We are happy to report that our team made it to Mwanza in only 43-44 hours (50 turned out to be a bit of an overestimate, much to our collective relief). We didn’t experience any missed flights or lost luggage—praise God! Thank you so much for your prayers for our journey. We are now settled in at the place we are staying, though still trying to retrain our body clocks to adjust to being seven hours ahead of Eastern Daylight Time.
Two members of our team preached in different church services today (Sunday). Ed Kaleefey spoke in the service at the Mwanza Bible Institute, and Don Marrell spoke in another church nearby, next to where Joseph Marwa (the leader of MBI) and his family are currently living.
Tomorrow we begin our week of working at MBI. Ed Kaleefey will be teaching one of the seminary classes, and Ed Weirs will assist with the class as well as help Joseph with accounting and financial reporting. Our team will also be involved with carpentry (Steve and Sandy Zarnosky), children’s programming (Gail Wiers and Brian Patterson), a women’s conference that includes sewing for It’s Our Mission Period pads (Henny Kaleefey and Cindy Marrell), working on the institute’s website (Sam Johnson and Brian Patterson), and teaching for the chapel services (Don Marrell and Sam Johnson). We definitely appreciate your prayers for these tasks in the upcoming week!
Another prayer request for us, actually one of Cindy Marrell’s main prayers for us while we are here, is that we would be an encouragement to Joseph and his family. Joseph has many responsibilities and stressors as the head of MBI, and he and his family are clear targets of the enemy in spiritual warfare.
With love from Mwanza,
Tanzania team