The General Synaxis in 2009 decided to look into the possibility of extending our missionary activities to the African continent. Fr. George Vallikattukuzhiyil MCBS, the then General Councilor for missionary apostolate, took the initiative to find suitable places for our mission. MCBS Zion Province was assigned to start their mission in the Archdiocese of Tabora in Tanzania. Our pioneer missionaries reached Tanzania on 18th December 2009. They needed some time to learn the language and get acquainted with the local culture.
On 13th June 2010 our priests were entrusted with the responsibility of Makakola parish in Tabora town. On 1st October 2012 our mission was extended to Ndono, village parish with 35 substations. Meanwhile we purchased 50 acres of land in Ilolamgulu village near Tabora with a plan to expand our mission endowers beyond pastoral care. We named this EMPOWER which is the elaboration of “Eucharistic Missionaries for the Person Oriented World Emancipation and Revitalization.”
As the name indicates our aim of the project is to strengthen the people through education, health care and social empowerment. As a pioneer project we started a girls’ home which was inaugurated on 3rd July 2015 by Very Rev. Fr Superior General in the presence of Archbishop of Tabora and the Provincial Superior of Zion Province. Later on, an English medium school ZION ACADEMY was formed to provide a qualitative education for the village children. SSH sisters are collaborating with MCBS missionaries at this. ZION ACADEMY was a gateway to enter into the social life of the village people in Ilolangulu.
Now there are Several ongoing educational and social work projects for the upliftment of the poor and the abandoned. On 2 August 2015, we broadened our presence to Dodoma archdiocese, in the capital city of Tanzania, receiving the invitation of the archbishop. In Dodoma also we have purchased a few acres of land with the intention of starting some projects for the good of the people. On 18 November 2017 we extended our pastoral service to the diocese of Dar es Salaam by taking care of the Kwembe Parish. 24th March 2024 was a great day as the palm sunday and it was on that day we make a further move to extend our mission to the diocese of Lindi taking care of the kilangala parish. On 8th June 2024 we are entrusted with one more pro-parish in the archdiocese of Dodoma which was a substation of another parish. At present 12 priests from Zion province are serving the people in Tanzania in Five centers.
AFRICAN MISSION OF MCBS ZION PROVINCE 
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