Wekense Parish
The parish
The parish church is St James' and the pastor is Rev Stephen Katemo.
Wekense parish has four churches and the catechists are:
Parish link
Wekense Parish is linked with the
Parish of South Gillingham in the UK Diocese of Rochester. This picture of Rev Stephen Katemo, and Jofrey Chedego, was taken during a visit from the Diocese of Rochester in April 2024.
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 a local church can use with its community to identify the resources they have, then, working together, 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.
The pictures below show the construction of a new Pastor's house, and new church windows, some of the projects funded by the Parish of South Gillingham, who visited Wekense in 2019.
As part of the CCMP training, the parish has planted fruit trees as part of an agricultural conservation project - see picture below.
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Rev Canon Brian Senior, Rev Christine Allen, Sue Jelfs and Maureen Cannon, from the Parish of South Gillingham, visiting Wekense in 2019.
After completing CCMP training in agricultural conservation, the parish has planted fruit trees to produce fruit to eat and sell, and to provide shade to improve the environment around people's home.
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