Magungu Parish

The parish church is St Mark's

St Mark's, Magungu St James Tu
The parish. 
The pastor is Rev Yohana Jimbuka. There are four churches in the parish and the catechists are:

  • St Mark's, Magungu - Cat. Terezia Makatu 
  • St John's, Gonga - Cat. William Juma
  • St Paul's, Zalanka -   Cat. Musa Chiedemi
  • St Thomas', Mambaka - Cat. Anna Augustino.


The pastor, his wife and family in 2023, with visitors from St James Church, from the UK Diocese of Rochester.
Magungu with St James Church

Community development.

Magungu Parish has been taking part in the Church and Community Mobilization Programme (CCMP) since 2018. Church members have converted their previous church into a vicarage, so that the money that they were using to rent a house for the pastor can be used towards building a new, larger, church.. Church members raised money to make cement concrete blocks, and have laid the foundations. They now need to find other materials to make bricks and continue with the building. 

The training has included bible-studies, climate-smart agricultural techniques, and the formation and mobilization of savings and loan  groups to enable members to invest in farming activities and new business enterprises.

Three savings and credit groups have been formed -The Amani group, Mshikamano, and the Umoja na Gonga group. Members have started income-generating projects and have been able to pay their children’s school fees.

Nowadays, the people of Magungu are engaging in many productive activities - the church and community worked together to raise funds and extended their overcrowded school. Seven new classrooms have been built, where children across several villages get a good education.
 

Local government officials, involved in the new building works, have endorsed the CCMP as a model for sustainable community-led development.and Magungu now has a stronger voice in influencing decisions that affect their future.


.The pictures below show the foundations of the new church and the new classrooms in July 2023 and one of the seven new classrooms in November 

Magungu church foundations
This picture shows the building works in July 2023.

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One of the seven new classrooms in November 2023.
Magungu Parish 2023
 
Contacts.

Please speak to the pastor about baptism, marriages, funerals, and Sunday services.

Written correspondence to. 
Kanisa la Anglican 
Magungu Parish - Dinari ya Mpendo
Dayosisi ya Kondoa 
PO Box 7 
Kondoa 
Tanzania