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May 27th, 2009 | 
Author: So, we’ve been in Tanzania for over a year and still don’t have a church we regularly attend. We have options, but they’re…. well… challenging. All-Swahili all-the-time is very tiring and even getting just the simplest jist of a sermon is an astounding accomplishment. Spritual nourishment. Nil. Headache. Prominent. Frustration. High. That means making a TZian church our home is pretty much an impossibility.
How do missionaries fill the void that is created when they step out of their culture, their country, their church? One attempt is a twice-a-month English Christian Fellowship. We’ve attended a few times and it’s nice to be around other Westerners and connect with them, but the Jesus connection has to be really, really fought for. The schedule mostly contributes to that as they currently meet on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month at 4pm on Sunday afternoon.
Then comes an idea out of left field. Church online. Something live. Something familiar. Something relevant to us. I remembered hearing about LifeChurch.tv a few years ago but had no need for it at the time as we were still stateside. I wanted to check out one of their live worship experience video streams online. Then, I remembered how we get internet. Slow and expensive. No flat fee. Just, here’s what you pay per MB and hope you can deal with it. We just got a new deal last week (the internet folks here are actually competing now) that gives us 3GB for about $75.oo over 30 days. We decided to give it a try. It came in around 100Mb… affordable!!!!!
Map that was shown of all the countries represented at our first online worship experience
The feeling I got from the ‘experience’, as it is deemed, was one I had long forgotten. I connected. I worshipped. I learned. All right here in our living room! We had church with people from 37 other countries all at the same time! If every week is like what we just experienced as our first, we will have no trouble at all getting our Jesus fix.
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Wow, we are constantly amazed at who God is connecting to through Church Online. We are thrilled that we can bring a familiar church experience for you while you are in Tanzania – if we can ever serve you please let us know!
Wow, I am so glad you came! What a great story. I am so glad that you have found Church Online. Isn’t it amazing how the internet can be used. If you all are ever interested in joining a group or starting one, that can also happen through Church Online. Again great story, and we will see you online!
Thanks for the post! I’ve been a member of LifeChurch.tv for 6-7 years and am more passionate about it than ever. It’s awesome to hear that what we’re doing truly is touching lives around the world. I hope you’ll join our online experiences on a regular basis; you’ll love the One Prayer series that we start in June (check out http://www.oneprayer.com). I’ll keep you in my prayers!
I can totally relate to moving from the US to a different country and not having a church home. Church online has become our family’s church home and I’m so glad to learn of another family it’s ministering to abroad! Hope to meet you online soon!