The South East
of Lake Victoria began a two year training program in August for Pastors and
Deaconesses. Bishop Emmanuel
Makala, working in conjunction with the Mid-South District, the Lutheran Church
Missouri Synod, and Concordia Seminary Fort Wayne developed a
2-yr training program.
Dr. Peter Scaer
is coordinating this training that will consist of 16 quarterly courses 2-week
intensive residential sessions. The Training was
conducted in the new Negezi Training Center, initially built for an
area Mission Training Center but it has now been converted into the diocese
Training center. It is located in
a rural area outside the city of Shinyanga
There are
currently 24 men in the pastoral training program and 7 women enrolled in the deaconess training program from through-out the
diocese area. We believe this is the first
deaconess training conducted in Tanzania
Dr Peter
Scaer Concordia Fort Wayne And Deaconess Sandra
Rhein, Emmanus Lutheran Church South Bend, taught
the classes.
