Evangelism on the annual trips to Tanzania is more of a church planting project. The LCMS has a partnership with the Lutheran church in Tanzania. They are educating pastors, building churches, evangelizing, and disciplining the Tanzanian population. Bush evangelism is only the introduction. The visitors drive long distances over dusty roads and walk by foot
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One of the most sobering places we have visited the last few years on our annual mission trip the Buhangija Albino Center in Shinyanga. This is a place where we see the innocence of youth and learn of the evils of man. The Buhangija Albino compound is one of 4 or 5 similar compounds in
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Cindy and Mike Jurgensen of Memphis, TN went to Tanzania two weeks early to spend time at a Lutheran Secondary School. They report their experiences spending time with students there on career day. One student was so excited about Mike’s teaching on his years of being a pilot, that he wrote a letter to him
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By: Judy Irwin There is such great comfort in the knowledge that nothing comes into our lives without first passing through God’s filter, especially when a life changing event occurs. The sudden illness and death of my husband in 2011 was such an event. At the time, I had no idea the journey that the
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