Power-It’s not just for city folk!

So one of the things most people find shocking about our medical clinic is that it has real electricity.  It did have a solar panel and battery installed four to five years ago but it was not a system that was matched up or sized to the need.  Add to that its age and lack…

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…

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…

Videos, Visitors and Care Packages Oh My!

It has been some happening weeks here in Tanzania since my return or more importantly the return of my laptop from Nairobi.  After getting a week behind in my work with the repair of my laptop and then the trials and tribulations in getting it back in my hands, I had to spend a large…

Oh the fun of visas

Before I actually get started this week I am going to deviate-I know I do that a lot- and make a request for assistance. Rev. William Makali and his wife Martha would like to come stateside to see their daughter graduate college.  This is not an FDM USA sponsored trip so he has to raise…

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…