I am a man in my mid fifty, married with four children.  A priest working with the Moravian Church in Tanzania but also doing academic research and performing counselling activities to variety individuals and groups. I was born in the southern part of Tanzania and grew up in different places in Tanzania due to several reasons involving my parents. 


My primary and secondary education was in Mbeya and Dar-es-salaam respectively. I also attended some courses in Dar-es-salaam between 1981 and 1985 to become a qualified and licenced electrician and auto electrician respectively. Between 1982 and 1994 worked as an electrician/auto electrician in different institutions in Dar-es-salaam before joining one of the local colleges in Tanzania for a theological diploma course in 1995. Later between 2000 - 2004  attended undergraduate study at Makumira University College in Arusha  to obtain a Bachelor of Divinity Degree (BD). In 2004, joined Radboud University of Nijmegen College in the Netherlands, for further studies in which I was rewarded a Master of Arts Degree in Intercultural Theology. Later 2009, I was enrolled for PhD programme with the Open University of Tanzania up to 2013 and  successfully completed to graduate into Doctorate in Religion and Philosophy. 


My ordination as a priest in the Moravian Church was in two stages; first in August 1998 as a Deacon and later in 2008 as a Presbyter. Since then I have been serving in several parishes within the Moravian and other churches in Dar-es-salaam, Mbeya, Arusha, Morogoro and other places in Tanzania and beyond From August 2008 I was appointed to head the Chaplaincy and served as part of the Academic staff with Teofilo Kisanji University, the Moravian Church institution up to December 2010. Currently, I still work as a Provincial Board Chairperson in volunteer basis of the newly established (Under registration process) of  Eastern and Coast Province Tanzania of the Moravian Church with its head office in Dar es salaam city in Tanzania. On the same volunteer basis, I also serve as an Executive Secretary with the newly established Professional Counselling and Educational Trust which is in its initial stages.

 

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