Getting ready this to do presentations about Tumaini Evangelistic Pre and Primary English Medium School and Blessed2BlessU Ministries, Inc. and I realized that it may help folks to understand why I want to talk about this ministry so much.Maybe to understand a little of the challenges facing the people in Kiruani when it comes to…
Kids Playing, more rain, hot temperatures and interesting "safety"
This week is a little bit of an odds and end discussion as I get ready to come home while applying for a work permit again. Last year got my visa schedule out of sync with everything else meaning it is up Thursday. This trip will be a little more extended for several reasons. The…
Tiny House Tanzania Part Three-A shotgun commitment
This post is two parts combined because they are both about our new structure being built at the site. The official title of the project is Missionary House since the structure will serve as my housing at the site. While our previous housing structure was anything but a tiny house, I opted to design myself…
Prayer Life
I have made the following confession before in this blog: I often feel like I am a poor prayer warrior. It is a part of my Christian life I feel is always in need of help. It is not that I don’t believe prayers are answered (I do believe that while all prayers are answered…
A little different rainy season
One thing about changing locations in Tanzania, much like it would be living in a different part of the USA, is the different weather patterns. At my previous location, rainy season started late November or early December and lasted until sometime in April. Quite often during rainy season you would actually have cool nights along…
Come visit Tanzania
I worry that sometimes in my effort to discuss the hardships facing life here in Tanzania and the people who live it daily, that I may be discouraging people from visiting the country. That would be a shame as, Tanzania is a beautiful country and to her visitors the people are kind and gracious. I…
Tanzania Tiny House Part Deux
To be technical this is actually a tiny apartment not a house. Many of you told me how much you enjoyed my stories or cringed during my discussions of living in the tiny house at my previous site. So many were happy about my living conditions with the new site, that I hated to tell…
Umeme time
Yes it is time to discuss electricity (Umeme) again. Why? I don’t know because I have not done so in a while. Because I had to fix several electrical items on site this week. Because I never discussed putting the solar system on the headmaster’s house. Because I can’t think of anything else specific to…
The start of the fifth year
Before I forget to include it later in the blog, I have a link to Blessed2BlessU Ministries, Inc. January 2018 newsletter which features an article about myself as well as a great piece in on Pastor Rogers Mnzavas.Today marks the first week back in the Moshi to Kiruani area and the start of my 5th…
Conversations with Barnabas #11
Welcome back to Conversations with Barnabas Bear. A couple of items up front, the conversation is fictional (hopefully that was obvious) but are pulled from some of my conversations and observations during my time here in Tanzania. The main purpose of these is to help everyone get to know the people in Tanzania a little…
Steve and Barnabas 