Grace and Peace to you friends.
School is out for the summer, but that just means that things get even busier in Tanzania. A break for our students signals the beginning of a busy campaign season full of overlapping visitors. A group from Kensington Woods traveled to Tanzania to do some work in Namanga and with our teammates, the Staffords, over in Moshi. Right after that, ACSOP hosted a group of students from Faulkner that came to campaign in the Kisongo area. Before they left, Brad Whinery from Oklahoma and his grandson, Kyron, came to assist in a campaign with the Lerai congregation. Just before they returned home, a large group from Northport came to do work with the Mtu wa Mbu congregation. These campaigns have resulted in well more than 20 baptisms just in the past three weeks. Why don’t you organize a group from your congregation to campaign in Tanzania too? We’d love to have you!
Meanwhile, Tiffany and I were there to assist with some of the campaigning, but also to do some of the annual good will tour. Faculty from ACSOP attempt to visit the home congregations of each of our students at least once during their two years of training. This gives us the chance to improve relationships between the school and the local brotherhood, better understand our students’ circumstances, recruit more students, and identify other needs that the congregations may have. Additionally, these trips allow us to check up on some building projects that have we have undertaken across the country.
On this particular trip, we had the opportunity to do a seminar for the Mwanza Mwankiaga congregation. This church has been meeting under a tree for the past two years. They arranged to use a school house for our two-day seminar, which was well attended. I spoke to the church about having the strength to be different from the world around us. Meanwhile, Tiffany coached the women on techniques for teaching the Bible to children. Having become better aware of their situation, we made a Facebook appeal, and you responded. We look forward to being able to purchase land and build them a permanent building soon.
Ahimidiwe and I also did a seminar at the Mahhahhaa congregation. They were so thankful that they rewarded us with Maasai shukas and a live chicken. It was a great time of fellowship and spiritual growth.
Thank you so much for your prayers, support, and encouragement. It takes a lot of good people working together to keep these good things going. Thank you for being a part of it!
Till all have heard,
Daniel Gaines
Mission Coordinator
Tanzania Missions
