Dear Friends, We are to open our new hospital here in Maseno on Friday. Welcome, if you can make a quick trip to Kenya: Boarding SchoolOne of the children I now look after did her first year of secondary schooling in a boarding school. In a discussion last night, I asked her ‘why didn’t you…

   from Jim Harries    jimoharries@gmail.com Dear Friends, I am sending this news out a little early, so as to invite you to join this webinar, to take place on 24th October! Please sign up asap and then join us. Go here AVM Webinar with Craig McCorkindale Tickets, Thu 24 Oct 2024 at 12:30 | Eventbrite…

  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 –…