We did finally find Sambasha and it has given me cause to reflect on this past year. A little over a year ago, I joined Ed in Tanzania to begin a different phase in our lives. Upon arriving in Tanzania, Ed and I had the privilege to work with an OMEGA team (http://www.omegamission.org/) from our home church, Aldersgate, in Lubbock, TX. In recent years, OMEGA has partnered with the Sambasha community to build classrooms for a nursery school as well as building walls on their church. The congregation of Sambasha, under the leadership of Pastor Saitoti have a passion for Jesus Christ and have planted 9 other churches, with little thought of their own facility. This is what their building looked like a year ago with scrap lumber for walls.
One year later, the church is 3 times the size and there are solid walls and a roof. As a result of partnering with OMEGA, the church has nearly enough money to complete the church. Posting an update as things progress will be a privilege. Here is Sambasha today.
As always, it is a joy to reconnect with friends, after a year's separation.
What an adventure this past year has been!!!!
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Our church in Greenville, South Carolina put the roof on Sambasha in 2007....after a failed attempt that collapsed and could have injured many workers. We were there in 2006 and 2007 and enjoyed the wonderful fellowship with the people. What a spirit of the Lord you will meet among His people in Tanzania.
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