Fr. Jim Eble is a Maryknoll Priest with 30 yrs experience in Tanzania.  He has had a rich and diverse experience of Africa during these years.

He has lived and worked in different settings such as the Rift Valley living in a tent learning the language of pastoral people who kept to traditional ways; he has also lived in the Serengeti Plains where he worked in a rural parish of the poor forming Christian communities.

Fr. Jim has also participated in a Clinical Pastoral Education program in Kiswahili with Tanzanians for two years. After leaving the program he formed relationships with the people in a slum in which they built a thriving parish in the midst of much urban poverty.

During these 30 plus years, he realized the need for a deeper spiritual practice that would be helpful for the Africans to renew their own spiritual roots and that would assist them face the many challenges of globalization in a constantly changing world.

The Lake House of Prayer is a missionary apostolate with a focus on the Contemplative Tradition of the Church. The values it seeks to live out are Silence, Solitude, Simplicity, Spiritual Direction, and Outreach to the Marginated. It seeks to be a place of inclusive hospitality for all people.

The reality of a frenetic globalized world in which many are living confused hectic lives without any positive cultural and spiritual grounding contributed very much to the decision to undertake this missionary adventure.

Fr. Jim is also a trained Spiritual Director in the Jesuit tradition.