Some of you who follow my Facebook postings know I suffered a bit the other weekend with stomach issues that also hit me this last weekend. I am going to use that as a convenient excuse why I did not get to this posting earlier, but in reality I have just struggled with what to say about these…
Sixth Month Trip to Nairobi-Slums, Science Experiments, Girls who Box and a Riot that almost was
Wow hard to believe it was time for my second trip to Nairobi-For those who have not been following long-my visa in Tanzania requires I leave the country every 90 days (most countries have something like this) and so I take a bus to Nairobi, Kenya for a couple of days of good food and…
De Road, De Road…Oh Wait! De Bridge De Bridge
Let’s play the age game. I am guessing most of my readers are old enough to remember a show from the late 70’s to early 80’s called Fantasy Island that aired on ABC. The concept was simple, the wealthy (normally though some story lines indicated you paid according to your means) paid to have their…
The sands of time
So I promised some follow up to items mentioned in my last blog but unfortunately the internet service has been very weak lately and I have not been able to follow up on that. So here is the first one and I will get the second one out when I return from this trip to…
What makes for a good week in Tanzania
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…
Steve and Barnabas 