Online Seminar Tanzania/Germany of UEM 2026

Online Seminar Tanzania/Germany of UEM 2026: Opportunities and Challenges of Partnerships

Friday, 06.02.2026 and Saturday 07.02.2026

 

You are warmly invited to join the Tanzania–Germany online Seminar 2026. This is an annual online space where people and partnerships from both nations come together to share experiences, ideas, and hopes for the future.

This year’s seminar invites us to reflect on the opportunities and challenges that shape our partnerships today. We are optimistic that such seminars support continuing building relationships rooted in respect, openness, and trust among partnerships groups. It is also an innovative way of learning from each other and of strengthening the ties that connect us; brothers and sisters in Christ, in a global perspective.

Through open dialogue and shared reflection, we hope to explore new ways of partnering, ways that nurture understanding, inspire cooperation, and support meaningful change for both, Tanzania and Germany.

Your voice and your experience matter! By taking part, you will help to deepen mutual understanding and to contribute to building bridges of partnership that last.

Your subscription is welcome until 02. February 2026!

Please register here 

 

Program (CET)

Day 1 — Friday, 6 Feb 2026

16:30 —17.00 Opening Teams

17:00 — Welcome & introduction to the topic

17:30–18:00 — Opportunities and Challenges of Partnerships: German Perspectives (Speaker: Dr Albrecht Philipps, Head of Ecumenical Department EKvW)

18:00–18:10 — Questions & clarifications

18:10–18:40 — Breakout rooms

18.40-18.55 — Group reports in the Plenary

18:55–19:00 — Evening prayer

 

Day 2 — Saturday, 7 Feb 2026

8.30 — 9.00 — Opening Teams

09:00–09:10 — Morning prayer

09:15 — 09:45 — Opportunities and Challenges of Partnerships: Tanzanian Perspectives 
(Speaker: Rev Dr Elmereck Matungwa Kigembe, General Secretary of ELCT-NWD)

09:45–09:55 — Questions & clarifications

10:00–10:30 — Breakout rooms

10:30–10:45 — Group reports in the Plenary

10:45–11:00 — Break

11:00–11:45 — Updates from churches in Tanzania, Germany, UEM and Partnership groups

11:45–12:00 — Closing & Blessing

 

Preparation Team

Leadership: Dr. Elizabeth Silayo, Regional Service of UEM
Klaus Göke, oikos-Institut for Mission and Ecumenism, EKvW
Yoram Karusya, Regional Service of UEM 
Dr. Ernest William Kadiva, Head of Regional Office Africa, UEM
Reuben Inganji, Project Officer Department Africa
Ute Mruck, Partnership Officer of UEM

 

This is a seminar of the United Evangelical Mission.

 

The seminar is free of charge for our Tansanian participants.
Donations are appreciated.

 

United Evangelical Mission 
Rudolfstraße 137 
42285 Wuppertal 

www.vemission.org