Jason & Madesha Stapleton
The Stapleton's ChimalaJason
In January 2008, we moved once again to Chimala, Tanzania to work with the Chimala Mission Hospital and Schools. This will be our second tour of work with this particular mission. We had previously served there as missionaries from January 04 to December 05.
Travel Blog Posts
June 18th 2008
Sorry that it has been so long since we have put anything on the blog. Things continue to go well here in Africa. We have just started our annual preacher’s seminar today which will last three days. We have an excellent turnout this year with about 50 preachers in attendance. I had the opening lesson this morning which dealt with sermon preparation. I believe the lesson went well, although we ran short on time. Last month we had our yearly WBS campaigns which lasted nearly the entire month. We worked with 7 different congregations during the campaign. Overall the meetings went well and we had 26 baptisms and 2 restorations. We had an average attendance of 94 each night for the public speaking. Next week we have two more seminars coming up, one for the ... read more
April 1st 2008
Chimala Mission, Hospital, and Schools 5371 New York Avenue Arlington, Texas 76018 (817) 419-7909.Fax (817) 465-1416 Chimala Newsletter - Jason and Madesha Stapleton - March 2008 I hope this letter finds you doing well. I want to take a few minutes to update you as to how the work is going. Over the past few weeks we have busy working with the Simike congregation in the city of Mbeya (about an hours drive from the mission). During our time there we have spent several days going house to house as well as visiting some of the fallen Christians. As result of the work there we had four restorations and one baptism. Our final day of working there we conducting a meeting with the congregation and had a very good turn out with about 20 in ... read more
March 9th 2008
The Wall Came Tumbling Down This past week has been a very interesting week. It all started with water problems - the rains have prematurely stopped and you might have guessed we didn’t get the intake fixed. So this last Monday we lost all water, which is a big deal, for the Hospital, missionaries, primary school, students dorms, teacher homes, the nursing quarters and the village in front of us all depend upon this water. So Tuesday we went to work on a new intake from the river which was a huge job but we got it done Wednesday with the help nearly 50 natives. We were so thankful for the turn out of volunteers for without them we would most likely still be there. There is power in unity! Wednesday was another interesting day ... read more
February 26th 2008
I wrote this a few weeks back but our internet service wasn’t working so well so I never got a chance to publish it. Another week has come and gone and all is well. At times it’s hard to believe we are actually in Africa and regardless of how many times we tell ourselves we are here sometimes we just forget. Like yesterday, I went to Mbeya our nearest city to buy 3 refrigerators for the mission, of course in the back of my mind I thought this would be no more than a three hour deal anyways some six and a half hours later we finally made it home and on top of it all our refrigerator didn't work. Or like last Sunday when we went to get something to eat after worship in ... read more
February 10th 2008
We boarded the plane January 18th and arrived here in Tanzania on the 20th. By far it was the most eventful, tiresome trip we have ever made. It started out with the cancellation of our first flight, which was to leave at 1:30 from DFW to Chicago O'Hare. Everyone who was going out on that flight began searching for another flight there in the terminal. After seeing the huge line I decided to leave the terminal and go back to the ticket counter and with luck we were able to get tickets for the 4:30 flight to Chicago O'Hare. Now it gets even better, because they reissued our tickets we became some sort of a security risk, which meant that all of our hand bags had to be gone through and swabbed, and we had ... read more
January 3rd 2008
This past Monday we said our goodbyes to family and friends in Southern Indiana and have made our way to Arlington, Texas. We are here in Texas visiting family, friends and supporting congregations. A New Date Our tickets have now been purchased and we are now set to leave on January the 18th instead of the 22nd. With the change in dates we will arrive in Tanzania on the 20th. ... read more
December 21st 2007
The date has been set! On January 22, 2008 we will board the airplane once again to make our way to Tanzania, East Africa. We will travel from Dallas, to Chicago, to London and from London to Tanzania. For those interested the total travel time from Dallas to Chimala not counting the layovers is around 28 long hours. As of right now we are still in Southern Indiana tying up loose ends. On the 31st we will travel to Texas to visit with family, friends, supporters and our overseeing congregation. Please pray for us to have a safe journey and for our work to be successful. We want to thank God and all of our supporters for making this possible. Happy Holidays! ... read more
November 21st 2007
Well January is almost here and it will be time for us to go. We are excited, nervous and anxious to get back to Chimala, Tanzania East Africa . If all goes as planned we will be back in Chimala by mid January. We still have a lot to do before we get there and can't wait to do it. I have posted some pictures of our lives there taken back in 2005-2006. ... read more
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