Background: Shortly after independence, Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form the nation of Tanzania in 1964. One-party rule came to an end in 1995 with the first democratic elections held in the country since the 1970s. Zanzibar's semi-autonomous status and popular opposition have led to two contentious elections since 1995, which the ruling party won despite international observers' claims of voting irregularities.
May 13th 2008Africa » Tanzania » North » Moshi We've had a variety of things going on the last couple of weeks. One of the things I'm doing this month is teaching the small children's Bible class. The students range from about 18 months to appro ... 9 photos[full story]
May 12th 2008Africa » Tanzania » North » Moshi This workshop business is exhausting. The moment we get back from dinner I lie down and go to sleep, sometimes unintentionally. Last night Sophie and I were lying in our beds and heard a tap drippin ... [full story]
May 12th 2008Africa » Tanzania » North » Moshi This past week has been a busy week. Brent and I started it off with a day of evangelism in Marangu Mwika. Us along with about 10 members from the Moshi congregation drove up the mountain to eva ... 60 photos[full story]
May 9th 2008Africa » Tanzania » North » Moshi What an amazing week we’ve had! From start to finish, everything that has come our way this week in particular has been an encouragement and a blessing! As a family, we sat and talked about what ... 74 photos[full story]
May 9th 2008Africa » Tanzania » North » Moshi **This entry has deleted itself/not published about ten times (actually only 4), so here is my last desperate attempt to publish it two days after it was written.
I have found wireless internet, an ... [full story]
May 7th 2008Africa » Tanzania » North » Moshi As a disclaimer, I managed to find the only disfunctional keyboard in the internet cafe, so please excuse creative punctuation and spelling - some keys are missing or not working. The shift key is al ... [full story]
May 5th 2008Africa » Tanzania » North » Moshi Greetings, Grace and Peace, to each of you. I know that this report is finding you a day later than normal, after two weeks of dealing with the internet company, we have had to settle for the fact tha ... [full story]
May 4th 2008Africa » Tanzania » North » Moshi Hi everyone. just to let you know that i got back safely for the people who are obviously interested. sorry if you are not but this is the easiest way to get in touch with people.
i will keep in to ... [full story]
May 2nd 2008Africa » Tanzania » North » Moshi Today Julie and I got up and decided to go into town, just the two of us. We needed to get some groceries and run some errands. So we went by the grocery store and then we drove around Moshi for abou ... 49 photos[full story]
April 29th 2008Africa » Tanzania » North » Moshi Today started off with Anthony and Shasta Brown and Sean Hochdorf coming over to the house. They brought some wood from Arusha for Brent to cut with his new tools, so they could build some shelve ... 31 photos[full story]
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