Sajida (pronounced Sah-gee-dah) is a very sweet young girl in our middle preschool class who started last year in the baby class. She is not known for showing her emotions very much. Almost every picture and mental memory I have of her is similar to the one to the left of this text. She does…
International Ministry in a Pandemic
Big challenges provide us with big opportunities to prove ourself. That was something I truly grasped for the first time when I was in the military. The bigger the obstacle, the nastier the problem always saw people of true worth step up and do something. This is one of those challenges. In today’s blog I…
Meet our Students: Angel (1)
This week I want to introduce you to Angel. Sometimes spelled Angela but she prefers to be called Angel. I also referenced her as number one. When we have multiple students with the same name, the students refer to them with a number based on when they got there. I am not sure what is…
Meet our Students: Gift
You can click on the photos above to view them in a larger scale. This post will be about Gift which is pronounced Gifty. In Kiswahili speaking countries, all english words that end with certain consonants like t or d the final letter is pronounced as a separate hard syllable. So Gift is pronounced Gif–T…
Meet our Students: Grace
This is a fun week at the school despite the fact it is still closed. New Playground equipment is being installed thanks to a generous donation from Mauldin UMC Men’s Fellowship. I also need to acknowledge the first photo in the collage of a very young grace on the left was taken by someone else,…
Meet our Students: Wolter
Welcome back to our new feature about meeting our students. Before I get into introducing you to Wolter, I want to give you an update on what is going on in Tanzania and specifically our school. Tanzania is reporting 32 cases of Covid-19 which is up from 12 when I left just shy of two…
Meet our Students: Beatrice
The votes are in and counted (It was not hard since there were only 7 votes). The overwhelming winners were stories about the students/teachers and the open forum for my fictional writing. We are going to start off with stories about students. I put a group of names into a basket and drew one out….
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Travel Stories in a Pandemic and dealing with Quarantine
I thought you might like to hear some of the stories from my travel home during the middle of a global pandemic. Some of you may have seen some of the photos on my facebook feed, but I have some more that did not make that feed. I am also going to talk about what…
I am coming home, but I have toilet paper!!!!
First I hope and pray everyone is safe. The Corona Virus continues to dominate my news feed and Facebook wall. From humor to apocalyptic predictions it is all there seems to be to talk about right now. While I have tried to post things on Facebook not related to the virus or at least somewhat tongue…
The world is under a self quarantine. What is a Christian to do?
This is Mery’s bible story book she got a year and a half ago. She has worn the cover and several pages off of it in that time. During times like this it is good to make sure we spend time daily reading the Bible and communicating with God. While it is ok to be…
Steve and Barnabas 