Steve and Barnabas in Tanzania

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 ...

This is the second blog concerning the recent mission team from Mauldin United Methodist Church to the school I am currently working with in Tanzania.   This was a first time a team had visited the school since it became a real school.   There is a difference in visiting a preschool and a full fledge school with actual classes going on.   This was also a first for the staff at the school.   The weeks leading up to the team had some rocky moments as the headmaster did not want to give up class time at first.   This is one of those moments where his desire to make the teacher’s like worked in my favor as the teachers all were willing to give up a week of teaching. But once they got on site everyone was happy to let the VBS program take over the school for the week.   With an actual school we had multiple classrooms so we could split the kids up into groups, easily enough by their class designations with just the two standar...