Dear Friends of Africa, January 15, 2013 Here in Magamba, in the Usambara Mountains of Tanga region, we had hopes of starting a secondary school for African girls, but the barriers to the idea of educating girls were mighty. Our local Bishop expelled me from the diocese on two occasions, but for some unexplained […]
JUNE 2012 Dear Friends of Tanzania, When I recollect the events of this day what comes to my mind are the words of the Gospel of St.Luke beginning “The angel of the Lord came”… and here begins our Tanzania, Lushoto version. Last Monday I was to attend a meeting […]
Dear Friends of Africa. February 2012 When I first came to Africa in 1960 as a novice missionary I was informed by a veteran of some decades in the missions that things were not like they used to be and the tried and true ways of doing things were showing the strains of novelty and […]