Steve and Barnabas in Tanzania

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...

To view almost all the photos I took you can go to  Steve's photo album The team arrived Saturday, June 17 at the Kilimanjaro International Airport which is about 1 hour away from Arusha where they would be staying their first night in Tanzania.  Normally we use the safari vehicles to pick everyone up at the airport, but this time our safari company (called Cheeky Monkey) used what is called a coasta.  A coasta is a medium sized bus which was perfect for everyone to get a comfortable seat and the luggage.  It took a rather long time for the team to get through immigration.  About an hour and a half but this is normal in Tanzania.  Also, normal in Tanzania is to have every bagged checked at the customs stop and when you bring in items for VBS they want to tax it.  This year it was the bears they wanted to tax.  It took me about half an hour to convince them they did not need to tax the bears and get them loaded up on the coasta.  ...