Go Conference, the TAFES national conference, was held in Mwanza for 2020. A standout session was from Dr Charles Sokile on the call to urban ministry, ‘Go ye and make disciples… in the cities and urban places.’ Dr Sokile is a governance and development expert currently working as the Tanzania […]
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
In 2017, Tanzania Fellowship of Evangelical Students (TAFES) held several new events for associates (graduates of the ministry). At September’s Reunion Dinner in Dar es Salaam, one of the speakers was Joshua Wathang’a, a former General Secretary of FOCUS Kenya. He issued a serious challenge. There is no shortage of Christians […]
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes
Previously in this series: Feet 1, Feet 2 What is the gospel? In 2 Timothy 1:8ff Paul begins with the call to live a life set apart, to walk in the ways of God. This has always been God’s intent for us. It is a plan of grace: God’s basic orientation towards us […]
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
What might be blindingly obvious to a westerner is less clear to a Tanzanian, but it goes back the other way as well. I skyped with a homegroup in Adelaide recently and I was saying that one of the ways in which we are cultural babies in Tanzania is that […]
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes