Bega Kwa Bega

Fifteen congregations are sending delegations to the Iringa Diocese starting in June. Our BKB Travel Team is assisting, planning itineraries, securing reservations, calculating budgets, and mapping out routes. As travel group leaders gather this week to plan trips...

Earlier this month, we shared news from Iringa at two gatherings. Along with news from the diocese and congregational companion highlights, we heard from the nine organizations we call Bega Kwa Bega Affiliate Partners. While administratively and fiscally independent,...

Bega Kwa Bega congregations have been saying it for years – “How do we get younger people involved in our companionship?” We know that global travel changes one’s perspective and that cross-cultural experiences in young adulthood can change the trajectory of a...

Supporters of Bega Kwa Bega know that scholarships are a critical part of our vital partnership. That is certainly the case for BKB affiliate Friends of Huruma. Founded in 2016, Friends of Huruma provides financial support for the Huruma Centre Children’s Home in...

The Bega Kwa Bega team has been driving quite a few kilometers this month as we visit project sites and new parishes. Our rugged Land Cruiser needs a car wash at least once a week – inside and out - after traversing rural roads during the rainy season. I’m grateful...

Pastor Msigwa supports our practice of presence in so many ways. Recently he sent a packet of New Year’s greetings, letters from parishes for their U.S. companions, translated from Swahili to English. Here’s one of those letters, from a new parish, Ilutila, addressed...

Iringa has a new traffic light. It’s on the main road, at that busy intersection with the market area on one side and the bus station on the other. Another new addition since I was here in October are the series of shops being built along the empty lot adjacent to the...

Happy New Year! Heri ya mwaka mpya! Greetings from Iringa, where I’m enjoying warm weather that alternates between grey and overcast with a good soaking rain, and blue skies and sunshine, all in the same day. As we enter a new year, many of us take the opportunity to...

When talking about our companionships and the commitments we make to one another, Bega Kwa Bega leaders settled on the “Three Pillars” of prayer, presence and projects. These are the foundational promises of our life together. During Bishop Lull’s trip to Iringa a...