2024 Graduation Ceremony

This year marks a major milestone for Tumaini Evangelistic Pre & Primary School. At the beginning of this year we added the final Primary grade-Standard 7-to our school. We held the graduation ceremony for that class on August 30 even thought the class does not take their government exit exams until September 11 and 12….

Preschool Graduation 2023

Yes it is time for our preschool graduation ceremony again. The event was very much like last year’s a lot longer (3 hours) than a preschool student’s attention span. There at least was no speech about what they should study at college or what career they should hope for-they are just in preschool. The dance…

We continue to have a lot going on

I have had trouble getting blogs out and really it is a sign of good things not just me being lazy. As this school year raps up we are having our competitions, getting 2023 budgets ready, preparing Christmas gift budgets, going through government inspections, the church is having fundraisers and we are giving the students…

New School Year

2We have started our fifth year as Primary School and are excited to start off on some good notes. Last year we took our first government standardized test and our kids did pretty well. We had 5 students get an A, 2 students got a B and one student got a C. In our ward…

2019 is done, long live 2020!

Hello everyone and welcome to 2020.  Something weird about saying that.  I almost feel like I am back in the 1980s and that is a commercial for a home computer from Tandy at Radio Shack.  Regardless of my old person issues, we are here in 2020.  I wanted to take a moment and reflect on…

Mission Team to Tumaini Evangelistic Pre & Primary School

This is the second blog concerning the recent mission team from Mauldin United Methodist Church to the school I am currently working with in Tanzania.  This was a first time a team had visited the school since it became a real school.  There is a difference in visiting a preschool and a full fledge school…

Doug and Frank 2019 visit #1

It has been a busy couple of weeks here in Kiruani.  Doug and Frank from Blessed2BlessU Ministries, Inc. (the group I am working with to help build the school) came over from the USA to visit the site and set in motion our next big journey.  There are a lot of stories from these two…