The sun is shining and the wind has dropped off from overnight.
We have a meeting with the Kihesa Lutheran Church staff. This includes the Pastors, the Evangelists, the Treasurer, the Compassion Incorporated staff including the Director and the Social Worker, the Watchman who watches over us every evening and the Church cleaning and cooking staff.
We discussed the similarities and some of the differences between the structure of each church. We discussed the ways of ongoing Christian education in both churches. Kihesa operates cells, which are lead by the church elders in their local; they meet every week for education and to catch up with church members.
We showed a video of of Saint Marks for an overview. Mark gave a commentary as it played. Jim discussed contributions from the craft sale and Soup Sundays and other fundraising to the Kihesa kindergarten and Kihesa Lutheran Church. We distributed green t -shirts with the
Kihesa Church cross in Tanzanian flag colors and We each have one and now they do too.
Taking a page out of Shepherd of the Valley’s play book, we have prayer cards with pictures of the Saint Marks staff, church council members and travelers on them along with a prayer from Phillipians - ‘you are in my heart’… in English on one side and in Kiswahili on the other. We took instant pictures to attach to the cards. We will leave one with the people here and bring the other set home. Prayer partners.
After that we went to Iringa downtown to pick up a few things that people had made and to do a little more shopping, When we returned we did a lot of hand washing as we are leaving Iringa Saturday very early morning and Friday will be our good bye day.
We were invited to a family’s home for dinner. There was card playing and Hehe dancing. It was wonderful. The head of household had been sponsored thorough his Master’s degree by Linda Aronson.
What a wonderful day ! I hope you are all having the same !
Dawn
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