Steve and Barnabas in Tanzania

I realize many of you will not realize what a big deal that is, but is Mt. Kilimanjaro big.  For my entire six years as a missionary, I have had to travel to a larger town and type my blog in while I was somewhere that either had wifi or at least cell phone service.  As of this week we now have cell phone service in Kiruani.   This comes with some ups and downs as well.  First the government moved ahead with their promise to cancel all  phones not registered using their new national id system (yes that is a thing here).  Since I only have a visa I could not get an id and my phone number I have been using was cancelled.  The local pastor is letting me use one of his extra phone numbers (most Tanzanians in any real position have 4 or 5 phone sim cards and numbers).  Using that phone card and the new tower, I have made a phone call home from the site without having to stand on one leg over the sewer pit like I used to do at my other site that would get me a minute and half of connecti

Hello everyone and welcome to 2020.  Something weird about saying that.  I almost feel like I am back in the 1980s and that is a commercial for a home computer from Tandy at Radio Shack.  Regardless of my old person issues, we are here in 2020.  I wanted to take a moment and reflect on 2019 at the school then get into what we working towards in 2020. For a short version of our 2019 year in review you can check out the following video: For those that want a more detail look back at 2019 keep reading: Let's start with some of the things we are still doing that we have mentioned in previous year updates: We continue to have morning devotions using Best Loved Bible Stories books purchased in Arusha.  The big change is that students from Standard I and II now read the stories to the pre-school students every morning. Every Friday we have a Bible Class.   Thursdays we have student presentations (they refer to it as debate) where we also do competitions and ed