About our church

A small congregation with long roots.

Ngusero SDA Church has worshipped on this hillside since 1962. We are part of the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist family — seventeen million believers across more than two hundred countries — but our daily life is small, local, and ordinary.

A short history

How we got here.

1962

A house meeting begins

Six families begin gathering on Sabbath mornings in a home near the Ngusero spring. They study the Sabbath School lesson and sing without instruments.

1968

First sanctuary built

The congregation, by then nearly sixty members strong, raises funds and builds a modest brick sanctuary with a tin roof and seven wooden benches.

1981

Primary school opens

Ngusero SDA Primary School welcomes its first class of forty-two pupils. Adventist education comes to the village in earnest.

1997

Health clinic established

A small clinic begins offering antenatal care, vaccination and health education — carrying the church’s commitment to whole-person ministry into the community.

2014

Sanctuary renovated

After fifty-two years, the original sanctuary is renovated and expanded. Seating capacity grows to four hundred and twenty.

Today

Six hundred members

We are roughly six hundred baptised members, several dozen visiting friends each week, and a generation of children growing up in the life of the church.

Our mission

“To make disciples of Jesus Christ who live as His loving witnesses and proclaim to all people the everlasting gospel of His soon return.”
— Mission statement of the Seventh-day Adventist Church

What we believe

The 28 Fundamental Beliefs.

These are the core convictions we share with Adventists worldwide. They are not a creed — we hold the Bible as our only creed — but a summary of how we read it together.

The Bible is the written Word of God, given by divine inspiration through holy men who spoke and wrote as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

There is one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a unity of three co-eternal Persons.

God the eternal Father is the Creator, Source, Sustainer, and Sovereign of all creation.

God the eternal Son became incarnate in Jesus Christ. He lived and exemplified the righteousness and love of God.

God the eternal Spirit was active with the Father and the Son in Creation and Incarnation.

God has revealed in Scripture the authentic and historical account of His creative activity — in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth.

Man and woman were made in the image of God with individuality, the power and freedom to think and to do.

All humanity is now involved in a great controversy between Christ and Satan regarding the character of God, His law, and His sovereignty.

In Christ’s life of perfect obedience and suffering death, God provided the only means of atonement for human sin.

The gracious Creator, after the six days of Creation, rested on the seventh day and instituted the Sabbath for all people as a memorial of Creation.

The second coming of Christ is the blessed hope of the church, the grand climax of the gospel. The Saviour’s coming will be literal, personal, visible, and worldwide.

By baptism we confess our faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and testify of our death to sin and of our purpose to walk in newness of life.

Sixteen further beliefs (12–28) continue the doctrine and round out the full list of 28.

Pastoral team

The people who serve here.

Pastor Daudi Mwakasege

Senior Pastor

Has served Ngusero since 2018 after fifteen years pastoring in Mwanza. Father of three. Reads slowly and preaches plainly.

Pastor Naomi Lyimo

Associate Pastor, Family Life

Leads our family-life ministry and the women’s Bible study. Counsellor by training, gardener by joy.

Elder Yohana Mbwambo

Head Elder

A retired schoolteacher who knows every member by name and remembers every funeral the church has held.

Elder Grace Mollel

Youth Elder

Coordinates AY and youth Bible study. A nurse at the regional hospital. Patient with teenagers and impatient with injustice.