Sunday, July 18, 2010

Iringa - our new home away from home

Jambo! We are here just now! We arrived in Dar late Monday night, and spent a day there, visiting the church of Pastor Paul, one of Pastor Julie's former students, where we spent a few hours in good fellowship. We proceeded to travel to Iringa, after many delays including a broken-down bus late at night. However, we arrived safely and moved into the Lutheran Centre. We are becoming acquainted with Iringa and what it has to offer, and attended church at Cathedral (Lutheran) church early this morning (7:00 am TZ time). It was a short service, lasting only two hours. The two main pastors at church were both prior friends of ours, one being Huruma, another former student of Julie's, and the other Emson Sandigila, who was the pastor at Lulanzi when we first visited there five or six years ago. We are now residing in the apartments, where there will soon be a flurry of activity as new groups come back from their respective villages and move into the Lutheran Centre. On Friday we will be going up to Lulanzi, after which we will have more updates.

2 comments:

  1. Great picture on "the Rock". Reid, I noticed that you almost didn't make it into the picture! You all look happy to be in Iringa, TZ. It will be your home away from home for awhile, so enjoy it to the max. Love to all, Dan

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  2. Ahaaaa....the rock and the beautiful view!! Good to see you all are doing well and enjoying. Don't miss a minute of anything there!

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