Getting Comfortable, Getting Focused

May 19, 2014

Wow, it has been way too long since my last Ministry blog update! Please forgive me for not updating this sooner. We have really been enjoying life in Tanzania and staying very busy. The past several weeks have been very rainy, which has caused a lot of problems throughout Tanzania such as severe floods, property […]

Building A Ministry

July 7, 2012

I have to remind myself every day to be intentional about our ministry here and find ways to minister to anyone that we possibly can. Since we are still in the process of learning Swahili, we are still limited in what we are able to communicate. However, we learn more about how to minister to […]

Does the Dust Ever Settle? Be happy!

May 22, 2012

It seems like we live in a constant flurry of activity. For example, while Amy was in Thailand it was constant work for me. There was always something that needed to be done, or worked on, or prepared. My mind was constantly thinking of what had to be done right then and what I needed […]

Experience

March 6, 2012

EXPERIENCE is a very good teacher. Looking back at our house hunting EXPERIENCE from last year, we should have learned from that EXPERIENCE that it is not a simple or quick process. Since deciding to move to a different house this year, we started the process very early, expecting to run into some speedbumps. However, the obstacles that […]

Encouragement

February 10, 2012

Hello! I can’t tell you how full our hearts are right now. Many of you have been following our journey from the beginning. You may know about the problems we were having with our guards and houseworker. Well, we believe that the turbulence from that area of our lives and ministry here is over. We […]

9 Months Old

December 1, 2011

Hi Everybody! Well, another month has flown by and we are now in the month of December! At times it’s hard to believe that we have been here for 9 months now. At other times, because of how challenging it can get, we feel like we’ve been here long enough to need a vacation! But […]

A View From Above…

July 8, 2011

Ok, so it’s not really a view from above. It’s a view from our balcony. I walked around our house and took some pictures from the balcony. I wanted to post them, but then reconsidered as a safety precaution. At the current time, we have a pretty small ‘area of familiarity’. It is the area […]

URGENT NEED! We found our house! (pictures coming soon…)

April 18, 2011

URGENT NEED! Good morning family, friends, and partners in ministry. We HAVE FOUND A HOUSE! We are so excited at what the Lord has opened for us! We have bartered with the owner and he is willing to accept $1,000 per month, which is quite a wonderful bargain for what we are getting. The only […]

Housing Update

March 31, 2011

Habari za jioni marafiki wangu wote! Good evening all my friends! This is a brief update on a couple of hot topics. Our language training is going very well! We feel like we are absorbing so much. It feels almost miraculous. God has made us with minds and tongues that are absorbing Swahili apparently, so […]

A World of Difference

March 16, 2011

Hujambo! Karibu! That means Hello! Welcome! These are two phrases we have become familiar with since our arrival in Tanzania. We have taken a ride from end of the spectrum of emotions all the way to the other end, and it hasn’t even been two weeks yet! We got set up in some temporary living […]