First Day of Winter

Today is the first day of winter in the southern hemisphere. It was 68 degrees in our house this morning (we have no heat or air conditioning). It got Nan to cooking a pot of chili and some oatmeal raisin cookies. This is a poinsettia that grows in our yard.

Bible School

Although our volunteers have gone home now, we wanted to let you see some of the things we did while they were with us in Kondoa. We had a two day bible school for the children. We played games, sang, prayed, had stories, color sheets to take home, made witnessing booklets, had dramas and refreshments.

Our Bible school was small, but everyone had a good time. In the first pictures we are doing a drama of Dorcas, this time Chase was Dorcas and Ezra was Peter, we did the drama twice. The second picture is cookies and Kool-Aid (what is Bible school without Kool-Aid??). The last picture is Nan with the children and Mama Edena our helper. The two days were good and we will have to do this again!

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.