Ok it appears last week’s post was not a big hit except with my core group of supporters. The comments I got were very encouraging but the number of reads was about half the normal. This week I will focus on some basic updates of what is going on. I will start with the biggest…
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…
Puppies and Rain
Rain I have always loved rain for as long as I can remember. There were a couple of times in the military where it rained so long and so hard you would think I would have learned to hate it but it only reinforced my love of rain no matter how much or long I…
A week in the life
While this first week on site was not designed to be a lot of hands on work due to my need to re-acclimatize to ever present heat and life in the valley I thought you may want kind of a day by day account of what goes on here. After a long weekend in Singida meeting up with…
Back to work
Just over a week back in Tanzania and still have not made it all the way back to the village but have gotten back to work and fun. The first couple of days were spent in Arusha with William and Martha Makali and getting back into the swing of things. The first task was getting…
Steve and Barnabas 