I got back in Singida around noon on Thursday local time and meant to get right on a blog entry that afternoon. But have you ever stared at a blank page with so much to say at one moment and no clue how to condense it all down to one writing or where to start….
The Peanut Butter Conundrum
When I get a chance to fix myself something to eat, I prefer a good old peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I don’t have a place to cook here (in my room) so it has to be simple and now that I have a wonderful Tupperware Bread keeper from Mrs. Carpenter and lots of Sugar…
The Baobab Tree proverb
When bringing teams over to Tanzania, they always want to take pictures of the baobab tree (I have sometimes called it the balboa tree because that is how many locals pronounce it). Various species can grow to be 98 feet tall and 112 feet in diameter and they have been carbon dated at 1275 years…
Barnabas 2nd Newsletter-June 2014
Hello all. This is Barnabas and dad is attaching my second newsletter to this blog-hopefully! You can download each page by right clicking and choose save image. Last Newsletter made it to California and New York where businesses and churches printed it out to give to kids. Let’s see how many places can become involved…
Arobaini na Saba
I was not going to do anything for this day, just let it pass as any other. Then it struck me this is Arobaini na Saba we are talking about and as a math and science nerd, I just cannot ignore that. What is significant about Arobaini na Saba: It is a Prime Number which…
How Things Change
My first short term mission trip to the Yulansoni valley was in 2001. A lot of things are still the same in the Singida and Yulansoni area, but a lot are different. I thought I would spend a blog exploring some of those items and some of the things that surprised me that are the…
The Walking Retread
Sorry for the play on the TV show name but it seemed appropriate for today’s discussion. As I have talked about some in past blogs, one of the things I get to do a lot of is walk. I normally walk 5 miles (total-3 at the site and 2 in town to the bus station)…
Unfortunately this is not a new record!
My favorite Sunset photo of week. It is unfortunate but I have to say my second visit to the hospital in a month is not a record. I wish it was but let’s be honest I led a life that leads to hospital visits. Never thought I would be doing it in the mission field…
Memorial Day Overseas
Wow, Memorial day is tomorrow and to be perfectly honest until I started seeing all the Facebook posts I had not realized it was here. This is probably one of the more significant “holidays” to me other than Easter and Christmas. More so than Independence Day or even Veteran’s day and the ever growing list…
A second visit from the states
Had a second visitor from the USA this weekend. Rob Schadt with http://www.pommernvillagechoir.org and http://www.soul-lit.com (spiritual poetry) came for a quick visit (arrived Saturday and left Monday morning). This was interesting for me because William is stateside for his daughter’s graduation from Wofford, so this was the first visit I was responsible for. Fortunately almost…
Steve and Barnabas 