TEAM Staff

    • Dennis Mnyanyi, Country Director, has served in the Anglican Church of Tanzania for 20 years. He is currently in the United States for his last year in the Master of Theological Studies degree program at Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. Rev. Mnyanyi is a native Tanzanian who’s family resides in Morogoro, Tanzania. Dennis received a BA in Theology at St. Philip's Theological College-OTC England. He is also certified in Theology through the Church Army School in Nairobi, Kenya, as well as Youth Leadership and Counseling through Daystar University in Nairobi, Kenya. He has studied small group education in both the U.S. and in Tanzania.

    • Blair Henneke Martin, Founder and Co-director of TEAM, is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis where she studied studied international health and development. She has six years experience working in Tanzania with the Anglican Church on HIV/AIDS prevention and community sensitization strategies. Blair has participated in Prescription for Hope's International HIV/AIDS Conference in 2002 and attended the SPLICE, PILAT, and DAR training courses at Mission Training International (MTI) in Colorado Springs in 2003. In 2002 Blair was privileged to present TEAM's curriculum to the Diocesan heads of health at Tanzania's Provincial Church's Annual HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health Conference. In 2003 she participated in the Anglican Church of Tanzania's (ACT) Four-Year Strategic Planning Conference. It was after this conference's presentation that TEAM was adopted into the Anglican Church's Province Wide Prevention Strategy. Blair also served as a presenter at the 2003 Faith Based Conference on Home Based Care in Arusha, Tanzania, where TEAM was showcased as a successful emerging model for training villagers in basic health care, care for the sick and dying, and in raising up community health care workers.
    • Kevin H. Martin, Co-Director, is also a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Kevin has attended all three MTI training courses and, since he joined TEAM in 2002, he has designed TEAM's presentations for three national health conferences in Tanzania, including ACT's Four-Year Provincial Strategic Health Plan Conference and the Home Based Care Conference in Arusha. He also served as the co-presenter at the Annual HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health Conference in Tanzania.