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 approximately 6 or 7. I really enjoy teaching these little ones; it has been quite a while since I've taught this age. The ladies have it set up where the same teacher teaches for a month, and so I volunteered to teach the small class during the month of May. Last Sunday I taught a class on "Jesus Wants Us to Be Good Workers". We [View Full Entry]

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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 evangelize to the people of Marangu. It is about a 45min drive for us to get to the village. When we arrived we divided up into our teams to go out and set up some Bible studies. My team was 3 of the African ladies from the church, Abigail, Elizabeth, Teresa and me. So of course the whole time we were walking from [View Full Entry]

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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 dripping really loudly and rather than walk the 6 feet to the bathroom to investigate we decided to shirk our environmental responsibility and just pass out. The electricity has been really unreliable for the past two days, and without the white noise of our fan I was woken up fairly early by the call to prayer from the mosque in town. It's funny how you become [View Full Entry]

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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 all has been going on this past few months, and tried to draw together the things which strengthen our spirits and encourage us individually, what are those things that just make your day brighter and let the Love of the Lord fill you from your head to your toes! Across the board it was when we find ourselves doing for others, that we feel the [View Full Entry]

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**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, and am able to work on my lap top. The good news is that it is faster than almost all the dial up connections in town. The bad news is that I can no longer blame my typos on the keyboard, and someone in Dubai is probably stealing my identity. When I log on it takes me to Google Nigeria. Enough said. We have moved into a hotel [View Full Entry]

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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 also MIA and this capslock business is seriously slowing down my creative energy. Ah well. The title to this entry is different than originally planned - read on to see why! First of all, my flights here were uneventful. This is almost unheard of...in fact many people who fly with me once refuse to do so a second time. Between massive delays, lost luggage, and terrorist threats, [View Full Entry]

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TANZANIA MISSION REPORT Brent & Julie Richardson PO Box 1727 Arusha, Tanzania East Africa email: Brent - JBrentRichardson@gmail.com TZ phone:011 255 755 539 399 email: Julie - JulieRenae75@gmail.com TZphone:011 255 783 379 955 Sponsoring Congregation: Northport Church of Christ, PO Box 333 Northport, AL 35473 THE BLESSINGS OF A GOOD DAY! 1 Corinthians 16:18 "For they refreshed my spirit and yours: acknowledge ye therefore them that are such." At first the title may sound a little bit rhetorical, but do we really know the blessings of the good days? In my case, I think that I may have forgotten to remember [View Full Entry]

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Nairobi, Kenya was described as a very scary place in all of the travel books, but we found it to be easy to navigate and the people helpful. Tourists still seemed to be scarce due to the low season and the politcal unrest (which was mainly to the west of Nairobi and is on hold)...which we found to be very helpful in negotiating prices. We arrived from the paradise of the Seychelle Islands expecting a huge let-down, but Kenya and Tanzania have been wonderfully amazing. We got to Nairobi in late afternoon just to see a bright orange sunset over the [View Full Entry]

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Hey Everyone, I have been sitting on this entry for a few days now hoping I would get the whole picture "shida" (problem) figured out, but every time I try to add a photo my computer shuts down completely. Go figure. Soooo, I decided, if this entry is going to be relevant, I'd better post it today, since it IS Saturday. Just wanted to share in my excitement and anticipation. I am excited about Sunday. I've been teaching the ladies in Monduli concerning the roll of the woman; at home, in the community, and in the church. I gave each lady [View Full Entry]

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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 that we are just not going to have reliable internet with them any time soon. What does that mean? For us it primarily affects the web site. We have decided to suspend it for a time, until the problem is resolved or we are able to switch companies. So for the immediate future I will be sending out the short reports via Travel [View Full Entry]

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