Steve and Barnabas in Tanzania

To be technical this is actually a tiny apartment not a house.  Many of you told me how much you enjoyed my stories or cringed during my discussions of living in the tiny house at my previous site.  So many were happy about my living conditions with the new site, that I hated to tell everyone that house actually would be used by the incoming headmaster for the school.  The original idea was that I could use one room in the house, but he came with two kids (one newborn) and a niece that was helping his wife out.  It did not seem the right thing to move in with them all, so I have been searching for a new place to live either in the area of the work or the nearest town, Moshi.   The first couple of weeks I stayed in a hotel after I negotiated a better weekly price.  That was a nice set up seeing how they had air conditioning and with it being hot 22 hours a day that was a nice touch.  But alas, I refused to allow myself to stay there as the negoti...

Yes it is time to discuss electricity (Umeme) again.  Why?  I don't know because I have not done so in a while.  Because I had to fix several electrical items on site this week.  Because I never discussed putting the solar system on the headmaster's house.  Because I can't think of anything else specific to talk about.  Who knows.   after electricity installed before electricity installed As part of the discussion we will also talk about the water pump system at the school site.  Today when I went to site, I was told it quit working.  After about an hour long discussion they had a problem with the generator and took it to a local repair shop to get it fixed but they have not gotten any electricity from the generator to the well pump since getting it back.  Typically that would indicate the repair person fixed the gasoline engine disconnected a part of the system that generates electricity or allows it to flow from the ele...

Before I forget to include it later in the blog, I have a link to Blessed2BlessU Ministries, Inc. January 2018 newsletter which features an article about myself as well as a great piece in on Pastor Rogers Mnzavas. Today marks the first week back in the Moshi to Kiruani area and the start of my 5th year in Tanzania. During my trip back home speaking to various groups, I informed them of the tragic thing to happen here while I was gone.  I realize though many of my readers may not have been in those groups so you don't know about Pastor Rogers Mnzavas passing over Christmas week.  Rogers was my age when he died unexpectedly. Pastor Rogers was the Tanzanian heading things up for us here in Tanzania.  While the school was the brainchild of Pastor Stephen Molle, it was Rogers who first introduced Pastor Doug Johnson to Stephen and also started up an NGO to run the school through. His passing left many questions for all those in the USA while I was still almost a month f...