Africa Adventures- Part 3 Missions Update
July 21, 2010 by Nate
Jambo Timu! (Greetings Team!)
Well, I cannot believe the day is here- the last day that we are serving at the school here in Tanzania, Bible Baptist Academy. What a bittersweet day it has been! Everyone has been so gracious and thankful for our time and help here. What I do not think that they fully understand is how much a blessing they have been to us! I truly feel as if I have an extended family here in Tanzania.
The next several days will be fairly transient for us. On Sunday, we will be leaving for our 3 day safari to the Ngoron Ngoro Crater and Serengeti (spelling?). What an African adventure it will be riding in safari animals and being up close and personal with the wild animals of Tanzania! We will return here to Arusha on Tues, July 20 and then we will travel to Nairobi, Kenya the next day. On Thursday, July 21, Katie and I leave for the small village of Eburru, Kenya and Becca will be arriving in the States on Sunday, July 25 at 1:50pm. For the next two weeks, Katie and I will be serving the school, church, and clinic that David’s Hope International helps to support. We will be returning to the U.S. on Tues, Aug 10th at 1;50pm. (All are welcome to our homecoming- hint, hint!!:))
While we are in Kenya, I do not know if and/or how often we will have access to email. I will email if I can. Also, for those of you who have our phone number here in Tanzania, it will be changing when we get to Kenya on Thursday. I will try to text or email it when I can. Please pray for Katie and I in Eburru because it is a much more remote location with no running water or electricity. Pray for health, God’s leading, and unity as sisters in Christ as we serve together.
I would love to share more about how God has worked this last week, but time is running short before I have to return to school for my last PE class with the students- my favorite class!!:) However, I will share one quick highlight from this past week. . . This past Wed was our last night with the church body. At the end of church, the congregation gave us each a beautiful Tanzanian wrap as a thank you gift. Then one of the Tanzanian women, Mama Queenie, that we have grown close to said a prayer for us. Although we did not understand the spoken prayer in Swahili, our hearts definitely felt the Holy Spirit’s presence through it.
Asante sana/Thank you from me and my extended family here in Tanzania for your love and support!
Blessings,
KariJ
