For those wondering and asking, I am still stateside. After the memorial service and the work I need to do on my house to get it ready to rent again, I would only have a month in Tanzania before they closed for the mid-year break over the month of June. So I will be returning…
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2024 Year in Review
Another year done, another review of what happened. I am going to start things off by thanking everyone who has been praying for my health and for my family as we struggle with my Mom’s declining health. Parkinson’s and dementia together have really progressed this year to the point as we start 2025 we will…
St. Mark UMC Mission Team-Worship/Maasai
Every team that comes get a chance to participate in worship at the church closest to our school (plus the school director is the bishop/pastor for this church). They have the opportunity to sing and give the sermon, but more than anything they get to enjoy a different form of worship. I always joke the…
St. Mark UMC Mission Team-Games
Always a key element to a successful Bible school is games for the kids to play. They don’t always tie directly into your bible lesson for a specific day, but they do allow the kids to be kids and burn some energy. When doing one in a less developed country where team sports, especially for…
St. Mark UMC Mission Team-Craft Station
A Bible school has to have crafts. Children the world over love to do crafts. In fact when doing a Bible school in Africa or South America you will find the adults enjoy the chance to participate in the crafts room as much as the children. I have had bus and truck drivers sit down…
St. Mark UMC Mission Trip-Bible Story Station
It has been a very busy time at Tumaini Evangelistic Pre & Primary School since I returned in September. At the end of September (I mean the very end and late that night) a group from St. Mark UMC in Greenwood, SC arrived at the Kilimanjaro airport to start 9 great days of Bible School…
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…
Meet our Students: Mery
Mery, Mery quite contrary. I don’t know why but that always sticks in my head when I am talking about or to Mery (pronounced Mary). She is of course nothing like the nursery rhyme song which has been largely equated to dark themes of torture. She is not even really like the definition: inclined to…
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…
Steve and Barnabas 