On Safari

We are on safari this week with our volunteers, enjoying the great things of nature that God has created and how fortunate we are to get to see them, in their natural setting.

Volunteers

We have had volunteers this week, Bonnie and Chase Sellers. They arrived on Monday, June 6th and have been with us in Kondoa. (Bonnie is Terry's cousin from Little Rock). We have had a great time having them here. They went with Nan to the girl's high school and Bonnie gave her testimony, they went with us to the corner and helped with our cooking lesson (picture to follow soon), and we had two mornings of Bible school for children. It has been a busy week and we leave tomorrow, Monday, June 13 for safari. They will fly out on Thursday, June 16th.

A Bible for her birthday

This is Tumaini (Hope) and she recently has her 12th birthday. She is the niece of our worker. We gave her a Bible and she was so pleased. After we left from taking her the gift and cupcakes, she told her aunt, she had wanted a Bible of her own. She brings it to worship every week and is learning Bible verses and how to look up scriptures. Most Tanzanians never own their own Bibles.

Spring Break

We recently went to Arkansas for our "spring break". We took 18 days and were able to spend time with family and friends. Here is Terry playing basketball with our son Darin, and our two grandsons, Dustin & Jacob. We had a great visit, but it was much to short. We returned to Kondoa on Saturday the 21st of May.

We have had lots of company this week and got started back to our teaching at the two schools. We have just about 11 months now before our stateside. Thanks for your continued pr@yers.

Cooking class on the corner

We recently made pizza at our cooking class on the corner. This was quite a lesson since we had to do everything from crust, sauce, and baking all from scratch and on a charcoal cooker. This was a new taste for them also because not a single one had ever eaten pizza, they even had lots of trouble saying PIZZA. We have lots of fun visiting while things are cooking, but the ideal thing would be to have a Bible study while we wait. When we come back in May we are going to let them do the cooking. Each student will choose a recipe and they will have to cook it. We will provide the ingredients for them, but they seem to be excited about the prospect of cooking. They called it their "test". Our pr@yer is that one day this will lead to them asking questions about more than cooking.

Terry & Harry and the Jogoo

Terry & Harry and the Jogoo kind of sounds like a musical group, but a jogoo is a rooster. Harry is one of our peace corp volunteers and he came to Kondoa to get two roosters for his project in the village. You can also see Terry making a waterer for Harry to take back to the village with him. We try to always do things that are reproducible with what the people have locally.

Terry makes a chicken waterer

Recently, on the corner, Terry was teaching how to make a chicken waterer from large plastic water bottles. He used a large 12 liter bottle for the bottom, cutting the top off and making a tray to hold the water and a smaller 6 liter for the water storage. You put a few holes in the top bottle and it lets the water fall down into the bottom tray until it is filled, then the chickens can drink from the bottom tray. It keeps the chickens out of the water and keeps the water cleaner.

One of our peace corp volunteers was here last week getting some roosters for his project in a village and they made the waterer. This is something Terry learned as a young boy at his grandparents farm.