Friendly Planet Missiology

22/01/2026

The FPM 2025 Year In Review letter is finally here!

http://www.friendlyplanetmissiology.org/blog/2025-year-in-review

12/01/2026

The FPM family grieves the passing of Rev. Maxime Mbayo Mwepu Mujinga (March 1955 – Jan 2026), who served for many years as the Conference Evangelist for North Katanga. A scholar with graduate degrees in Leadership and Hebrew Bible theology, he taught at several institutions in the region and worked heavily on the Kiluba Bible translation project, as he was fluent in French, English, Swahili, and Kiluba and had studied Hebrew and Greek.

(You may remember when Biking Bob was campaigning to raise funds for the conference evangelists' initiative to travel to remote locations and lead trainings and distribute Bibles to church leaders who could not afford them. If you read Taylor's published dissertation, Decolonizing Mission Partnerships, you would have found many of Rev. Maxime Mbayo's insightful observations and words of wisdom in the interview sections.)

21/12/2025

Happy Holidays from the Friendly Planet Family! Our end-of-year letter, including 2026 fundraising priorities are in the works. A few big announcements include: Rev. Joseph Mulongo was elected this fall as the Bishop's Representative for the newly formed Upemba Annual Conference, Rev. Dr. Taylor Denyer begins her tenure on the UMC's Judicial Council next month, and the grand opening ceremony for the Rev. Dr. Bob Walters Memorial Church will be in 2026!

25/05/2025

Worship and praise at the Tanzania Annual Conference

25/05/2025

25/05/2025

The opening service of the Tanzania Annual Conférence.

01/02/2025

Praying for DRC.

United Nations agencies on Friday called for an end to the violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as fighting between Government forces and the Rwandan-backed M23 armed group expands.

01/02/2025

Love and do all the good you can.

22/01/2025

The FPM family grieves the passing of our dear friend Denver Thornton, whose financial generosity helped build the El Dorado Nursing School and launch our scholarship program for female students. Our hearts are with Robin and the entire Thornton family in these difficult days.

A portrait of Robin and Denver Thornton revealed in the classroom for 1st year students in gratitude for their considerably large financial gift to the construction project.