International Ministry of Jesus Tanzania
Making disciples, serving those in need, faithfully proclaiming the Word of God, and teaching others to do the same in Ecuador and Tanzania
We invite you to partner with the International Ministry of Jesus to bring water and the good news of the gospel to the Maasai People of Tanzania.
Read the story of how the International Ministry of Jesus got involved in Tanzania.
IMOJ is providing ‘Orality Training’ for Maasai believers in partnership with Ethos 360.
IMOJ is currently engaged in digging and repairing wells in Simanjiro Provence.
IMOJ has been given land to develop around the wells and in Simanjiro Province.
God continues to bring individuals and organizations across our path who desire to partner with us to bless the Maasai of Simanjiro Province with water and the good news of the Gospel.
IMOJ drilled the 4th well and dedicated it here in June 2024.
The Story of IMOJ Tanzania November 2022
Kati-Kati now has a water distribution center. They have heard the gospel and many responded after watching the Jesus film. A baptism was held in their village in March of 2023.
The first well and water distribution center was completed in December of 2022 in Sukuro. Hundreds of Maasia in this village received Christ after watching the Jesus the film.
Lamnyak shared the gospel and showed the Jesus film in this village and hundreds accepted Jesus! A team from IMOJ visited to teach and celebrate the baptism of many in this Maasai village.
In May 2023, Lamnyak took a small group of Maasai believers with him to share the gospel and the Jesus film with an isolated Maasai tribe in the Serengeti dessert. The people responded and many received Jesus as their Lord and savior.
In September 2023, IMOJ drilled the 3rd well in Morawak village (Lamnyak’s home). The people in this village have seen the Jesus film and many responded in faith and were baptized.
Lamnyak shared the gospel with the people in this village and many responded. IMOJ drilled our 5th well here on June 14, 2024.
In June 2025, IMOJ successfully drilled our 7th water well in Lemooti, a village of over 12,000 Masai.
Since IMOJ’s early beginnings in 2022, we have brought teams from partner churches in the USA to minister to the Masai through oral bible story telling.
We bring teams to tell the stories of the Bible to the Masai using the orality method.
How You Can Help
The Bush Maasai of Tanzania have limited access to clean water, churches or schools. They need wells to provide drinkable water. Each well requires an elephant fence to protect it. The Maasai also need bibles and lay pastors to help teach and disciple them. The women and children need access to health care and education.
Make a General Donation
General funds will help provide the Jesus film, bibles, ministries to the Maasai women and children, and the needs of each water distribution center (generator, solar panels, elephant fence, water tower, etc…)
Sponser a Well
One well provides water for 2000 – 3000 Maasai who currently do not have access to clean water. The installation of a well is coupled with an evangelism campaign that includes showing the Jesus film, providing bibles and discipleship training. New believers will be invited to learn the stories of the Bible through the Orality Method of discipleship.
Support an Orality Training initiative
IMOJ is offering training in the Orality method of discipleship to new Maasai believers and leaders. Orality-based methods are amazingly effective for communicating scripture through the stories of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. Various aspects of the spoken word, oral art forms and Bible storying are used to reach those who are illiterate or are oral learners by preference.
The Maasai Story
The Bush Maasai of Tanzania are one of the most isolated and primitive tribes in the world. Their way life is the same as it has been for thousands of years. They live in the wilderness as nomads, herding cattle and looking for water. The government has relegated them to the most undesirable land. The Maasai share the land with wild animals including lions, leopards, elephants and snakes. Their land is in the midst of severe drought and has minimal infrastructure. They lack access to clean water, health care, electricity, and schools. The women are burdened with carrying water to their villages. Often they walk 12 miles a day spending most of their daylight hours hauling water. The water they do find is not clean.
The Maasai practice polygamy (multiple wives). Girls are circumcised and married off as early as age 15. Boys as young as age 4 begin work herding cattle, typically working 12 hours a day and sleeping outside. Few Maasai children go to school because they are expected to work and there are no schools nearby. Consequently, most Maasai living in the bush are illiterate and speak only Maasai. The bush Maasai in this region have no formal religion. They pray to their ancestors and to nature. They do not know where their souls go after they die.
But God is doing something amazing among the Maasai in Sukuro village in northern Tanzania. Anne-Marie Touliatos, director of the International Ministry of Jesus (IMOJ), and her husband John met Lamnyak Lazaro (age 30) in Tanzania at a tourist center. Lamnyak is a Maasai warrior and son of a village chief. He learned to speak some English and he shared with them about his village and their need for water and their desire to learn about God. John and Anne-Marie shared the gospel with him and asked for his contact information.
In just three months time IMOJ, working with Lamnyak, drilled a well in a district where 3000 Masai live. The well was embraced by the Maasai as a sign that God saw and loved them. IMOJ partnered with ‘Here’s Life Africa’ to bring a team of evangelists, Maasai bibles and the Jesus film in Maasai to the village. The people came to watch the film for three nights. Over 300 Maasai attended, and 186 people accepted Jesus, including several village elders. The evangelists put the new believers in small groups called LAMP groups (Listen, Ask questions, Meditate & Pray) and are working to disciple them & train up leaders for these groups.
The first well in Sukuro Village was Dedicated on November 10, 2022. This well will provide enough water for 2000 people. Three more wells are needed to meet the needs of the remaining 6000 Maasai living in the region.
Jesus replied, “Anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again. But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.” – John 4:13-14
Pictures from the Sukuro village well installation
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