End-month news June 2026 jimoharries@gmail.com Dear Friends, Being in UK has given me opportunity to spend time with friends, especially those living near my mother’s nursing home: Mum in Deep Trouble Mum’s clearly in deep trouble. She very rarely talks, doesn’t understand what’s going on around her, in a world of her own, spending…
Jimoharries@gmail.com Dear Friends, Please find my news below. With Mum On the left, my sister with Mum. It is beautiful to watch one’s sister in action caring for her mum! On the right, myself with mum lying in bed. Mum is thinner, walks less confidently, and talks less, than she did when I saw…
jimoharries@gmail.com Dear Friends, Doing it the Other Way Around! I was struck by a thought recently. In the West, we try to structure the physical world in such a way, as to render people emotionally satisfied. In Africa, we are trying to render people emotionally satisfied, so as to be effective in the physical…
Mid-month news May 2026 Jimoharries@gmail.com Dear Friends, To support Jim financially through stewardship services, UK, click on this link. Kima International School of Theology (KIST) Many of you will know, that I taught at Kima International School of Theology, P/T, from 1996 to 2011. This theological school is about 10 miles from where I…
End-month news April 2026 jimoharries@gmail.com I am one of the contributors to this blog-discussion of how to be charitable to Africa in a helpful way. Our cat decided to have her kittens in this bag under a bed in my house. June Visit to the UK I have made arrangements to spend June in…
Mid-month news April 2026 Jimoharries@gmail.com Dear Friends, To UK for June? I am planning to come to the UK in June, if I can find somewhere to stay within easy travelling distance from Fareham. Mum is in a nursing home in Fareham, Hampshire. I want to be near her, so as to spend time…
Dear Friends,Please find various news items below. Luo TeachingHere is the small crowd I was with on 2nd to 5th March for a Wednesday evening meal. Alex is my student who is learning the Luo language, first on the left. His wife is taking the picture. Back in KenyaAfter 20 days in Tanzania, I arrived…
Jimoharries@gmail.com Dear Friends, My Two Weeks of Teaching I completed my two weeks of teaching in Tanzania, on 27th February. I taught on the Work of the Holy Spirit to 17 students at the Mennonite college. The teaching went well. This is a picture taken at the Mennonite church at which I worshipped in…
jimoharries@gmail.com Dear Friends, I write while engaged in two weeks of theological education under the Tanzanian Mennonite church, based in Musoma, that is about 100km south of the Kenyan border. I am teaching on the Work of the Holy Spirit, to a group of 17 students. Widening Cultural Gap I sometimes reflect on the…
jimoharries@gmail.com Myself and fellow missionary, Gord Sawatsky, took three days to cycle to and on islands in lake Victoria, Feb. 2026. Cycling to and Around Islands in Lake Victoria Gord Sawatzky and myself took a ‘cycling holiday’ 2nd to 5th Feb. 2026. On our first day, we cycled about 87 km from my home,…
