Eyes to See, Ears to Hear

Riding out to a local playground brought us up behind this fellow… at least we think there was a fellow in there some where.  You should’ve seen how the bicycle frame bent when he went over bumps!

I was out shopping yesterday evening in town in a frequented store called Azra.  My market man (I text him my vegetable shopping list and he delivers to me at Azra) brought me my order right as I was checking out at the store.  He knew another customer who was there shopping and she asked [...]

I’ve got a pastor friend here in TZ who recently left his rather large, electronically-well-equipped church because of a dispute.  I don’t know or understand the details of the parting, so I’m definitely not going to make a judgment of who I think is in the right or wrong.  This friend had followers leave the [...]

To arrive at our house it is advised to have 4WD.  After driving about 0.5 mi into the neighborhood (all rough dirt road) you descend into a small valley.  From there, the short, steep climb up to our house is about a 300 ft increase in altitude.  Remember… all dirt.  And what time of the [...]

Just before quittin’ time yesterday, a good Tanzanian friend of mine called me.  He said, “Jonathan, God has been good to us!”  I asked him why he said that.  He proceeded to tell me that someone had brought to him a cassette tape duplicator trying to sell it.  He noticed it matched the description of [...]

A whole lotta flip-flopping was going on this past weekend.  Kinda felt like I stood a baseball bat on end, touched my forehead to it, ran myself around in 100 circles, and stood up in an attempt to race to the other end of a football field.  Here’s the scoop…
For months now, our 10-language project [...]

This is the place we stayed at on our first stop on the way to conference.  We liked it a lot with the exception of the short bed.  It was really difficult trying to sleep diagonally.  FYI, I’m 6′3″.  The room was Tsh. 50,000.

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 [...]

Last Wednesday, I was going here, going there, trying to deal with the theft we experienced the night before. While we were out, I stopped at the office to drop something off for a friend. Joey M., a Tanzanian pastor working with the language project in the area of partnership, told me of [...]