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Martha Ambarangu is a Pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania and a New Testament PhD Candidate at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. An ELCA Global Mission International Leaders Program scholar, she is also a member of African Women Leaders Network in the Young Women Leaders Pillar which of the United Nations and the National Director of the Circle of Concerned Women Theologians in Tanzania. Ambarangu is a wife, mother of two smart and beautiful girls, Michelle and Millicent, and the author of Heri and Nyamandi’s Summer, a children’s book.

Valora is the director for discipleship, Women of the ELCA.