Bega Kwa Bega

Prayer, Presence, and Projects guide our Bega Kwa Bega companionship with the Iringa Diocese. The Scholarship and Education Working Group of the Iringa Committee focuses primarily on Projects. Through your generosity, in addition to providing scholarships for...

Eight months after completing the ELCA’s three-week missionary training in Santa Fe, I boarded a plane in Minneapolis to begin what I believed then would be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. In mid-September of that year, now 25 years ago, I began my service as a...

During the last three weeks of my most recent visit to Iringa, my time and attention was dedicated to issues of education. Together with Iringa Diocese colleagues, I had the pleasure of: Attending Form IV graduations at Lutangilo and Pommern Secondary Schools – you...

“Celebrating our companionship in song” is how Pastor Tito Kilale summarized the goal of bringing an American choir together with Tanzanian choirs. On a beautiful weekend earlier this month, 19 voices from the Saint Paul Area Synod joined 200+ voices from Lulanzi,...

I had a new adventure this past Saturday, attending the graduation ceremony for the Form Four students at Lutangilo Secondary School. The drive itself is an adventure, up and down and around mountains, crossing bridges, meeting heavily loaded trucks on narrow roads,...

Travel – first it leaves you speechless, then it turns you into a storyteller. – Ibn Battuta I’ve had travel on my brain lately. Between meeting with groups who are planning their itineraries to debriefing with group leaders who recently arrived home, I’ve had a lot...

Bega Kwa Bega is deeply grateful to Russ Hilliard and Jo Whiting who are serving in the Iringa Office. Habari from Iringa, Tanzania! Russ and I have been here since June 26, re-learning the BKB coordinator ropes after eight years since we last managed the office as...

We like to say that our companionships are supported by three pillars: prayer, presence and projects. These three practices bind us together and enrich our relationships. Many of our congregation companionships began with a commitment to provide $1,000 each year as a...