Thank you Pastor Amy and 1st United!!

Amazing day and Amazing and gracious Christians at 1st United. Thank you Amy for inviting me to your church to speak about Tanzania and my partners Outreach International. As you said to this large group, God places calls in each of our hearts and the closer we listen the more we learn to do his good work!! I am so thankful for the kindness your parishioners showed me. They were warm and loving and the young girl Emma who donated her own money to help support the Packathon, truly opened my eyes once again to God's grace and mercy. She listened to her own heart at such a young age ~ that is unbelievable to me!!

Speaking about the difficulties the people face in Tanzania reminds me again how lucky we are to live in a very blessed country, but it also reminds me that our help is what they need most.

Thank you for helping me to help them with your support of baskets, coffee, jewelery and art work. You have made many feel blessed by helping them with income they need.

Blessings to all who read this in faith.

Until next time ~

Cheers!!

Outreach Africa

Patience, Understanding, Faith and Hope. These are four words that have become part of my vocabulary in recent months!!! It has always been my hope to feed the hungry. Before I went on my trip, my dream was to be able to have a meal program in place and consistent for those most hungry. I thought I had an idea of what needed to be done. After experiencing their life, I knew that this was a program that I needed assistance with. I would never to be able to accomplish what I had in my heart to do. We accomplished a few months of meals for the school and community, but, this was not the plan that God had in order. I came home and wasn't quite sure how I could accomplish this. Patience, I kept hearing, patience. My partnership with Outreach Africa became official in August. My partners Floyd and Kathy Hammer are two of the most amazing people I have ever met. The work they have done in the Singida Region in Central Tanzania is AWESOME!! They have built a hospital, integrated clean water into their village, built schools, orphanages, built a children's feeding center and have taken hundreds of medical missionaries to help in many different capacities!! They are my mentors, and I am so Grateful I have them helping me, encouraging me, nurturing my calling!! Thank God for Floyd and Kathy, and Outreach, I couldn't ask for better partners!!!

The Journey Continues!!

One of the evenings I was in Mwika I had dinner with a single mother and her two sons. One of her sons was very shy but wanted to learn about me and where I lived and all about the USA. As I spoke to his mother her name Soshe, she explained that her son who was 14 had been through 8 eye surgeries in his lifetime ~ all of which had not been successful.
She handed me his broken eyeglasses, and said these were all that her son had to even see just a little in school. As I held them in my hand, I noticed the arms of the glasses were held together with barbed wire and the lenses had triple bi-foculs. I knew by looking at them, there was no hope. God placed a call within my heart. I brought them back and met a kind eye surgeon who built this young man a new sturdy pair of glasses!! I sent them and "Gift" now has the glasses he needed to see. I have received correspondence from his Mother who has told me that her son is doing very well in school again and is enjoying being able to see!!

I will end with one of my favorite quotes: "To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world" author unknown.