The last four weeks we have been putting on Spelling Competitions at the school. Every Thursday during the normal “debate” time, which is never an actual debate but instead a time when students have to speak at the front of the class to recite something they have learned, we have been going class by class…
Author: Steven Hendrix
I am a missionary engineer currently working with Blessed2BlessU Ministries, Inc. to build a school in Maasai Tribal area of Kiruani, Tanzania
A tale of two fundis
I guess I should start by telling you what a fundi is. The original meaning of the word was someone who is a specialist in some type of work. It was the word for someone who could repair a phone, a welder, a carpenter. It has since been used more generally. It can still mean…
Visitors
This last week I have had visitors from Missouri as part of Devoted Ministries. They have a canal project in another part of the country but have also visited our school before it became a fully functioning school and wanted to visit again. They also were helping Pastor Stephano and Compassion International with a sewing…
educational odds and ends
This week are some odds and ends for the school before we head into the spelling bee and mathematics competitions. First and foremost is our “new” van (the quotations are because it is new to us). We even had this one painted school bus yellow (a requirement here in Tanzania). The new van is already…
Walking into a Music Video
This will be a shorter blog as I have just finished up my required 90 day trip to Kenya and then stopped in Arusha to purchase a lot of items for the site including solar power systems for the classrooms. It was a log trip and I have been frustrated recently due to the lack…
Tiny House Tanzania-Kitchen/Sitting Room
Trying to keep the blog balanced so I am going back to Tiny House Tanzania episodes. This one is about the Kitchen and Sitting Room area. I may cover some areas I have already touched on but it has been a while so hopefully you will not mind.To start off I purchased a small handheld…
Time to brag a little again and to put things in perspective too.
As you are aware, I like to brag about how our students are doing. Unfortunately, due to some of the laws of the host nation I cannot truly explain why the grades of our students are so much to brag about. Here they use a different grading scale and when I have tried to raise…
You travel all the way to Tanzania you should do a safari
This is the final installment for the recent mission team visit. Every team that comes over should in fact do a safari because it is a part of the overall experience that is traveling to Tanzania. In the past I have always recommended going to Ngorongoro for a one day trip and it is still…
Something new with our mission trips
This is the third installment talking about the Mauldin UMC mission trip to Tumaini Evangelistic Pre & Primary School in Kiruani, Tanzania. This installment I want to talk about some of the bigger changes we planned for this mission trip from some at my previous site. First the biggest change in location is the tribe…
Mission Team to Tumaini Evangelistic Pre & Primary School
This is the second blog concerning the recent mission team from Mauldin United Methodist Church to the school I am currently working with in Tanzania. This was a first time a team had visited the school since it became a real school. There is a difference in visiting a preschool and a full fledge school…
Steve and Barnabas 