Happy December 13th!!! (I realize it is the 14th, you would have been reading this on the 13th had our internet not been haywire!) This day may not be significant to you, but for our family, it marks the anniversary of our arrival in Arusha, Tanzania. Today we finish our fifth year. Even as I […]

It has been quiet on this blog! If you have wondered what is up with the radio silence, let me tell you a bit about the craziness that has been our life for the last month. First of all, we are in the States!! We arrived in South Dakota on October 15th. We are just […]

This past month has held some unusual and difficult ministry challenges. Not so much with the daycare, as that program is running like a well-oiled machine. About six weeks ago we were contacted by a man that we used to work with regularly when we were the directors of an orphanage. His name is Edward, […]

For the first time in our five years of homeschooling, we have taken a legit ‘summer’ break. I say ‘summer’, because technically it is winter in the southern hemisphere, but whatever. In years past we have just taken breaks when we had people come to visit or when we went back to the States. This […]

This is the letter every missionary dreads writing. I was talking to my sister-in-law a few days ago, and she said something that really made me take a hard look at how I communicate. Our conversation went like this: Me: I am really stressed about money. We have had so many unexpected expenses this month […]

I am sitting in the newly finished playroom/office at the Market Center. It is the first time I have worked in our new office. The kids are sleeping. I smell onions and garlic cooking for the noon meal. Several of the staff are outside debating the arrangement of the playground equipment. They are laughing and […]

During the week leading up to Mother’s Day, we ran a special series on the Walk In Love Tanzania Facebook page honoring some of the mothers who participate in our Kisongo Center. With this, we also launched our new sponsorship program. I want to take a moment to tell you about the sponsorship program. In […]

It is time to address the elephant in the room. Remember back in March when we made a huge Facebook push and released our video announcing the opening of our Market Center? If you missed it, you can find it HERE. We set a formidable goal of opening the new center on April 30th. A […]

Have you been wondering what happened to us after we made our big announcement about the Market Center? We have been steadily working on getting everything in place for the opening of the Market Center, and are happy to announce that we will be opening on April 30th. That is six days away. Be still […]