Midland Lutheran College Alumni Visit Maasai Tribe

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Students & faculty learning and teaching
Alumni visiting and serving
Leaders exchanging ideas.

Midland faculty and students have traveled to Tanzania to learn and serve during Midland’s January interterm period:

2001, 2005 & 2007—Midland youth and family ministry students traveled to Tanzania to visit ministries, live with families in villages, and share Peer Ministry leadership skills. MLC students saw amazing lives of faith and disciples who living beyond their circumstances.
2003—Students and faculty journeyed to Tanzania and Kenya for a cross-cultural learning experience in which they spent time local village life, visited schools and trade schools, and spent time with a Midland alum, John Mkenda, who lives in Tanzania.
2007—Business students helped Mwika Lutheran Bible College (now a campus of Stafano Moshi Memorial University College) establish a computer lab. MLC students raised the money for the computers and set up the computer lab as part of a service-learning project.
2008—A member of the nursing faculty led a group of students to participate in village wellness projects while based out of Machame Lutheran Hospital.

Through Midland Lutheran College’s heritage, many of its alumni have served in Tanzania, beginning with Pastor Ralph Hult, the first American Lutheran missionary to Tanzania.

Midland Lutheran College Reaches out to Tanzania

Midland Lutheran College Student Works on Village Wellness

In 2002 Midland Lutheran College honored one of its Tanzania alumni with an honorary doctorate degree. His name is John Mkenda and he graduated from Midland in 1965. Mkenda comes from the village of Kotela on the lower slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. A man of deep faith, Mkenda has devoted much of his life to serving others, especially the marginalized young people of Tanzania who have limited levels of education. MLC also bestowed honorary doctorates on Bishop Martin Shao (in 2007) and former Bishop Erasto Kweka (in 2002) in recognition of their faithful, dedicated ministry to the Church in Tanzania, especially in the Northern Diocese.

Several Tanzania faculty members have spent time on the campus of MLC, including Aiwe Mmari of Mwika Lutheran Bible College (now a part of Stefano Moshi Memorial University College) and during the Fall 2005 semester, MLC also hosted a Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Luitfried Mbunda, (more info) professor of law at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania through a program sponsored by the U.S. State Department.