Steve and Barnabas in Tanzania

God has created a world that is both large and small at the same time.  It is large to our human perspective both from our limited mortal timeframe and our small physical size compared to the entire planet.  The world population clock currently has the earth at 7.5 Billion people.  So the times I run into someone here in Tanzania who went to Clemson or is from South Carolina it drives home the small world aspect of the song and original World Fair's attraction created by Walt Disney. When I found out a friend of mine from the engineering community in Greenville was also starting a ministry here in Tanzania I was not only excited but in awe of how things God sets into motion often intersect as a method of reinforcement. Frank DeVita, PE and his brother in law Doug Johnson were building a full primary school in Kiruani.  Their site is about a 3 hour drive from the town of Arusha and below the TCP sugar plantation. They had two buildings for classrooms/headmaste...

This week had a couple special moments to it.  First it rained on monday.  If you want to know what I mean by rain there is a video below.  The noise you hear so loudly is the rain hitting the roof of my "house". The second is a visit by long time friend and engineering colleague, Frank DeVita, PE.  He and his brother-in-law have been working on starting a ministry in Kiruani.  You can learn abou their minisitry at  http://b2buministries.org /  They have a clean water bored well and are currently building a primary school in addition to the various mission teams that come over to work and preach around that area.   Frank and his contractor, Abraham, visited mid week and I met them in Singida then drove them out to our site where the three of us discussed various building techniques and ideas we have for getting rid of bats.  I was happy when they told me they could not even smell the bats in our medical buildings which is a major i...