Our Partner: Kikwe Congregation - Tanzania, Africa
Resurrection, along with our sister congregation Reformation in Milwaukee enjoys a unique partnership with the Kikwe Congregation in Tanzania. This ministry is part of the ELCA partnership with the Meru Diocese located in the northeast part of the country.
In July 2011, members of both congregations traveled to Tanzania to meet our partners, and get to know them in person. We worshiped with them, attended choir concerts, and even stayed with Pastor Pallangyo and his family. We felt their love and generosity and strong appreciation for the ministry of the churches of Meru. We visited schools, a hospital, an orphanage, a rehabilitation center, a farm project, and a Maasai village. They help those in need cope with drought, hunger, malaria and HIV, and transportation difficulties.
We also learned about Tanzanian culture, through safari in national parks, shopping in Arusha, and talking to people as we went from place to place. Some of us also stayed to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.
Planning will be starting shortly for a return visit, hopefully within the next year or two.
Our partnership is evolving. Communication is challenging due to limited computer and network infrastructure, but our support of those who come from a different culture but share a common faith is very rewarding.
In July 2011, members of both congregations traveled to Tanzania to meet our partners, and get to know them in person. We worshiped with them, attended choir concerts, and even stayed with Pastor Pallangyo and his family. We felt their love and generosity and strong appreciation for the ministry of the churches of Meru. We visited schools, a hospital, an orphanage, a rehabilitation center, a farm project, and a Maasai village. They help those in need cope with drought, hunger, malaria and HIV, and transportation difficulties.
We also learned about Tanzanian culture, through safari in national parks, shopping in Arusha, and talking to people as we went from place to place. Some of us also stayed to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.
Planning will be starting shortly for a return visit, hopefully within the next year or two.
Our partnership is evolving. Communication is challenging due to limited computer and network infrastructure, but our support of those who come from a different culture but share a common faith is very rewarding.
Please enjoy this video clip of the Maasai Choir
This clip was shot by RLC member Pam Crawford in the Summer of 2011
The Maasai Creed (used by our partner congregation in Tanzania)
We believe in the one High God, who out of love created the beautiful world and everything good in it. He created human beings and wanted them to be happy in the world. God loves the world and every nation and tribe on the earth. We have known this High God in the darkness, and now we know him in the light. God promised in the book of his word, the Bible, that he would save the world and all nations and tribes.
We believe that God made good his promise by sending his son, Jesus Christ, a man in the flesh, a Jew by tribe, born poor in a little village, who left his home and was always on safari doing good, curing people by the power of God, teaching about God and people, showing that the meaning of religion is love. He was rejected by his people, tortured and nailed, hands and feet to a cross and died. He was buried in the grave, but the hyenas did not touch him, and on the third day, he arose from that grave. He ascended to the skies. He is the Lord.
We believe that all our sins are forgiven through him. All who have faith in him must be sorry for their sins, be baptized in the Holy Spirit of God, live the rules of love, and share the bread together in love, to announce the good news to others until Jesus comes again. We are waiting for him. He is alive. He lives. This we believe. Amen.
We believe that God made good his promise by sending his son, Jesus Christ, a man in the flesh, a Jew by tribe, born poor in a little village, who left his home and was always on safari doing good, curing people by the power of God, teaching about God and people, showing that the meaning of religion is love. He was rejected by his people, tortured and nailed, hands and feet to a cross and died. He was buried in the grave, but the hyenas did not touch him, and on the third day, he arose from that grave. He ascended to the skies. He is the Lord.
We believe that all our sins are forgiven through him. All who have faith in him must be sorry for their sins, be baptized in the Holy Spirit of God, live the rules of love, and share the bread together in love, to announce the good news to others until Jesus comes again. We are waiting for him. He is alive. He lives. This we believe. Amen.
Kikwe Photo Gallery
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