Mwaikisabe Parish 

St Mark's Church

The Pastor and Area Dean for the Mwailaje Deanery is Rev. Andrea Mwaluko.  The parish includes three churches at Mwaikasabe, Lugoba and Zengesa.

The catechists are:
Mwaikasabe - Moses Mhindi and Yona Samueli 
Lugoba - Elizabeth Mika Paulo 
Zengesa - Saimon Luka Njitii 
 
Mwaikisabe sits close to the Diocese’s southern boundary with Dodoma. The majority of the population comes from the Wagogo, Wairangi and Masai tribes and there is a large Christian population. It has a primary school but no secondary school. The area is very dry and it is not unusual to find people busy collecting water and so being unable to attend church services.
 

Community development

The parish in one of seventeen taking part in the Church and Community Mobilization Programme (CCMP). The CCMP is a Bible-based, guided training approach that local churches are using in the diocese. As they work through the training process with their communities, they gather detailed information about all aspects of their lives and decide which activities will bring about the most effective and positive outcomes for them.

After the training, Mwaikisabe Christians and their community are motivated and putting the knowledge they have gained into  into practice to help them effectively utilize local resources around.  They are cultivating productive crops, keeping livestock and have started small-scale business enterprises.

The youth in the church used their skills to attract a choir master, who has helped them record good worship songs which they are using to praise God in many of the Sunday services. The Safina Youth Choir and Mother’s Union Choir are proud to have professional recordings on YouTube which you can find here.The congregation has grown through the vibrant music ministry and giving has increased too.

The community has also established savings and credit groups as follows: - Ushindi, Ushirikiano, Upendo, Umoja, Amani and the Tumaini group. These groups are enabling members to save money to invest in farming and livestock activities and start small business enterprises. They have also helped members to overcome difficult times because of illness, accident or the death of a partner or child.

Climate-smart agricultural training is helping farmers improve their agricultural methods - they bought fertilizer to improve the soil and invested in better quality seeds which has improved crop yields and income.

One of the CCMP facilitators has taken an active role in the local government office to advise on local development issues. 



For more information about the CCMP. Articles/514936/Community_Development.aspx

Contacts

Please speak to the Pastor about baptism, marriage, funerals, and Sunday services.
Written correspondence to:
Kanisa la Anglican 
Mwailisabe Parish - Dinari ya Mwailanje
Dayosisi ya Kondoa 
PO Box 7 
Kondoa 
Tanzania