Joram Ibrahim, ECLEA-Tanzania national coordinator
Allow me to give you a brief report of our October & November programs.
We are in the last beach of our diploma classes schedule at Tanga, Maramba, Katesh Mbulu, Arusha and Dodoma 2025 diploma classes if all goes well we expect to have a number of them graduate early February. Other diploma classes which are Duga Maforoni, Kona Z, Kibaha, Mwanza and Katoro might graduate mid next year, as they still have a number of courses to go. On these two final months students apart from taking their last courses but also will defend their research paper “thesis” as a requirement for graduating. We have already started our degree program at Maramba, we expect to start two more in January at Tanga and Mbulu. We are in the process of completing the enrolment of degree students in these two classes.
Our country went on a big riot demonstration on 29th October and some days passed. People protesting against government malpractice and election drummer. Armed forces are said to kill several thousand activists majority of being youth. It is said also that police invaded several homes and killed people on their homes, then took away the dead bodies to unknown places so as to hide the truth, leaving a number of families mourning the death of their beloved ones, denied the dead bodies for family burial respect. It is also said to happen in some places that the police force ordered medical practitioners not to give treatment to injured parsons but lock them to the mortuary. Now people are very furious, and are planning another demonstration on 9th December. May you pray for our country so that the righteousness and truth should rule our country.
May the Grace of the Lord be with you,
Joram
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Joram Ibrahim, ECLEA-Tanzania national coordinator
August
We have been running well with our diploma course as per our curriculum. Four classes in Tanga region which are Tanga class, Horohoro class, Kona “Z” and Maramba clase. Three clases in Manyara region namely Mbulu class, Magara Class, and Katesh class. Two in Mwanza region urban and rural. One in Pwani region namely Kibaha and Buseresere in Simiyu region.
I taught Biblical Translation and Expository Preaching in Tanga class, Leadership and Ester in Babati Biblical Theology, Old Testament and New Testament. My colleagues also went to other places teaching other subjects. Many are testimonies about changes of our students and their congregations due to the application of what our students learned.
I thank God that out teaching staff team is excelling well becoming expert in a certain specific subjects. I respect the great job done by them as per testimonies release as feedbacks from the teaching field.
We have registered ten students for bachelor degree course for Maramba degree class and twelve students for Mbulu class.
Be blessed
Joram
Tz
February
We have done a number of classes in different places and also graduation in Babati on Saturday 15th. We had a total of thirty graduates from Dodoma, Tanga, Magara and Mbulu class respectively. We had Babati District Commissioner as the guest of honor, who brought his assistant to officiate the ceremony on his behalf. Government leaders are appreciates the work ECLEA is doing, and we have been promised a peace of land 'plot' for building ECLEA’s teaching infrastructures.
In February I taught Biblical Theology and Biblical Literacy OT & NT in Tanga class. Mwaisaka did the same in Maramba while Lazaro did Church and Ruth at Horohoro and Kona Z classes respectively. All these four are in Tanga region. We have classes in Mwanza and Geita where Paul Chaba taught James and Habakkuk in both classes. Paul Mdimi went to Katesh with Mark 1 & 2 and Leadership course in Arusha. Julius went to Magara to do the final class before graduation.
We have more to do this month as we postponed some classes in February for graduation sake. The Tanga class rans this week, we will have four other classes next week, we will then have three other classes in Manyara third week, then Arusha Mwanza and Geita one class each.
We have also made up our mind to start a bachelor degree program, any time from mid this year. We have been discussing about a curriculum, we will have some additional subjects to the diploma we already have for a degree program. We propose that you launch it when you come.
Joram Ibrahim
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Joram Ibrahim, ECLEA-Tanzania national coordinator
SUMMARY OF ECLEA IN TANZANIA
Should I tell you a little more about how far ECLEA has taken us through as while working lifting ECLEA up. After many years of conferences, we have now successfully registered ECLEA Tanzania which is a bible institute. Our first intake was 2022, with three classes. We then went with six academic classes in 2023, and ten academic classes this year 2024.
In all our programs students cover for their cost of books and food, plus additional amount to cover other running costs. While you has been supporting transport, accommodation and food for ECLEA teaching staff, for the first and second year. For 2024 we requested your support for six out of ten academic classes staff team support, and we have successfully been doing the rest for. Knowing the importance of sustainability, we expect to run twelve classes in 2025 of which we will ask for your support on our teaching staff on transport, accommodation and meals for six classes, while we take other six for the same. We also plan for few conferences as a tool to establish classes.
Tanzania covers almost the total sum of all East African countries making the traveling cost become a bit higher. Yet we need to learn from our colleague’s experience, of anything that can give us the way forward. Anything we can do as we take over of the ownership of ECLEA TZ by decreasing your financial support by increasing ours.
Be blessed,
Joram
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FEBRUARY-MARCH
For February and March, we planned for six All African Conferences of which we managed to do five. Sanare did Habbakuk in Hanang, Mwaisaka did Timothy at Maramba, Mdimi is going to Kibaigwa to introduce ECLEA and go through the summary of our main subject courses. Instead of Songwe and Mbeya where we did not go, Sanare went to Magara where he did James, and I am just coming back from West Kilimanjaro where I did Biblical Theology.
In 2022 when we started we had six teachers who run three classes. 2023 wo doubled both no of classes as well as number of teachers from three to six classes and six to twelve teachers respectively, losing one teacher and interpreter, brother Michael Nyangusi who passed away, made us finish last year with eleven teachers. We have ten classes this year and sixteen teachers, this means we have added four classes and five teachers.
As our bible school is concerned, we have a monthly program of one week in eacr class doing two subjects then three other weeks researching and writing as post session assignment of the studied subjects.
I taught Biblical Theology and Expository Preaching at Arusha and Tanga respectively. Lazaro went to Maramba with James and Jonnah, Mdimi was in Mwanza and now going to Dodoma for the same. Sanare in Mbulu while Julius in Magara. Bishop Sheggar is on his way to Katesh, where he will teach Biblical Marriage and Forgiveness and Reconciliation starting tomorrow. Also Bishop Sumaye for Riroda, Anthony Mwaisaka and Kelvin for Horohoro with 1. Timothy and James respectively.
We always have fixed programs for our classes in terms of weeks from Monday to Saturday, being first week of the month second week, third and fourth week, but this time we are skipping the fourth week of March and the first week of April due to Passover eve. We have many classes this week we will also have many classes the second week of April as we will skip the first week.
Good enough is that, with your facilitation and our means, we managed to do all ten classes we planned plus five All African conferences, which means we missed one conference. Our team is exited as they themselves learn when teaching, they have their own testimony as well as testimonies from students they teach. We are working on keep on taking these ten classes to the end for glory of Jesus.
Blessing to you and all ECLEA supporters.
Joram
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