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…
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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…
International Ministry in a Pandemic
Big challenges provide us with big opportunities to prove ourself. That was something I truly grasped for the first time when I was in the military. The bigger the obstacle, the nastier the problem always saw people of true worth step up and do something. This is one of those challenges. In today’s blog I…
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…
End of October Monthly Tests, new septic system etc.
Last week I told you about finishing up the spelling competition with our students. This last week we started the math competition with the Baby and Middle Class which mainly consisted of counting shapes on the television screen in a timed PowerPoint presentation. I have three more weeks of math competitions (a week for each…
Spelling Competition 2019
The last four weeks we have been putting on Spelling Competitions at the school. Every Thursday during the normal “debate” time, which is never an actual debate but instead a time when students have to speak at the front of the class to recite something they have learned, we have been going class by class…
Something new with our mission trips
This is the third installment talking about the Mauldin UMC mission trip to Tumaini Evangelistic Pre & Primary School in Kiruani, Tanzania. This installment I want to talk about some of the bigger changes we planned for this mission trip from some at my previous site. First the biggest change in location is the tribe…
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…
February Test Results
With everything that has been going on here in Tanzania, I have gotten behind in some of my stories to tell here on the blog. While Doug and Frank were visiting, we had our end of February tests for the students which allowed them to help us present the top students with their prizes. The…
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…
Steve and Barnabas 