Steve and Barnabas in Tanzania

The Tumaini Evangelistic Pre & Primary School choir This week was once again a full week.  I started the week by typing in the tests the teacher's  prepared for the end of the school year.  To say I was horrified at some of the questions is an understatement.  First understand school is a lot different here than what we are used to.  The questions are all directly from their text books.  They don't create any new materials even in math here.  All the same many of the questions had to be corrected from the book. For example one question was to use 5 words listed at the top to complete sentences.   All the words in the list were parts of the body used to do things except the last one which was carcass. The questions all go along the line of we use our __________ to hear our mother call us, and you would answer ears. So the question you use carcass for goes like this:   We feel smell of carcasses by __________. Where carcas...

I have made the following confession before in this blog:  I often feel like I am a poor prayer warrior.  It is a part of my Christian life I feel is always in need of help.  It is not that I don't believe prayers are answered (I do believe that while all prayers are answered sometimes the answer is not yet or just no as opposed to Garth's song Unanswered Prayers ). The last 12 months have been filled with prayers and many of the answers I got were not what I wanted some were.  This kind of up and down year (and back up again) can make you take stock in things and see what is working for you and what is not.  Of course since this also happened in my fiftieth year some might call it my mid-life crisis, though it is less crisis and more a "deal with the situation" for me. My failures in my prayer life are most likely the same as many Christians face.  It is the daily routine of specific time with God in conversation.  I am always up if asked to praye...