The Central Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania
Global Mission > Tanzania

In late 1989 the Southeastern Minnesota Synod was linked with the Central Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania as Companion Synods. The relationship has developed through exchange visits, sharing teachers and renovating the buildings at Kiomboi Lutheran Bible Institute, and forming sister congregation partnerships. Learn more about Tanzania here!

Contact with your questions about our Companion Synod Relationship with the Central Diocese of Tanzania.

• Congregation Resources

  • Companion Synod Covenant with the ELCT

  • Global Mission Sunday Helps (resources for conducting services and incorporating Colombian and Tanzanian resources) (pdf format - you must have the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to read this document. Get it free at www.adobe.com) 

  • Prayer Petitions

  • Start a partner congregation relationship  

• Financial Support
  • Lutheran Institute Kiomboi - Training center for pastors, evangelists, and parish workers
  • ELCT Dispensaries - Clinics providing basic health care in outlying areas
  • Kiomboi Land Restoration: Healing the Land, Planting Seeds of Hope Project aimed at making Lutheran Institute Kiomboi self-sustaining through agriculture
  • Lutheran Institute Bicycle Program Providing gifts of bicycles to graduates of Lutheran Institute Kiomboi
  • Kijota Women's Center - Provides education to young women to help them escape the cycle of poverty
  • Iambi Hospital
  • Ihanja Technical School
  • Iambi Secondary School
  • Mwangaza Teacher Training Center
  • Educating Educators at Iambi Secondary School

• Publications

  • Tanzanian Scholarship Fund brochure (PDF) - Learn how easily you can help children and young adults in Tanzania get a quality education.

  • Lutheran Agape Social Centre brochure (PDF) - Information about the project of the Women of the ELCA in the Southeastern Minnesota Synod to support their sisters.

  • Rise Up and Educate
    Read about Kathy Bolin's trip to Tanzania and the Central Diocese' emphasis on education.

  • Global Mission brochure - Southeastern Minnesota Synod (2004)

  • Bishop Usgaard's letter about his trip to Tanzania, River Crossings February 2006 (pdf format - you must have the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to read this document. Get it free at www.adobe.com)