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Well, it's always a great privilege to welcome our archbishop into our midst, our Archbishop Glenn Davies who needs very little introduction. Although last time I was up here and interviewing him, I got his title wrong and I don't think I've ever really recovered. Um Glenn is

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also the president of the Moore College Governing board. And uh and so he serves among us in so many different ways in different capacities, but not least uh in that very, very important part of our life together on the governing board. Uh Glenn has just returned

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from Tanzania and I thought I'd invite him up just before he preaches. And uh if you'd be willing to just maybe share a thing or two about your trip uh to Tanzania and, and one or two things that we could pray for you before I read

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the scriptures, right? OK. I thought you were gonna interview me. I'm just gonna talk, am I? That's OK. I can probably do that. Um I uh was invited a year ago to uh open a school in a place called um Bunda in the Diocese of Mara,

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which is in the northwest part of Tanzania uh on the border of Lake Victoria uh which is a massive lake. I don't know if you Lake Victoria is the second largest uh freshwater lake in the world. And uh three countries border it, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.

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And uh it was uh I have a fairly heavy schedule and I wasn't really sure about where I should go, but I thought I should go. Uh because this particular school was uh founded with money through the archbishop of Sydney's ang the grenade. Uh It started

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about uh four years ago. So it was just being officially opened uh by myself. It started with about 20 girls. It's a secondary girls school and it is now 350 girls in four years. That's an extraordinary growth. And uh so uh I went and uh I

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went for a week in Tanzania and the bishop there and Helen Hoskins who happens to be a, well, she was ac MS missionary. Uh She now lives, she's retired from C MS. Uh She's my age. Um And she happened to be in the same class as

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I was in fourth year in Moore College along with Bishop Ivan Lee. And uh so it was great to see her. She left college, uh went to a laywoman at uh I don't think she, she might become a deaconess fairly soon, I think. Is that right?

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Anyhow, I think it's begun a deaconess. What, what would he know? Um Sorry doctor Leslie and uh and then went to Andrews Hall and spent 35 years in Tanzania. Uh She's very fluent in Swahili as you might expect after that time. And uh she's just a

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remarkable woman of God. Uh She has devoted herself to Tanzanians there and to see her in situ uh having known her personally for nearly 40 years. Uh It was just great to see her in on location. Uh She has used her own resources to buy land

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and build a house uh with a number of rooms so she can have guest rooms. And uh she's actually gonna give that uh to the diocese uh when she either eventually comes home if her health uh fails or if she decides, or God decides that she

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might end her days in Tanzania. Uh She uh she, she has done a number of things. She's um if you've ever seen her prayer diaries, she is the great involve in Girls Brigade and uh and developing young women, particularly in a country where women are often

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devalued and, and strengthen them in their skill set. So she set up a, a Girls Brigade center where girls uh come from fairly destitute situations, sometimes unmarried mothers and teaching skills and showing uh embroidery tailoring and things like that. And so I went and visited that,

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that school uh that, that college and because she saw the diy of girls coming to the Bunda girls secondary school um se secondary school, teaching in Tanzania is compulsory in English but not primary school. So if there's been no proper English in primary school, they struggle

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coming into uh into the equivalent of year seven. So she is she established this bunda this um another G a school called Shaon school, a S A primary school and a preschool which is all in English. And it was really quite um quite fascinating to say

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that's only three years old and it's already got over 100 and 50 students in it. And it just goes at the moment from preschool to year three, I think it is. So, uh this is the kind of work that she's doing. So I I my time

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in Tennessee was a great opportunity. Uh I don't how long I've got any, doesn't you can just stay there. Um It was a great opportunity and I, I planted about seven trees as I moved around the place I opened, I unveiled about 78 plaques uh opening

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places and doing things. I received all kinds of gifts. Uh Particular gift I got, which was from the cathedral was a clock with not a normal face on it, but my face on it and which my wife said it's not gonna hang in our house. Uh

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So it's a bit confronting. Uh it is a quite a peculiar clock because they had to take all the, the, the the numbers off and it was just a 1212 63 and nine, but they didn't put them in the right order when they put them back

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on. So it's a very unusual clock. Uh It's in Tanzanian time and, but the other, the great opportunity I had is was being with a bishop there and we could talk about Gaff con. Uh he's a evangelical bishop and uh and to strengthen him in his

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ministry and support him was, was a another great encouragement. Uh We in the diocese of Sydney have had a strong association with East Africa, East African revival, of course, uh in the first half of last century and uh Tanzania in particular, so to continue to strengthen

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those bonds and through the House of SDS grenade in supporting ventures like the Girls Brigade and the uh secondary school and Shalom school and I'll probably stop there has then how can we pray for you? Um I, I, the thing that I find remarkable as I

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move around the diocese that a number of people who say they pray for me. And II, I firmly believe that because that's what I'm sure that's what keeps me resilient in terms of the, the kind of things that have come across my plate and the work

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that I do. Um My, my greatest prayer request is always how I triage my time uh and the things that come across and what, what I have to handle and what I can delegate or, and making decisions along those lines. So that's, uh, that's probably the

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most important thing that I might use my time in a Godly way. I've got just as much time as everybody else does. There's no, you can't pray for more time or you could, but it's not gonna be answered. I don't think not in this life. Um,

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so you have to use your time wisely and, and that's what I think it is so that I continue to love my wife, my Children and grandchildren and serve God in the position I hold. Thank you. Thank you very much. Well, now I know what to

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get Felicity for her birthday. Glenn is going to be preaching to us from John 13 in a moment. But I thought I'd just lead us in prayer before I read that passage out to us. Father. We thank you so much for our brother Glenn and Di

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uh we thank you father for their uh ministry uh across this diocese and um in this nation in this city, in particular. And we thank you father for the way in which he blesses us too in this community by serving us on the governing board. Father.

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We rejoice in the many and great opportunities that this position gives for him to share the good news of the Lord Jesus and to see his name honored. But we are conscious too. Father of just the extraordinary demands of this office and the many things that

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come his way. And we asked father that as um uh as he's asked just now that you would give him the wisdom to know how to do what is best in the midst of these um uh competing demands. Uh Give him the courage to be able

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to discern what um will uh most effectively promote uh the glory of the Lord Jesus. So we pray for him, we pray that you would sustain he and I in this um in this work, uh we thank you father, especially just for this recent trip to

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Tanzania. And uh all the wonderfully encouraging stories of um of the work that's going on there, particularly these two new schools. We thank you father for uh those who have labored in these uh in, in this country for so long. Um like Helen Hoskins and we

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rejoice father and the, the great fruit that has come from that um that work. And uh we pray that you would greatly um uh bless these two schools and that they would be um contexts in which um the Lord Jesus is loved and known and that

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many indeed would come to a saving trust in him. Thank you as well for the partnership that this diocese has with um with uh the uh Anglican Diocese in Tanzania. And we thank you father for the um uh the opportunity for encouragement uh in the faith

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that uh Glenn was able to enjoy with the bishop there. This past week and we pray father that uh in this country um that the work that's done within uh the Anglican church, there would continue to remain faithful to your word and uh would greatly um

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honor the Lord Jesus. So father, we thank you for Glenn. We pray now that as we turn to your word, that you would give us hearts and minds that are willing to listen attentively and the will to put these wonderful truths to practice in our lives.

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We pray for Jesus sake. Amen.