Women's Ministry

The Women's Ministry Department (WWK) of the TAG have a manual for the individual groups in each church to follow; it basically instructs women how to be a blessing to their church, their pastor, their leadership, their families and their community.
The church at Kisesa was closed for awhile and has been reopened for about a year.  They have started up the WWK group in the church and are attempting to fulfull their goals to be a blessing. 
As part of their efforts, they contacted us and asked if they could visit us in our home and be a blessing to us. 
They arrived on Saturday about 11:00 and stayed for a couple of hours. We sang together, prayed together and spent time getting acquainted.  At the request of the pastor I spent a few minutes encouraging the women and commending them for their desire to be a blessing and for their valuable ministry within the church body.
Women have a very difficult life here and rarely receive any recognition or thanks for what they do.  I always to encourage them and show them my appreciation whenever I have the opportunity.
They brought Tim and I gifts; we each received a piece of material to have a garment made (very common gift here), two watermelons and a bag of oranges.
I had prepared some refreshments for them which they enjoyed; some of the food they were familiar with but I also introduced them to sweet & sour meatballs and banana bread. 
It was a nice visit and the first time for most of them to be in a "white person's" home. 

Babati Church Planting School

Tim has spent a total of about two weeks working on the Church Planting School in the Manyara region in the village of Babati. 
This school will train pastors specifically for the purpose of starting a church in an area where we don't yet have an established church; they will attend for four months before being sent out to plant a church.
Tim and his team put up the metal frame and the roof which is the most expensive and difficult part of the project and the district finishes the project by putting up the brick walls. 
It is one of the ways we partner with the Tanzania Assemblies of God on various projects.  The TAG is growing and maturing rapidly and we continue to adjust our relationship with them as they take the lead more and more in evangelizing their nation and training leaders and pastors.  We praise God for the way that the national church of Tanzania continues to mature and grow into a strong indigenous national church.