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…

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…

jimoharries@gmail.com Wanted – Book-keeper First, many many thanks to Peter Stagg. Now retired and into his 70s, Peter has been a wonderful support for over 10 years, in keeping Jim’s finance straight and keeping Jim accountable.I am looking for someone to take over this role, as from April 2025. Conditions: Pay – out of this…