In the month of September Friedhelm, Rosy, Torkild and Resti left to inaugurate 7 churches in different villages. They were staying in a guest-house in Singida and drove to the inaugurations from there.
Rosy and Friedhelm are from Germany, but since May 2010 have been living in Arusha. Friedhelm works for Reinhard Bonnke, who’s based in Nigeria.
A part from Friedhelm’s work with Bonnke, he also works with construction of churches in Tanzania. Once a year they leave for Germany to collect funds for this work.
Singida’s located 340 km from Arusha, so in all they drove 1.200km on this trip. They were very happy about not encountering any problems with the car or other.
They’d some wonderful and blessed inaugurations.
Often on Torkild’s children campaign in various villages he notices unfinished churches without roofs.
These are generally very expensive so often the congregations don’t have money to put on the roof. He then takes photos of these and bring them with him back to show to Friedhelm, whom he knows has a great vocation for this.
Kisaki 8 km from Singida:
Lohoda 100 km fromSingida, where Torkild plans to have a campaign :
Makiungu 30 km from Singida:
Mtinko 45 km from Singida:
Mtipa 4 km from Singida. The pastor and his family in this village are very very poor, and we decided to give them money for food for the next 6 months:
Mwachichi 15 km from Singida:
Nambaro 3 km from Singida:
The father disappeared and they have had no contact with him for several years. Ruth is a bright girl in school. Her school decided to sponsor her schooling because they are really poor. For various reasons the school recently shut down and Ruth had to find another school.
The mother cannot afford to send Ruth to another school. Ruth’s grandfather is a Maasai and he wants to have her back in Maasai land. He does not want a girl to get eductaed, but instead follow the Maasai traditions for girls: to be married. Maasais think that only boys should get educated.
Ruth’s mother told me that Ruth’s grandfather had received an offer from an elderly, wealthy Maasai who wanted to pay a very large dowry in the form of many cows in order to marry Ruth. Ruth had been desperate because she wanted to stay in school, get her education and choose her husband when the time was ripe. For this reason the mother and Ruth came to our office asking for help.
We trusted God and sent Ruth to a good, Christian school where she is thriving.
We received a sponsor who will support her until Form 4 is completed. But Ruth wishes to continue for another two years and graduate from High School. If any of you would like to support Ruth for a few more years please write us or send a gift to our missions account. Please earmark it “Ruth”.
