Kinshasa
The other Diocese in waiting
is Kinshasa and Philip Bingham, who recently paid a
visit there, writes:
I attended a service at Ngaliema in Kinshasa. The worship was in Lingala with very lively singing and congregational participation even in the sermon. Ngaliema in one of six parishes and one sub-parish in Kinshasa itself. Only one parish (Bumbu) has a completed church building and at Ngaliema they have completed building almost to the top of the walls. The others meet either under makeshift shelters or in the open air, often on land borrowed from friendly owners. But there is steady, if unspectacular, growth. One parish which meets just in the open air now has 350 members and Bumbu has over 400.
In Kinshasa there is little direct sign of the civil war, but much poverty, exacerbated by the influx of about one million displaced people. Most people live from hand to mouth, eating in the evening what they have earned in the day, and many displaced people have occupied buildings damaged in earlier outbreaks of fighting or looting. The Bishop told me that because people are using all their energies just to survive, basic hygiene and sanitation is being neglected leading to an increase in preventable disease.
The church is also reaching
out to the southwest of the capital, with congregations in
Matadi and Boma in the Bas-Congo region. Bishop Isingoma has
recently appointed an archdeacon to cover this area and
encourage the development of the churches. 
Isingoma’s wife Mugisa has started work among the women and recently 32 women were made members of the Mothers Union following two months of instruction, effectively marking the beginning of the Mothers Union in Kinshasa. But Mugisa does not want to work just with the women but with their husbands as well to teach Christian principles of marriage and family life.
The big issue for most Christians in Kinshasa and Brazzaville is the desire for church buildings. But Bishop Isingoma sees the need for teaching and training both of church leaders and lay people, not least because all sorts of churches and sects are springing up around Kinshasa and he is convinced of the need to give the Anglican Christians a solid foundation and understanding of their faith. He is already holding twice-weekly teaching sessions for the clergy and evangelists and has two ordinands at theological college. He hopes to set up theological education by extension (TEE) soon.
So although the Anglican church in Kinshasa is small, it is growing and Bishop Isingoma has a vision for teaching and strengthening the faith of the Christians as well as reaching out to bring others into the church.