Steve and Barnabas in Tanzania

This week is my couple of days off in Arusha to recharge, eat up the almost American style food, have no troubles finding diet soda and so on.  It is rare to get a day off during the work week/weekend as there are so many things to be taken care of especially on weekends.   So I wanted to take a weekend and half a week in Arusha to relax and do some things I enjoy.  Oh what a great plan if only it worked.  The weekends before I went to Arusha the internet was so horrible in town I was having trouble taking my continuing education tests.  I have to have my 30 PDHs for my engineering license by the end of June.  I started going through the online courses and taking the tests about a month ago so I would have no problem.  So far I have completed the studying for 5 of the courses but have only been able to complete one test.  So that got added to the Arusha weekend only the internet only lasts 15 minutes and I have to restart the test each time it re...

Some kids drawn to our worship music I don't know if I have talked much about church at the village or in Singida.  I know I have mentioned Arusha Vineyard Church during my visits to Arusha.  To be honest, I have never liked going to the local churches in my area.  The first reason is obvious, my Swahili is not very good and the services are in the local language.  Again obviously (at least I hope it is obvious), that is my fault not theirs.   Second reason is I get a strong internal focus from these churches in that everything I do understand is mostly about what they are doing for themselves with very little to nothing mentioned about community outreach.  Some of this may be to my not being fluent in Swahili but some of it has to do with my coming from a church that has a 50/50 focus at least with a full 50% of the focus on community outreach/service.  It is something that must be mentioned that I know not all churches are this way in Tanz...