Blogs from Arusha, North, Tanzania, Africa - page 61

THE AFRICAN FACTOR If you have ever been over to Tanzania to help with the campaigns, serve as missionaries, or you’ve just sat around long enough to hear the many exciting stories of someone else who has, then the term, “that’s just the African factor” may ring a bell. With all of the differences in cultural thinking, normal ways of life, and just the average way to get things done from day to day is going to vary no matter where you are in this world. As missionaries you have to learn to take the African factor into consideration when working hand in hand with the brethren there. But it dawned on me this morning as we’re traveling about meeting so many new faces here in the states and getting ready to go, that there ... read more

Greetings, Grace and Peace, It is our hope and prayer that your week has been blessed, that you are actively serving the Lord, from where ever you are.Time is begining to sneek up on us. In Just 4 weeks we will be shipping our container, Aug. 18. Only 8 weeks until we will leave for Africa. We want to be able to keep all of you up to date on all that goes on why we are co-laboring in the mission field, so we have created a web site that we will update at least weekly, some pictures daily(depending on the activities and time of year). On the web site we will have an archive of all of our short reports, as well, this is where we will post new things that are happening in our ... read more

We were sitting in a room full of couples, moms, dads, and grandparents. The lights down, a power point presentation running and a box of Kleenex in the middle of each table. The speaker was giving an unsuccessful speech to prepare us parents for our children leaving home. The words were coming out of her mouth, I saw the pictures, but they were not of the Microsoft family she had pasted into her presentation. The pictures I saw were of Joshua. Squatting in front of our home in Monterey sipping the water from a puddle on the sidewalk where it had collected when Anthony washed off the sidewalk after mowing the yard. I saw him peeking out of the dryer from the perfect hiding place when he decided to play hide-and-seek without telling me and I ... read more

I thought since we were going to be talking and letting you in on our lives that it would be nice to introduce our family. A lot of you know Anthony and I - maybe even Joshua, but as for the rest of the family you may not know them. We'll start with the parents. Anthony and I are very fortunate to have parents who even though they stressed out about us leaving and moving to Africa and taking their grandson - have been very supportive and wonderful about our decision. Anthony's parents, Walter and Jean Brown moved from living in the city in Nashville to living in the country in Hickman County Tennessee. Farm life was second nature to Anthony's dad, who along with his sister Nola, was featured in a farming magazine when they ... read more

Let's see …. What else can I tell you to get you up to speed. Joshua graduated High School in May of this year. As you can see, even if I do say so, he's a good looking guy! Takes after his mother.  He was 4 when we moved to Tanzania the first time. He was then, and is now, such a good sport about everything. I have 3 sisters, so my poor Dad lived in a house with 5 women for the better part of his early life. When we found out that his first grandchild was to be a boy …. Man oh Man! Then his 2nd and his 3rd were boys, then 2 girls …. As you can see from the pictures there is a lot of years difference between Joshua and ... read more