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Richardsons - Brent & Julie

Brent & Julie

RICHARDSON FAMILY 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 TZ phone:011 255 783 379 955

Sponsoring Congregation: Northport Church of Christ
PO Box 333 Northport, AL 35473
Stateside Contact: Deacon of Missions, Gary Box
email:GLBoxcpa@aol.com phone:(205)333-0486



Our family has just returned to Tanzania, East Africa to work once again with the TZ2000 Mission efforts in the cities of Arusha, Moshi, & Kisongo and the surrounding areas. This will be our 2nd time to live and work in Tanzania, where we were missionaries in Arusha in 2002. This time we will be living and working in Moshi, Tanzania with the Kilimanjaro Bible School and Church of Christ.

Brent Richardson & I were married in January of 1996 (12 years next Jan.)and have loved facing one adventure after another, together hand in hand along with our children, ever since. Emily Richardson, Garrett Richardson, & Gracie Richardson. We are hoping that through this journal you may find a glimpse of what goes on in the day to day life of a missionary family, our family and allow you to get to know us as we travel and make the journey and transistion of moving to a 3rd world country with an American family of 5 and also allow you to have an avenue of information about the Church of Christ Mission work in Tanzania,East Africa.

Brent & I both grew up in Texas, living the American Dream... I was raised as an airforce Brat, moving around the world from place to place, but lived primarily in Abilene, TX through the High School years and on into college. Brent lived in one town his entire life until he married me, and the adventure has been on ever since! He grew up in the small country town of Rhome, TX where my grandparents have lived all my life. We met at my cousin's wedding and were paired up at the rehearsal to walk down the aisle together the first day we met, and did it again the next day, and the relationship began to blossom in the months to come. We were married there in Rhome in 1996 and Since that time, Brent served in the US Air Force for 4 years as a Firefighter, and then was rehired back into the same Dept. in Wichita Falls, TX as a civilian for 2 more years, before we moved out to Lake Texhoma and lived in the Gordonville, TX area raising our children on the lake before entering the mission feild. I had been a stay at home mom while the children were young, and will cherish those years for a lifetime!

We left for Tanzania in 2002 and served here for a little over 8 months before the unexpected death of my mom, Kayla Wear, at the early age of 46, so we returned to the states to be near family. Brent almost imediatly, was hired as the full time preacher and we lived there in Ryan, OK for 3 and a half years, serving the church there seeing it grow and getting attached to the friends there that we dearly love, and it was perfect for us all, being just an hour's drive away from family. I ran and opperated my own Photography Studio for the three years we were there in Ryan, and that's where my love for taking pictures began to develop into what it is today. During that time we adopted our nephew Kelly Brannum at the age of 15 and our family grew instantly! Kelly lived with us for 4 years, and is now planning on attending Preacher Training school in the states at the age of 19. We returned to Africa on Summer Mission trips almost every year, while we were in OK and the love for Tanzania, continued to press on our hearts! So in 2006 we began the process of headed back this way for full time service in the mission field once again. And we are currently here in our second year, of our second missionary journey! And that's where the blogs begin..... just prior to making the move to Africa with the family!


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Glimpses of a Brighter Day
Glimpses of a Brighter Day
Mt. Meru from Usa River
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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Learning to have Honor & Respect
Emily reading to the Children!
Julie handing out New books to the children!

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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Teaching the Children
Working to Build up the Church!
Busy little Hands!

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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T.I.A. This is Africa!
T.I.A. This is Africa!
from the mouths of babes! Gracie's Picture for Mom this week!
It’s funny the things you learn about yourself through the eyes of your children. I hadn’t noticed that we used this phrase as much as I guess we do day in and day out, but Gracie made me a picture the other day that said, “This is Africa!” otherwise known as TIA! ~ Our household motto! And we’re finding that it’s a much broader used term than we realized. The other day we overheard some people eating dinner using the same coin phrase as well. Nothing derogatory, just the simple fact that in Africa, things are a little different, on a [View Full Entry]

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Duck ala Bag!
Quilted handbags
Hitting the Books hard lately!

By Richardsons
April 26th 2008

Shades of Mission Work

 Africa » Tanzania » North » Moshi
The lives we touch
The lives we touch
You never know who you're going to meet and what needs you will find.
If We Faint Not…. Consider the ever changing faces of the harvest fields, how the seasons determine the farmer’s plans, the time for planting and the time for sowing, for reaping and the work and the effort put into each crop that can vary from place to place. How life changes so drastically between the dry and rainy season here in Tanzania! How the lack of harvesters may actually hinder the yield. Luke 10:2 “Therefore said he unto them, the harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send [View Full Entry]

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Mt Kilimanjaro on a clear cloudless day
Brent preaching Sunday Evening
LOVE

We've been looking back over the many faces that have passed through our lives here in Tanzania over the past 6 years.... from 2002 to 2008 Philippians 1:3 "I thank my God upon all my remembrance of you" So many of you are more than friends, but our extended family abroad! And we love and cherish each and every one of you. Your faithfull support of this work and our family, through the years and the great example you have been to all who have known you and heard your many stories of Africa, will carry on for a lifetime! Romans [View Full Entry]

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Lunch on the fly....
2001 Brent
2002 Our family adapting to life in Tanzania

APRIL marked the 1 year Anniversary for the Train the Teacher's Workshop for the Ladies in Moshi! This past Saturday we had our monthly Train the Teachers workshop at Moshi, the ladies gather together to share in teaching techniques and ideas to help build up the children's Bible classes and the ladies abilities to teach them. While we were few in number this month, it was still a wonderful Ladies Class. We taught the first couple of months as we began this class a year ago this month, and then moved into letting the Tanzanian women take turns coming up with [View Full Entry]

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Neema being baptized
The FINISHED new board!
Emily Holding onto Faith... Singing together

The Amazing Sparkling Sun rays
The Amazing Sparkling Sun rays
off the eastern coast of Tanzania, at a little place called "Paradise" ~Peponi~
The reason you haven’t heard from us in a week or so now is, that last week we were finally able to get away for a little rest and relaxation with the family. We had been planning on this trip for some time now. We were joined by Kelly & Callie, and 3 of the Hochdorfs; Anita & the kids Race and Maddie. I thought you would enjoy seeing a different side of Africa, the tropical coastline... Peponi, the place we like to camp at, means Paradise in Swahili, and it truly is! Every time we stand there at the camp [View Full Entry]

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The Road to Pangani
The Perfect patterns created in the sand....
The view from the tent.

My Babies
My Babies
everyone's growing like weeds!
Well, After a long busy month, we decided to slow things up a bit and focus on our kids and the family. Getting the house back in order, having a “down” week so to speak, we had planned on taking the kids away to go camping, again which we seem to do about once every 3 or 4 months or so, but it’s the kids favorite get away! Camping was the plan… Flat tires seemed to be the set back… So, We’ve had to delay getting away until the first of the month, to be able to cover the unexpected [View Full Entry]

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Downtown Moshi
Brent Preaching at the Boma Ngombe Church of Christ
Teaching from the Swahili Bible

Our Nephew Kelly is here with us along with our sweet friend Callie Donaldson, they have both been living with us for the last month now and will stay here up through the campaigns in June. So we Have a Houseful, but that's something that I love and cherish every moment of! This is Callie's Senior Trip after completing her Homeschooling back home, So this week we took her Senior Pictures here in Africa! No better place I can think of for how much a part of her life this coutry and Mission field has been. We love you all [View Full Entry]

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