Ok this was a blog I was holding off on as long as possible hoping that God would answer my prayers in an overwhelming positive (for me) fashion. But apparently He really wants me to work to learn this-Kiswahili. I have spent hours every day working through my grammar books and dictionaries. I have created…
Bible Time
I have another confession to make: I have never read the Bible starting with Genesis 1:1 and reading in order until Revelation 22:21. I have participated in Disciples I and II, I have participated/lead Bible studies on just about every book of the Bible and I am positive I have read from every book doing the reading…
Communication and Banking
Before I get started on this week’s blog entry, let me thank everyone who helped make the first Barnabas Bear Newsletter a huge success. I am hearing stories of a Chick-Fil-A in New York that printed the newsletter at their cost and gave it to customers purchasing a kid’s meal. Another story from California is…
Barnabas March 2014 Newsletter
This one is going to be very different. Because Blogger will not allow me to post a PDF file, I had to do this kind of weird. So Barnabas’ newsletter is on Facebook in two image files. I am posting the main article here but if you would like the count in Kiswahili, games and…
Some Random Musings
As I am two days late with this blog and part of that is due to falling sick to some very small sardine like fish in a soup that was absolutely no fun while traveling from Yulansoni to Singida and then a day later to Arusha, I am not doing a normal blog but instead…
The First Month
It is difficult to believe I have already been in country for over a month. It has been strangely fast paced in overall time despite the slow pace of the individual days. There are still a lot of things to talk about which I am shocked over because I figured I would have run out…
Singida/Yulansoni first trip out
This one will be a bit long as there are a lot of things to cover about the trip out to Singida and Yulansoni this first time as an individual. While I have had the pleasure to go to both and to use local transportation to get to Singida in the past this trip as…
Chakula-Food
One of the many questions I was asked before coming here is what will you eat. So I thought I would like to share a little about what I have been eating here, but please understand this is what I am eating at William and Martha’s house and around town in Arusha, it may change…
City Streets and Transportation
Ok so I promised more information on getting around in Arusha. I want to start by trying to paint a picture for you. There are two main roads in the city proper and one section paved connecting the two. There are some paved side streets and some dirt ones. The main road, Sokoine (pronounced so-ko-ee-nay)…
Steve and Barnabas 