Former Deputy Executive Secretary for Africa made Bishop

This grandiose event took place during a colourful ceremony held in the Mwanga district in the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania on 6th November 2016. The guest of honour was none other than the regional head representing the president of the United republic of Tanzania.
In his speech, he pleaded for the church support in combatting a number of social evils among which the cultivation and abuse of marijuana, early pregnancies and abortions.

Other guests included three former prime ministers, the unsuccessful candidate to the last presidential election and present government ministers.

The honour was given to the UEM General Secretary Rev. Volker Martin Dally to feed the abundant and diversified crowd with the Word of God. He took inspiration from Psalm 37:5 and challenged Rev. Chediel Elinaza Sendoro and Rev. Timothy Jonas Msangi who in the next few minutes were going to receive their mandates at the leadership of the newly born diocese of Mwanga as Bishop and assistant bishop.
He urged them to commit their ways to the Lord, not for some time, but for good. The commitment he said, is not a halfway one, but until completion of the task. In this case, even when challenges will arise, the trust they have and the commitment in their Lord will make them look up to him in Faith like Abraham who went even without knowing where he was going. He was just obeying God who asked him to go.
While sowing the Gospel, they will meet frustration on the way, sometimes that the result is not as they expected. But they should look up to the Lord who will do everything at its appointed time.

It is worth noting that the new diocese of Mwanga was inaugurated on the eve, saturday the 5th November together with the inauguration of the head office and the cathedral.
Apart from its general secretary, the UEM delegation included the staff from the regional office as well as the vice president of the Presbyterian Church in Rwanda, rev Julie Kandema, who travelled all the way from Kigali to represent her church at the ceremony.