As part of our mission partnership with the Diocese of Western Tanganyika, Tanzania, we sponsor four students, Debora, Lusiana, Jonas and Joseph, at the Lake Tanganyika Theological College (LTTC). In addition to paying their fees we were able to contribute £199 from individual donations to buy them the Bibles they did not have. With gifts from other sponsors in the diocese, all the students were presented with Bibles bought in Tanzania by a team of three from Emmanuel Church Network, Cheltenham in February 2026.
Becca, Adrian and Fiona reported on their visit.
‘We visited the theological college a couple of times. Alberto who leads the theological college was often with us visiting other churches, so we got to know him well. Adrian and Fiona observed some teaching; Becca had some conversations with the tutors particularly Brighton and Cosmos.
Alberto is leading LTTC at the new site. He lives at the old site in town and is also in charge of the education delivered there. When we visited this site we saw the music school, tailoring school and computer lessons.
The new site is beautiful, they have landscaped it well with an avenue of trees and crops growing around the site, and they are keeping pigs!
Currently there are 45 students, 7 women, 9 lecturers. Last year there were 32 students. 11 are graduating this year. There should be 60 students next year.
They are building a new tutors block. There are also plans to build a larger kitchen area.
The main challenge they discussed with us was the size of the library, lack of computers and internet access. The library is small and most of the books are in English. Becca contacted SCONUL an online library which is used by students in the UK. This enables access to books and journals via the internet. SCONUL said they do not provide access to this for colleges and universities outside the UK. However, this may be something to explore through other routes. Maybe the Ugandan Christian university would be a good institution to talk with, as some clergy have studied/are studying there.
It was great to see women training there and to see some out leading churches and doing their curacy.’
Thank you all who contributed generously towards providing Bibles.