying for the sick in our Coptic hospital. There are often a wide variety of sick people of different stripes. On this particular occasion and in the male and female wards that I visited, many seemed to be serious cases. Some described…

  • Mid-month news April 2025

    Mid-month news April 2025                                                                         Jimoharries@gmail.com Dear Friends, Please find some news items below. British People go to Church I find this fascinating: More people attending church in UK, says report. Ministry Opportunities and Positive Things When I cycle from my office in Maseno instead of my one-time home near Yala, most journeys are 6-miles…

  • Mid-Month news March 2025

    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…

  • Mid-month news February 2025

    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…