David Green - Tanzania |
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Diocese of Tabora
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David spent the last 23 years in pastoral ministry in Gloucester Diocese. Before that he served for 11 years in Mount Kenya and Nairobi Dioceses. He writes:
It was a prayer request in January '03 from the Church in Sudan - "An urgent need for mission partners with African experience" - that I responded to, because I was coming up to retirement but didn't feel I wanted to retire just yet. It did not work out for me to go to Sudan, but I had been given the prompt to pray on and push doors to see if the Lord might make some use of me elsewhere in Swahili-speaking Africa. So it is that I have arrived, 2 months ago, in Tabora Diocese, under Crosslinks' "NEXT" programme - teaching in the diocesan Bible School, preaching most Sundays, giving some secretarial help, and about to take on more TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) - for which, please pray!
I have received a warm and generous welcome from the Church here, and - as is so often the case - I find that I am the learner rather than the teacher, and am on the receiving end of God's blessings as much as giving. Having said that, I have 4 grandchildren back in England, so I feel somewhat torn where I want to be.