Hope this finds you doing
well! God is FAITHFUL, as are so many of YOU, to get my budget to 100% so I could
come back to Tanzania and get to WORK! I
arrived in May and hit the ground (and the roads) right away! I have been all
over the country teaching kids and training Sunday School teachers!
For more pictures and videos of the
stories below and others, click here: Transform Tanzania Facebook page. You do NOT have to be on Facebook to look at
the page and see the pics and videos! But if you are, be sure to ‘like’ and
‘follow’ the page to get the updates as they happen!
So here's what I've been up to:This video is of the kids at Mwandeti Baptist Church reciting the 6 characteristics of God
May: My ministry partner, Sarah Samweli, and I taught kids
at Mwandeti Baptist Church. We had fun teaching
the 6 characteristics of God and how to search for them in every Bible
story. We also taught a song, complete
with motions, to remember it! There were at least 150 kids that day—A LOT! Most churches are smaller and have less than
that, but their head teacher, Lazaro, is great with
them! Sarah and I taught in Swahili; then he translated into the Masai language
since many of the kids haven’t been to school and don’t know Swahili! The 'building' were are in used to be the church but is now the Sunday School room. They built a big nice concrete church to worship in! For For more pics and videos of Mwandeti click here
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| Teaching at Mwandeti with Lazaro |
June: I accompanied some volunteers from the USA who came
to work with my friends, Michael and Juliette Nhonya. We visited a school in
Arusha, where I translated for one of the volunteers.
Then went to Longido village to
visit a new Masai Baptist church there—so new it’s still under a tree! It was awesome
and I can’t wait to go back and teach their Sunday School teachers! The next day we went waaaaaaaaay out to Tukusi village to meet with a Masai
ladies group. Tukusi is way out in the bush; we crossed 4 or 5 dry river beds
to get there! We weren’t sure we were going to make it, but they were happy to
see us finally (only took us 4 hours) arrive! Loved hearing the ladies sing! Click here to hear them singing!
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| Teaching with Aaron from NC at the school |
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| Church under the tree in Longido |
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| Women and children of Longido |
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| Young Tukusi woman leading worship |
July: I
drove to Morogoro district, Tunguli village, to do a weekend women’s seminar
with the Nhonyas. They are both from this village and it was fun meeting their
families!
It was a LONG way (10 hrs to town then 4 more hours to the village!) It
was bush living and eating that weekend as we taught women and kids during the day and Michael showed evangelistic movies at night! Click here for Video of Tunguli kids singing
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| Tunguli kids and me: look at those smiles!!! |
August: I drove to Tanga (10 hrs) on the coast of the Indian
Ocean, to teach my very first Sunday School Teachers Training: 25 ladies
attended representing 8 churches. We had 2 days of training where they learned
how to teach God’s Word to their kids and received a book with a whole YEAR of
lessons! Pray for these churches,
teachers and their kids!
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| Me and my students in Tanga |
September: Just completed my second Sunday School Teachers
Training here in Arusha; Sarah helped me teach 17 men and women from 10 local
churches. Even Lazaro from Mwandeti
attended! Pray for these churches, teachers
and their kids!
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| Arusha teachers with their new teacher's Sunday School books |
October: Sarah and I will go to Dodoma (7 hrs) to the East
African Baptist Women’s Union Meeting. We will see women from multiple
countries and I hope to get the chance to share about children’s ministry.
Sarah has asked me to translate when she speaks, so maybe I WILL get the chance!
Please pray for that trip and all the
attendees! We hope to do one more teachers training before I return to
the USA in November to spend
the holidays with my family! Please
pray for that training (probably in Longido).
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| Sarah and I outside her house |
Also, please pray that my Tanzanian
immigration documents arrive before I need to leave! They are already overdue! That's always a nailbiter, every 2 years!!
Thank you for so faithfully praying for my
ministry and for giving generously! YOU funded
ALL these trainings: the gas for me to
go, the food and board for me and all the participants, and you even the
materials provided—a whole year’s worth! All the teachers thank you, their
churches and kids thank you and so do I!
God bless you!
Kay
To give to my ministry click here or go to www.willingtogo.com (acct. F001)
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