Welcome to the 1418 Tanzania Eyeglass Blog!
We are serving with the East Lake Victoria Diocese . SELVD is an arid area located south east of Lake Victoria , the
population is 2,805,580 (2013) and the area covered is 50,781 Sq. KM or
19,601 sq. miles. The Diocese was created on December 12, 2012 during
the General Assembly at Macedonia Mwasele Parish at Shinyanga. as a
result of splitting the ELVD into two diocese because of the large area
in the ELVD.
SELVD has five districts: South West District (Kahama), Shinyanga
District(Shinyanga), Southern District (Maganzo), Eastern District
(Maswa) and Bariadi District (Bariadi).
SELVD has 34 parishes and 113 sub parishes. As of the first of 2013,
the number of Christians numbered are: adult: 19,046, children 30,432
and baptisms 15,025. The total number of Christians are 49,476.
VISION: The church with people living in love, peace and joy, the
people who are blessed spiritually, mentally and physically, the people
with hope of inheritance of eternal life through Jesus Christ.
The team of 10 will be serving in the Shinyanga District providing an eyeglass clinic and evangelism.
Meet the team:
Glenn and Carole Borchers
Don and Joshua Duensing
Lorrie Kirst
Jill Mueller
Rachel Wegener
Carolyn Holbird
Greg and Debby Suchyta