randall & faith stubbs, missionaries

Music for Evangelism: Capacity building and ecumenical relations AT TUMAINI UNIVERSITY MAKUMIRA IN TANZANIA, EAST AFRICA

Randall Stubbs and family (Faith, Marissa, Bless) are serving in the Lutheran Church in Tanzania through:

1. Teaching formal music programs (Certificate, Diploma, Bachelor levels) at the university,

2. Teaching and practical skills in workshops for music to pastors, evangelists, and church musicians that cannot qualify or afford formal academic studies,

3. Training in sound systems, stage lighting, recording production for improved technical production of services, concerts, and other events,

4. Producing resources for the church (new hymnal in 2022, now recording of all 515 songs in the hymnal to assist those that do not read music notes),

5. Demonstrating positive ecumenical and inter religious relations through the Cultural Arts Centre of Tumaini University Makumira.

“Pole pole ndio mwendo”

— Swahili proverb

The Stubbs family came to Tanzania in 2006 as volunteers to help start the music degree program at Tumaini University Makumira. For 10 years it was the only music degree program in the entire country of 61 million people (2022 census). Starting with 4 students, 2 borrowed classrooms, 1 text book, 1 acoustic piano and 2 trumpets, the program has now grown to include 63 students, 8 classrooms, performance space, eating facilities, traditional houses, instrument exhibits, music library with 6,000 books, and more. Bwana asifiwe! (Praise to God!).

ALWM connected with the Stubbs family in 2023 as they became Global Workers of North American Lutheran Church. We are thankful to be working with these seasoned and fruitful missionaries!

You may contact us through email (stubbsrcs@icloud.com) and WhatsApp (+14142410649) and follow the Cultural Arts Centre through Instagram (cultural_arts_centre), Facebook (/cacproj) and through our website (www.cac.ac.tz).