Bega Kwa Bega

Later this month, our Cluster Leaders will be sharing two reports with Saint Paul Area Synod congregations: the list of students sponsored by the congregation, and a financial report of companion funding for general, scholarship, and travel accounts. What will you see...

Last week, our hosts at Our Redeemer Lutheran served pie and set out additional chairs for the BKB community members who showed up on an unseasonably warm March evening to hear the news from Iringa and BKB affiliate organizations. Pastor Lusungu Msigwa, Bega Kwa Bega...

Karibuni sana – you are warmly welcome to attend a gathering of the Bega Kwa Bega community next Monday, March 11, 6:30-8 p.m. at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, located at 1390 Larpenteur Ave. E., St. Paul. We’ll be sharing news and updates from Iringa and about a...

A year ago I had the opportunity to travel to Tanzania with my wife, Christine, and Sue and Dave Klevan on behalf of Immanuel Lutheran, St. Paul. Our journey was part of the ongoing Bega Kwa Bega relationship, and we benefited by traveling with a group from Fish Lake...

Some members of the travel group were experiencing the villages, the country, and the continent for the very first time. Their morning began with a drive to a preaching point. The drive turned into a mile-long walk (one way) through the mud. After two more visits to...

The Iringa Diocese is heavily invested in providing medical care… both regionally through the Ilula Lutheran Hospital and in remote rural areas through its nine dispensaries. This month, healthcare professionals from Minnesota traveled here to practice alongside...

The road to Pommern is rocky and rough. In the dry season, our vehicle kicks up a fine orange dust that sticks to clothes and hair if you leave the windows open. In January, the muddy spots are slick and there are pools of standing water of unknown depth. The...

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13 During all three of my visits to Iringa this past year, this verse from Philippians has been a refrain, repeated in worship and during speeches at diocese events. It has been the diocese theme for...