About the History of YWAM Morogoro



In 1980 Sitini Kobo, the son of a village mosque leader, grown up in Muslim schools and despising Christians, had a vision.
A very bright person, arrayed with holiness and authority, asked Sitini to follow him on a journey. The journey was full of difficult experiences, but build Sitini's faith in the one leading him. At the end of the journey, Jesus revealed himself, saying "Receive Me".
Sitini did and nothing has been the same ever since. His family rejected him. For nine years they considered him dead. He eagerly studied the Bible and in time embraced God as his family. In order to serve God full time he quit his job as an electrical engineer with the government in 1987. Not knowing how to support himself, he struggled. For some time he never knew when he would eat next and slept on a pew bench in the church. But God miraculously cared for all aspects of his life.
In the midst of this difficult phase he met Sered, a Christian girl, proposed to marry her and she accepted. God continued to provide for them. They did their DTS in Mombasa, Kenya in 1990 and became YWAM staff, helping to pioneer the base in Dar es Salaam.
In 1995 they went to Uganda to attend the Foundations in Community Development School, when God planted the seeds of the YWAM work in Morogoro in their hearts.
Unknown to them, their home base in Dar-es-Salaam, realizing the need for development alongside discipleship, also considered starting a work in Morogoro. Already in 1980, a missionary, Arne Peterson, who later became YWAM's Area Director for East Africa, felt Morogoro should become a center for development work amongst unreached people groups, villages and communities. A church in Morogoro, partnered with YWAM in Dar es Salaam, and helped getting land. A gift enabled the purchase of 50 acres of land in October 1995, in the village of Lukobe. Another six acres, near the Dodoma road in the suburb of Kihonda, are the ministry- and communication center.