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…
Tag: Tanzania
St Mark UMC Mission Team-Music Station
A Key element for any Bible School, either in the USA or abroad, is music. Parent’s love to come see their little ones singing and dancing the typically high energy songs typical of Vacation Bible School. Children are predisposed, in my humble opinion, to want to learn through music and enjoy burning some energy. Children…
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…
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….
Post Flood Update
I have been back in Tanzania for almost a month after the floods receded. This should help with understanding how massive the effect has been in our area. The waters have receded from the high of about 13 feet that covered the main road to our village for several months. They have been doing repairs…
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…
My name is Steve-get used to it! Sorry but not sorry
I decided to save this story for a week so Doug and Frank can get home and forget all about checking my blog regularly before I tell it. There is something you may need to get used to or accept if you come to visit our school. The kids in our village area think all…
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…
Life at the New Site
This week in the blog (yes, I know I am not actually getting them out weekly right now) I wanted to talk a little about life at the new site. This project is very different for me because I am currently not hands-on involved with any of the actual work going on. Instead of focusing…
Steve and Barnabas 