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Article: Bill's mission to Africa.
- Article from:
- Mirfield Reporter (Dewsbury, England)
- Article date:
- May 21, 2007
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OUR Bill has never been one to sit still for very long.
In 1970 the Reporter district correspondent Bill Jones and his wife Maureen travelled by Landrover from Mirfield to Pakistan with their three children and 13 years later they moved to Tanzania where they learnt Swahili, teaching and nursing as Church of England missionaries.
It was because of their earlier experiences in Tanzania that Bill and Maureen were sent to Issenye, a village on the edge of the Serengeti, by David Hope, then Bishop of Wakefield, in 1989.
Bill was often told he should recount his many tales in a book and so School for the Serengeti: The story of Issenye was born.
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