How do I describe this last week? Surreal, hard to fathom, chaos, unbelievable? After last week’s blog about the wonderful gifts, the team brought me and the gift of their time and presence we move to my being recalled to the states. Why? As many will recall, I had to come home in April due…
The bears get adopted
So the team brought over bears made with love and showered in prayers. The people back in the states paid to adopt a bear to help raise funds for the team. They got a laminated picture of the bear they adopted. Now here in Tanzania, we give the bears out to the kids and people…
Mission Team #2
To view almost all the photos I took you can go to Steve’s photo album The team arrived Saturday, June 17 at the Kilimanjaro International Airport which is about 1 hour away from Arusha where they would be staying their first night in Tanzania. Normally we use the safari vehicles to pick everyone up at the…
What is left in life?
So a few of you found out that I turned 50 this week from my parent’s note in the church bulletin. What most don’t know is that I was never supposed to live this long. The doctors who dealt with some of my military injuries concurred I would never live to see 30. So I…
We are getting animals at the Preschool
I remember growing up that occasionally a group would visit our farm like my class (I think it may have been kindergarten) to see the farm animals. I would always be curious why everyone got so excited, they sure would not have been so excited if they had to feed and water them every day….
Getting closer on the playground-final work getting ready for mission team
The view as I wrap up another day roughly 6:30 PM. The light will last long enough for me to boil water for my shower and walk to the shower. I know everyone is tired of hearing about planing boards, but guess what I did this week? I did concrete, repaired a chair, repaired floors…
Another step for the playground equipment
This week was full of more wood for the site. Basically, about 1 and 1/4 time the previous order with almost all of it 1×8 boards meaning more face to be planed down. I have so many boards I am having storage problems until I get them all ready. So I had to use two…
Let’s build a playground-oh no wait let’s just prep the wood for the framing
Most regular readers of my blog know I am a fan of “Tiny House Nation” on the FYI Network. What you may not know is I love a lot of the shows that do a lot of creative things on houses and yards and buildings in general. Things like “Home Town”, “Fixer Upper”, “Rehab Addict”…
Conversations with Barnabas-Elfu Moja
Today’s Conversation with Barnabas is a big one. Today we welcome Elfu Moja to the Prayer/Mission Bear Family. Elfu Moja means one thousand in Kiswahili and he is the 1000th bear made by one of the most caring, sweetest individuals you will ever meet. So today we are interviewing Lynda S. who makes 99.95% of…
Steve and Barnabas 