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Outreach Effort is Bearing Fruit

     Today we had the pleasure of worshipping with the Njiro Nane Nane congregation.  The rotating "Spiritual Disciplines" seminar is beginning there, and that congregation will be blessed by the study for the next 3 months.  

     A few weeks ago we announced to you a new outreach initiative that partners the Andrew Connally School of Preaching and the local congregations.  Through this effort our preaching students are being sent to area congregations on weekends to help with evangelistic efforts, and serve in worship service.   After the first month of this program, we are very happy to announce that good fruits are already being produced.  So far this effort has resulted in 17 baptisms!  Additionally,  21 unfaithful souls have been restored to the Lord's church.  I am so proud of our students, and I look forward to seeing all of the ways that God continues to use them.

God Reigns and the Sky Rains

Left:  A muddy Sunday morning at Njiro Chini    Right: Monthly evangelism meeting with area preachers

     Things are continuing to move right along here in Tanzania.  We are still the only American team-members in the country right now, but we are looking forward to Cy's return in a couple of weeks.  In the meantime, we are busy making plans for what promises to be a very busy Safari for Souls season.  Our first campaigners will be here next week to do work in Njiro Chini.  Exciting times!

     At the school, I am currently teaching a class on Christian Evidences.  It's one of my favorite topics, and it is rewarding to see the students growing in this area.

    We are finally getting some very long overdue rains, and the crops are happy because of it.  It makes travel on all of these dirt roads a little more treacherous, but the rains are very much a blessing to the people of Tanzania.  The drought has caused reservoir levels to drop dangerously low, and has been a serious concern.

     The electrical situation has stabilized (somewhat).  For several weeks the power was going out for several hours each day, and even for several days in a row at one point.  A couple of weeks ago we used more gas in our generator than we did in our vehicle.  In fact our generator has already logged twice as many hours this year as it did all of last year.  However, the past several days have presented no problems in that area, and we hope that will last a while.

     An acute awareness and gratitude for the blessings of water and electricity are just part of life in the African mission fields!

Our road is a little muddy

Sometimes you just have to wait for a herd of cattle to clear out of your way

   

Swahili Bible Class Songs

     For those of you who might visit Tanzania, and plan to help with a children's Bible class while you are here, we thought we would provide you with a little tutorial on how to sing a few Swahili songs.  If you learn a few of these, it will put you much more at ease in front of those sweet little faces.  Even if you're not coming to Tanzania, maybe your Bible school class might enjoy some of these songs.  Hope you find these videos interesting and helpful!  You can download the lyrics HERE.