Wekense Parish

 
Wekense Parish Church

The parish church is St James' and the pastor is Rev Stephen Katemo.

Wekense parish has four churches and the catechists are:

  • Wekense: Catechist Jofrey Chedego
  • Pingo: Catechist Yona Chedego
  • Uswahilini: Catechist Jackson Chilimbe
  • Bondeni: Catechist Denisi Mazengo

This picture of Rev Stephen Katemo, and Jofrey Chedego, was taken during a visit from the Diocese of Rochester in April 2024.

Rev Katemo and catechist (3)

 

Parish link

Wekense has a parish link with the parish of South Gillingham in Rochester Diocese, UK. 

For further information, click here.
 

Community development

Wekense is one of seventeen parishes in the Diocese taking part in the Church and Community Mobilization Programme (CCMP). The CCMP is a Bible-based, guided training approach that local churches are using with their communitied to identify the resources they have, then work together to bring about long-lasting, whole-life change. As local communities work through the process, they decide which activities will bring about the most effective and positive outcomes for them given their current situations. 

Three savings and credit groups have been formed: Faraja, Mshikamano and Upendo-Mbarad. These groups have enabled many people in the community to form small business enterprises. They are selling their goods at the large weekly market and in local shops, contributing to improve livelihoods.
 

The church, in collaboration with local government, has planted a variety of trees near the village office - this so impressed the ward officer, that he sent congratulations to Bishop Given for the churces contribution to environmental conservation.

Training in climate-smart agricultural methods has motivated the village community to plant their fields using improved farming methods and diversifying their crops. They have planted maize, ground nuts, millet, sunflowers and other crops and this has improved the local economic situation. At parish level, church members have cultivated two acres of cassava and ground nuts and engaged in other small-scale agricultural projects, such as cultivating sunflowers and vegetables.

There are four savings and credit groups - Amani A, Amani B, Masimba and Upendo. Group members are saving money together, to invest in agricultural and livestock projects and to start small business enterprises. 

Picture shows the CCMP Coordinator and a team planting fruit trees.

Wekense CCMP May 2024
Contacts.

Please speak to the pastor about baptism, marriage, funerals, or Sunday services.

Written correspondence to:
Kanisa la Anglican
Wekense Parish - Dinari ya Makorongo
Dayosisi ya Kondoa 
PO Box 7 
Kondoa 
Tanzania