Tanzanian Mwombeki to Lead Germany-based International Missionary Body
Tanzanian theologian, Rev. Dr Fidon R. Mwombeki will be the next general secretary of the Wuppertal, Germany-based United Evangelical Mission (UEM).
Appointed in September 2005, Mwombeki will assume the UEM’s top position at the end of 2006, succeeding Rev. Reiner Groth. This is the first time that the organization will be led by a person from outside Germany.
Mwombeki, 45, is currently UEM Executive Secretary for Evangelism. Until the end of 2004, he was general secretary of the North-Western Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT). He studied theology and business management in the USA.
He served as parish minister in Tanzania and Sweden, and as executive secretary for mission and evangelism in the ELCT North-Western Diocese. He has been an active campaigner at global level for economic justice, and was a member of the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria from 2002 until 2004.
The UEM is an international missionary communion comprising 34 member churches in Africa, Asia and Germany. (175 words)
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