Saturday and Sunday: The work and worship begins

No electricity on Saturday and without Bonnie to remind me, I let the camera battery die.  So no pictures of the Bread of Life Secondary School, the farm, or my afternoon watching the soccer and playing a little volleyball with the staff and kids. 

Saturday I met with the builder and inspected the construction site. Things are looking good.  The quality of construction is improving with each construction projection.  The main thing is that they now understand a different quality of work is expected.   To the builder’s credit he has really made improvements over this project and the previous construction.   The classroom buildings are complete, the toilets and septic system is in, the laboratory building is complete, the administrative building is 50% complete.   The Dining Hall/Assembly Hall/Kitchen is to be completed, water lines, viable alternative energy source (Solar Power), desks and chairs, books, some landscaping, and laboratory equipment.   One of the reasons that I traveled to Tanzania was to access viable energy sources and actual power needs.  

YOU CAN HELP: WE NEED USED Laptops.  We will clean them of data.   Our goal is to be able to rebuild 50 laptop computers for the secondary school. 

Sunday means worship with Kidete Baptist Church, Kidete, and ACTS Fellowship in Iringa.   These are two completely different worship services.  The Kidete church is a village church and very basic in music and worship.   ACTS Fellowship is contemporary and home church for the Daily Bread Life Children’s Home staff and children and many university students.    This Sunday in Kidete,  we had four women who asked for prayer during the service.  One had returned to the fellowship after a time of absence, another was sick, a third one received Christ, and the fourth had a demon.   She had gone to Dar Es Salaam as a house girl (a housekeeper).  In Dar, she came under the influence of a demon.  We layed hands on her and prayed for her.  Then, one of the ladies of the church, a deacon, took her to another place where she counseled with her and prayed for her.   I am always reminded in Africa of spiritual warfare that exists in this world.   In the USA, we have become very sophisticated in our approach to evil in this world.  The spiritual is very compartmentalized.  Here, everything has spiritual significance.  

In ACTS fellowship, we had two guests from the Iringa International School who were invited by Mark and Sam Mwaisumbe to worship.  The two ladies are teachers of Mark and Sam.  The Daily Bread Life older children (youth/young adults) led in the singing.   They were great.  The church also celebrated the Lord’s Supper. 

I spent the afternoon just relaxing and reading.