So...... I have been sick and not feeling like writing so I just didn't. I was told today that I should have mentioned that I was sick each day as the reason "we" blog is to let everyone know what is going on each day. SORRY SORRY SORRY
It has been a hard week. The enemy has been busy in Africa and in Redlands. I won't go in to detail except to say that the Newsletter had a glitch, sickness, home school problems due to computer glitches, and on it went. When the week is hard, the body suffers, don't you think? I do!
I need a better place to work in my home. I have a front room that isn't used, but I just can't figure out how to make it usable and still have the comfort and I want to work in the room where my hub spends his time. Sorry to rattle on and on. Aren't you glad I haven't written sick the past few days?
So...... I am signing off with my heart in Africa.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Why am I doing this?
Hi Everyone!
Why am I taking the time to write this blog?
I had NO interest in Africa - really - except I loved some missionaries who serve there. Jen, my spiritual daughter, said that she was going to pray for me to travel to Africa. My thought were, "Well, that isn't going to happen."
However, as the year progressed, God started working in my heart. I began reading more about Africa and before I knew it, I wanted to go so badly. My husband had no interest in going and he said that I was not well enough to go. I asked him to pray about it with me, and then we would re-evaluate. Well, the desire kept growing, and finally we talked about it again. My husband said that he would go to keep an eye on me! That started our adventure of a lifetime in Tanzania, Africa.
When we arrived, I was surprised at how bleak the country was. I was surprised at how the roads were more pot holes than they were roads. I was also surprised to learn that the average income per person is about $800.
Our spiritual family in Africa teaches the Inductive Bible Study Seminars, as I have stated before. Troy goes out in the bush to areas that are dangerous, no bathrooms, rooms with spiders on the walls and so on. He lives with the people he is ministering to for the three days he is there.
We went with him on one Seminar where there was a faction who did not like Christians, and our food had been poisoned with rat poisoning. A "Mama" in the kitchen who didn't read found a piece of paper in the food and took it to the pastor. They had problems like this before, and thank God, the food was discarded and no one ate any of it.
We were run off the road one night. If we had been just a bit further along, we would have rolled the car as there were drop offs on either side.
However, the people in Africa are sweet and loving and so many have a desire to know God in a more intimate way.
More tomorrow with love,
cleinertson
Why am I taking the time to write this blog?
I had NO interest in Africa - really - except I loved some missionaries who serve there. Jen, my spiritual daughter, said that she was going to pray for me to travel to Africa. My thought were, "Well, that isn't going to happen."
However, as the year progressed, God started working in my heart. I began reading more about Africa and before I knew it, I wanted to go so badly. My husband had no interest in going and he said that I was not well enough to go. I asked him to pray about it with me, and then we would re-evaluate. Well, the desire kept growing, and finally we talked about it again. My husband said that he would go to keep an eye on me! That started our adventure of a lifetime in Tanzania, Africa.
When we arrived, I was surprised at how bleak the country was. I was surprised at how the roads were more pot holes than they were roads. I was also surprised to learn that the average income per person is about $800.
Our spiritual family in Africa teaches the Inductive Bible Study Seminars, as I have stated before. Troy goes out in the bush to areas that are dangerous, no bathrooms, rooms with spiders on the walls and so on. He lives with the people he is ministering to for the three days he is there.
We went with him on one Seminar where there was a faction who did not like Christians, and our food had been poisoned with rat poisoning. A "Mama" in the kitchen who didn't read found a piece of paper in the food and took it to the pastor. They had problems like this before, and thank God, the food was discarded and no one ate any of it.
We were run off the road one night. If we had been just a bit further along, we would have rolled the car as there were drop offs on either side.
However, the people in Africa are sweet and loving and so many have a desire to know God in a more intimate way.
More tomorrow with love,
cleinertson
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Hello All,
I have never even thought of writing a blog, but I have a heart for Africa (specifically Tanzania) and I am making jewelry so that I can use 40% of the proceeds to help some missionaries there who are like family to us. Maybe they are more like family than some of the family. :)
This family is reaching out to far reaches of the "bush" in Tanzania to teach "Inductive Bible Study" to pastors and church leaders in Tanzania. They travel to places where other missionaries will not go. These Seminars are three days in length, and the Teacher supplies the materials and the food for these days. Some of the people who attend walk for days to be able to hear this teaching. Sadly, even some pastors don't have Bibles or materials to study. Therefore, Pastor Troy also buys cases of Kiswahili Bibles so that he can give deserving church leaders these tools. He also carries a box with glasses having different strength lenses as some of the pastors and church leaders have poor eye site and therefore haven't been able to read God's Word. I know it is hard to imagine, but there are no books readily available there. There are no local libraries and I saw only one book store the month I was there, but it was too expensive for the average person.
Please stay tuned for more about this project and how God is leading me - tomorrow.
cleinertson
I have never even thought of writing a blog, but I have a heart for Africa (specifically Tanzania) and I am making jewelry so that I can use 40% of the proceeds to help some missionaries there who are like family to us. Maybe they are more like family than some of the family. :)
This family is reaching out to far reaches of the "bush" in Tanzania to teach "Inductive Bible Study" to pastors and church leaders in Tanzania. They travel to places where other missionaries will not go. These Seminars are three days in length, and the Teacher supplies the materials and the food for these days. Some of the people who attend walk for days to be able to hear this teaching. Sadly, even some pastors don't have Bibles or materials to study. Therefore, Pastor Troy also buys cases of Kiswahili Bibles so that he can give deserving church leaders these tools. He also carries a box with glasses having different strength lenses as some of the pastors and church leaders have poor eye site and therefore haven't been able to read God's Word. I know it is hard to imagine, but there are no books readily available there. There are no local libraries and I saw only one book store the month I was there, but it was too expensive for the average person.
Please stay tuned for more about this project and how God is leading me - tomorrow.
cleinertson
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