ABSTRACT

If it is at all possible to set a date for the beginning of the East African Revival in North Western Tanzania among the ethnic group called the Haya, it should be 1939. That was the time when Dr Joe Church and a preaching team came to the Anglican Teacher Training College at Katoke, south of Bukoba, and conducted a week of evangelistic meetings. There were also Lutheran Christians who participated and were converted. This visit is considered to have sparked off the Revival in both Anglican and Lutheran churches in the area.