A Brief History
Historically Home Health Education Service started in January, 1994 as Tanzania Adventist Book Center (TABC) under the former Tanzania
Union Mission of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. TABC operated for about six years which ended in May, 2000 and since then TABC was entrusted to the management of the Tanzania
Adventist Press (TAP) up to December, 2007. It was a big challenge to run TAP and TABC under one management which prompted for the solution which was to start HHES in order to cater for ABC’s/Book depositories and Literature Evangelists in a better way.
On early January, 2008 in a very humble beginning Home Health Education Service (HHES) Tanzania Union was organized with two workers Manager and Treasurer and one personnel. To begin with, HHES was given an inventory worthy of 89 million. HHES under this
new management worked very hard to the extent that it managed to provide benefits for Literature Evangelists and other workers.
Toward the end of 2013 there was a split of Tanzania Union Mission which resulted in having two organized Unions; Northern Tanzania Union Conference (NTUC) and Southern Tanzania Union Mission (STU). This split of the Union resulted also to the split of the Home Health Education Service which took place on March, 2015; therefore we currently have HHES NTUC and HHES STU. Home Health Education Service Southern Tanzania Union Mission (HHES STU) offices are situated in Morogoro Town, Misufini area. The Southern Tanzania Union Mission (STU) of the Seventh day Adventist Church where HHES belongs is comprised of three Conferences which are Southern Highlands Conference (SHC), Eastern Central Tanzania Conference (ECT) and South East Tanzania Conference (SEC). In these Conferences HHES operates Fifty Book Depositories. At present HHES is administering 1,262 Literature Evangelists and twelve workers. Home Health Education Service is dedicated to strengthening the home through health and character education; provides a wide range of publications that meet that need of making the Bible easy to understand and relevant to the problems of contemporary living.