Tanzania

Africa

Year opened: 1992

Tanzania remains one of the poorest countries in the world. More than 36% of their 37.5 million inhabitants live below the poverty line. AIDS is also having a tragic impact on the nation as 8.8% of Tanzanians are currently living with the disease. Thirty percent of the citizens claim Christianity, 35% Islam, and 35% adhere to indigenous beliefs.

In the late 1990s Asbury United Methodist Church of Tulsa, Oklahoma launched an outreach to the Kami people, which, at that time, was an unreached people group in Tanzania. The Mission Society is now involved in a partnership with Asbury UMC and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania in an effort to reach the Morogoro mission district of this African country. God’s Word is spreading among the Kami, who now have about 30 churches planted among them, and the Masai, who now have about 40 churches. As churches are planted in villages, lives are being transformed by the power of Christ and people are delivered from spiritual darkness. In addition, through providing medical care and new, fresh water wells, community transformation is occurring.

Prayer Requests

• For newly elected Bishop Mameo of the Morogoro Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania, our partner in ministry.
• For new pastors to be raised up to lead the growing churches in the mission district.
• For help in dealing with the poverty in the region.
• For continued political stability in the country.