Shortly after my mom passed away in April, my dad asked about making a safari trip to Tanzania. While dad has visited Tanzania three time prior (two mission trips and one a trip with my brother and myself) I was shocked by his request. He normally does not want to go anywhere now a days….
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Tumaini Evangelistic Pre & Primary School Explores Arusha National Park
For the third year in a row, Tumaini Evangelistic Pre & Primary School has taken a study tour (field trip in the USA). Remember your own field trips to museums or local farms to learn but to also bring alive some of the lessons from the classrooms. Field trips are important to young students to…
Alaska Vacation
Realize not all of my readers care about my vacation, but figure you can just stop at the title with no harm done. But for those that know me know I take a lot of photos and am always working on my nature photography and may enjoy some of the photos I took in one…
St. Mark UMC Mission Team-SAFARI
We are finally to the part so many people love to see-the Safari photos. Personally I am partial to all the kids, but I do love the photos from a safari. This team got to take two safaris with the first being to Tarangire (Hope of the Elephants) and the second being to Arusha National…
285 Students
Well 2024 has gotten off to a very fast start at Tumaini (Hope) Evangelistic Pre & Primary School in Kiruani, Tanzania. Before the school opened for the year we had 285 students registered and had to stop accepting new students to prevent overcrowding in the classrooms. This was roughly 15 more students than we expected…
Travel Stories in a Pandemic and dealing with Quarantine
I thought you might like to hear some of the stories from my travel home during the middle of a global pandemic. Some of you may have seen some of the photos on my facebook feed, but I have some more that did not make that feed. I am also going to talk about what…
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…
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…
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…
Steve and Barnabas 