Steve and Barnabas in Tanzania

One of the great things about a tiny house is the fact it takes a lot less time to clean because there is less house to clean.   In many ways that is also true here in Tanzania.   There is a lot less house to clean, sweep, and mop up.   Cleaning up is something you also tend to do more regularly-at least for me.   For example, I don’t have a lot of dishes, pots and pans because I don’t have a lot of room to store them.   Because of this I tend to wash my dishes right after each meal.   I will need those same items for the next meal. There is one way in which cleaning a Tiny House in Tanzania is a bit more difficult.   I want to point out I am specifically talking about one in Tanzania and I expect cleaning a normal sized house in Tanzania would take a lot longer than it takes for me to do this same task in my Tiny House.   The area in which I am talking has to do with cobwebs and insects.   We don’t have air conditioning, so the ho...

This trip home to the states is coming to a close and I have been working to create a blog that gives a lot more detail about what a Virtual Mission Trip, what types of Virtual Mission Trips we need and how to go about creating one.  I will eventually takes this blog and post as a tab at the top of the page here on my blog site so people can find it easily and reference it often.  I will also attempt to update it with Virtual Mission Trips I have received. What is a Virtual Mission Trip? This is one of those not so crazy ideas I get when I am walking for miles on dirt roads.  It really is not anything new, just a more focused view for those wanting to participate in projects to help others.  A Virtual Mission Trip is where you (or someone helping you) creates a video we can show our students, our teachers or the community in general that helps in some way just as if you spent thousands of dollars and took a week or two off work and traveled here to do something wi...