Dear Friends,                                                                                                             jimoharries@gmail.com My UK phone number: +447495098609 News updates below. Some very difficult news. My mother has had a very serious stroke, that has left her very confused. Some pictures illustrating some of my church-leader-colleagues in Yala, Kenya. My act of folly, trying to solve the situation of weeds growing in the gutter…

                                                                        Jimoharries@gmail.com Dear Friends, Please find my latest news below. UK / Germany programme for October / November 2025 I am, God willing, to be in the UK 2nd October to 17th November, then in Germany 17th November to 27th November. Some of my major visits are to include: Andover: 2nd to 10th October, 24th…

                                                                                                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, 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                                                                         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…

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…