By Rebecca Tieman, Memphis. TN This was it! All the months of planning, packing, and fund-raising, all the hours and days of travel, all the prayers and Bible studies, emails, and meetings were over. It was really here, we were ready to start. We weren’t visiting another church, school, or mission outpost. We weren’t signing
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Note: This is a story from the trip in 2017. On one of our visits to the bomas in the bush, I was again paired with fellow missionary, Laurie Gent, Pastor Frank Mdindi, along with some locals evangelists. The locals knew who needed a visit and acted as a scribe to record the people visited. Pastor Frank was
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Remembering other articles from Sharon Hyde from her 2014 trip…. Joy is not happiness that comes and goes, but rather true joy that flourishes not only in good times but in hard times. The people we met were all hard workers. They tended crops and livestock. They lived off the land. They didn’t have the
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Mwakidiga is a small village with no churches for miles. Our 2017 mission team visited this area for daily evangelism visits. The pastors and evangelists had been working in this area and over 500 people were baptized in 2017. People often comment after hearing the number of people reached and baptized that they will not
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