This week I thought I would run through an account of some of the efforts to fix various things that I have encountered or some things that may need to be fixed. Let’s start with the rake from our site. Last year we bought the only form of rake you can find here in Singida…
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
Science is fun
One of the fun things I got to do last year was participate in the Peace Corp Volunteer’s conference for secondary school (high school) girls. This year they did a conference for boys in Singida and I was allowed to participate again. I don’t really do much at these other than walk around and smile…
I would give my entire kingdom for…
Here is a young girl who helps care for the child of one of our nurses. She is always on site with the baby strapped to her back bouncing it around and playing with it. She saw me headed out to take pictures of the site work and asked I take one of her. I…
Should Christians eliminate the word Mission from our vocabulary?
Flowers blooming at William and Martha’s after the rains From Dictionary.com is the following definition of the word Mission: 1–a group or committee of persons sent to a foreign country to conduct negotiations, establish relations, provide scientific and technical assistance, or the like. 2–the business with which such a group is charged. 3–any important task…
A smile is worth more than you think
Primary school kids at eyeglass distribution point-wanted picture with Twiggy the Twiga who you can barely see at the flagpole. The first time I was asked to do eyeglasses was on a medical mission trip to Panama in 2002. I was mainly along for crowd control and hauling luggage and the fact I loved…
Sifu Mungu Gari
Ok this week I want to talk about string theory in theoretical physics…Just kidding of course I am going to talk about the truck. Let’s start at the beginning of this particular set of events. Tuesday, March 9 I get a text from William about he has found a vehicle can I come to Arusha. …
2nd best day of PI
2nd best days of pi or π (complete references for items of a factual nature can be found in Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi Today, 3-14-15 is one of many days that consist the group called the 2nd best days of pi. Basically this group includes all March 14 in the year 15, 115, 215,…2015, 2115 and…
Two weeks for the price on One
After missing a chance to post my blog last week I have consolidated the two weeks mainly because it was a little boring. So basically I painted during the day, walked in the later afternoon, ate sandwiches except on cooking nights, read books or devotionals, showered and went to bed. The following are some deviations…
Sad and Joyous news
one of my favorite balboa trees with leaves. valley in background This week was mixture of sad and joyous news. Let’s get the sad out of the way. The female puppy (Bonnie-the brown one) died overnight on Tuesday. I noticed she was not eating that night and looked sort of frail. The next morning she…
Steve and Barnabas 