Mabira District

The Mabira District lies to the West of the Diocesan Headquarters. To the East is the Kituntu District and to the West the Murongo district and Kagera river, to the South is the Kyerwa District.

District Pastor of Mabira (Photo: Enock Thobias)District Pastor Rev. Adrian Lwenteme
The district was started in 1979 in the same year as the diocese. Mabira District consists of 17.000 Christians, five parishes and five pastors, 37 congregations with 37 evangelists and one deacon. Rev. Adrian Lwenteme is the district pastor and also pastor of Mabira parish. Rev. Blasio Tinkasimilie leads Nyakatuntu parish, Rev. Richard Nguma Businde parish and Rev. Emmanuel Kishato leads Kishanda parish. Rev. Muberwa Buchwechwe, who has been ordained in January 2011, is parish pastor at Nyamilembe. Deacon Enock Thobias supports the district’s work.

KAD management, district leadership are discussing at the side (Photo: Enock Thobias)Planning a dispensary at Mabira
On top of that, the Mabira District runs a dispensary at the district headquarters at Ibamba. Emiliana Bwenge leads the dispensary. Due to the support of Swedish donors, the district has proposed to widen out the services, for example offering also curative and preventive services. The construction of the new and modern buildings has already started.

Life at Mabira

Mountains and valleys (Photo: Enock Thobias)
The Mabira District has many mountains (up to 1000 meters). The rainy season lasts from August to May each year and there is an average of 1.000 mm per annum. The temperature is high in the dry season and low in the rainy season, the average is about 25 degrees. Due to the long rainy season, the soil is fertile at Mabira. The inhabitants are peasants depending on agriculture for their livelihood. The food crops include banana, potatoes, cassava, corn and millet. In most cases production is for domestic consumption. Coffee is the major cash crop. Due to a poor trading policy, the coffee price has been fluctuating for many years. This has influenced the peasants’ income and development unfavourably. This also affects the district, because it lives on the offerings of its members.

Partnership

Partnership with Deanery Selters (Photo: Selters)
In 1982, the partnership with the German church district Nassau was established by Rev. Rudolf Stahl, Germany and at that time, district pastor was Rev. Nelson Kazoba. Later Rev. Kazoba became bishop. He is now retired. In 1990, the Deanery of Selters under the leadership of Rev. Manfred Spehr joined the partnership with the Mabira district. A delegation from Mabira will visit in autumn 2011 the German church district Nassau.

Goals

(Photo: Enock Thobias)
The district’s vision is committed to build a strong community at Mabira through preaching, teaching and advocacy. Therefore we provide services which will promote a sustainable development of this community:
  • Seminars on stewardship and marriage for younger people, youth groups and for leaders of AIDS-programmes
  • To construct buildings at Mabira, such as one sister’s house, two pastor’s houses for the parishes Nyakatuntu and Businde, three water tanks for Kishanda and Nyakatuntu parish and Ibamba dispensary and last but not least the completion of 16 churches at Mabira
  • To install a system of ATV set, laptop computers and a printer the district’s administration
  • To install a solar panel to the pastor’s houses at Businde, Mabira, Kishanda and Nyakatuntu
  • To maintain the Re-Afforestation Project and the New Life Project

Contact

Further information through District Pastor Rev. Adrian Lwenteme by telephone +255 78 6776421.



Text: Adrian Lwenteme