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2015 – KBC Tuesday

Published September 22, 2015 | By Cathy Schrull

One of the KBC Students laying bricks for the new staff offices

Kasulu – Last night we ate Deacon Eldah’s house.  She is a teacher at the Bible College and a very brilliant woman.  She would love to be a priest in the diocese, but the diocese synod will not yet accept ordaining home-grown female priests, though they seem to be accepting of women from first world countries who are ordained.

I always enjoy our time with her as the conversation is always very interesting.  This time she had a third year diploma student and her nephew, who is preparing to take university entrance exams as her other guests.  Our discussion ranged from our trip to Gombe, seeing the chimps and our visit at Kagunga.  The discussion turned to how priests are paid in the United States (by whom and how much) and how priests in the U.S. are “assigned” to their parishes.  Like in the U.S., priests in Tanzania are paid by their churches but this can lead to disparity and major differences in life-style between priests assigned to churches in large towns and those assigned to churches in small remote villages.  This led to a discussion of vocational priests – priests who have other jobs and act as priests part-time in the U.S.  I think that this was a totally new concept to the student and Eldah.
 
John, the student, also asked us about how evangelism is done in a country with snow.  How could an evangelist possibly get around?  So we discussed the different ways that we share Jesus with folks in our church and our area.  We took an after-dinner selfie and headed home to bed.

Seen on the way home for lunch: a load of mattresses headed uphill.

 

Today at the Bible College has been spent resetting ip addresses and other clean-up on the existing thin-client stations,  re-configuring a workstation we brought a few years ago that has gotten messed up and playing with the projector we brought.  The projector works REALLY well and we are hoping to have a movie night for the Bible College on Saturday night (Despicable Me …Minions!)  A lot of the staff is not here today as they have traveled to Kibondo to attend Daudi Ndahana’s Dad’s funeral.

One thing you notice about Tanzania is that they are ALWAYS building something somewhere.  You think that there is no land available, you look over, and there is a foundation for something new.  A current project at the Bible College is staff offices.  They are being built by the students in the afternoon after class is done.  These men have have all had other trades before coming to KBC; they include farmers, carpenters, bricklayers, etc. and they are putting their talents to use starting to build the brick walls to the office.

Today I met with the student who will be teaching us kiswahili.  We will only have five or six sessions with him before it will be time to start our journey back home but we hope to begin learning enough to get around a little better and be better able to make polite conversation.  The lessons will start tomorrow at 9:00 am.  Pray that our brains and ears will be awake and aware!

We want to thank you all for your prayers and request that you continue to keep praying for us as we continue with our work and the opportunities that God places in front of us while we are here.   


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