Bringing Home The Bacon

After being here a few weeks we slowly began to learn where you can by food and local supplies. One of the first things that we looked for was a store that sold good, clean meat. Tanzanians don’t eat meat very often, some only eat it on a holiday or special occasions. They mostly just receive their protein from beans, and an occasional egg or cows milk. The beef or pork is usually hanging up outside all day in the heat, in an open “duka” store, and usually covered with flies. The chicken is usually running around until it is caught and killed. We did find a store in town that has a refrigerator and freezer for storing meat, and it seems to...

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The Church Building

As you know, the church is the people and not the building. So I wanted to take a minute to talk about the Church and the building they meet in. We have been worshiping with the church of Christ in Iringa, Tanzania. It is about 25-30 min. from the house. The congregation, the church, is a small group of men and women. They each have their own story on who taught them the gospel (good news of Christ) and it is going to be encouraging getting to know them better and making new friends. They have expressed excitement in having two missionary families work with them, to encourage them and help build up the congregation. This congregation has been...

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The First Few Days

The first few days we spent staying with the Jensen family (they are the other missionary family that we have been working with), they had moved a few weeks ahead of us. I am glad that it worked out this way, so that they could take care of us for a few days. We went to the house to assess the work that needed to be done before moving in. The Jensens had already taken care of several things before we arrived. They oversaw the building of the wooden fence around the house, before it just had barbed wire. This fence is important for security and to help keep our dogs, and kids, in the yard. They had a water tower built and a water tank added....

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Getting To Iringa

I guess I will start off this new adventure with telling you how our getting here went. It was an adventure in itself. We had a large truck come to move our things and several friends/men of the church, came to help us load it up. It was a 28 ft truck. This means that everything we own had to fit in this truck, all furniture, appliances, everything. We didn’t have a lot of room in our Prado, (SUV type vehicle) with the 5 of us already in it, so we had to make a plan on how we were going to get our 2 very large English Mastiffs, and our miniature Schnauzer, with us. We were fortunate enough to have some friends help us out. We borrowed a friends...

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