Grace and Peace to you friends.
I hope this note finds you doing well. I wanted to touch base with you on how things are going with the work. First of all, despite all of the COVID era travel restrictions our family has arrived safe and sound in Tanzania. I am delighted to be here and want to thank you for your prayers for safe and smooth travel.
One of the first orders of business was to meet with the school of preaching faculty to share some exciting plans that Bear Valley Bible Institute International is developing. Namely, they are standardizing the academic experience across all of their extensions. This is starting with a standard set of syllabi that I was able to share with our local faculty.
I was also able to share a generous resource donate to the Andrew Connally School of Preaching by our friends at World Video Bible School. They gave us three large hard drives full of their complete catalogue of very well-done videos, along with a portable projector to be used in showing those videos. We're already making plans for viewing and sharing these resources at the school and at area congregations.
Speaking of generous gifts, some other friends of the work have provided funds to renovate and update our school library! I will be excited to share update with you about this project as it moves along. Our friend, Sid Aultman, is sending a container later this year and has kindly offered us space for library materials. That means this is a perfect opportunity to get A LOT of books over to upgrade the library. I've prepared an Amazon wishlist of textbooks and recommended readings that we'd like to include. You can find that list here: (
Book List) If you would like to purchase some books on that list, then you can have the sent to:
194 Narrows Drive, Suite 1
Birmingham, AL 35242
There are also some books we want that are not available on Amazon. I would be happy to send you that list too upon request. Thank you in advance for your help with this project.
I'll close here because I try to keep these little updates short so it doesn't take too much of your time. However, personal bible studies and congregation visits are going great! The work here is so nourishing to the soul. Here are a few other recent pictures for you to enjoy!
Our English Class of Preaching Students
Our Swahili Class of Preaching Students
Worship at Ilkiurei Kanisa la Kristo
Baptism yesterday at Manyire
Till all have heard,
Daniel Gaines
Director
Tanzania Missions
