Thursday, September 11, 2014
Cute Kiddos at Our Center!
Here are some adorable faces of children at our center. Their parents are in our 3-month church planter training course, all of whom will be going out to plant churches in unreached areas. Loving the opportunity to hang out with these kiddos!
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Holidays
Was this past weekend really Labor Day? Did I just
completely miss it? The evidence rings true that it in fact was a holiday weekend
with all the Facebook pictures of babies in swimming pools, talk of an extra
day off work, and snapshots of delicious food to celebrate the break that
Americans took to have some fun in the sun. What is it about living over 8,000
miles away from this that makes us forget to take holidays?!? I feel like over
the past year, I have completely missed a few only to realize it after the fact
by reading all the posts on Facebook. Memorial Day – yep completely missed
that! And I would have missed 4th of July had we not celebrated
together as a team!!
But, the neat thing is to see what kind of holidays they have here in Tanzania. Actually, we just had two that I have to share about. The first was called SABA-SABA. It means the 7th day of the 7th month, so July 7th was a holiday around here. Then, August came and our employee manager informed me that NANE-NANE was coming up and would be a holiday, too. This means the 8th day of the 8th month, so again on August 8th they had another day off. When he told me this, I looked at him in shock. Really? This was a holiday? What for? I thought he was pulling my leg. The best part came when I asked him, “Well, does this mean you’ll also have a holiday on TISA-TISA, meaning the 9th day of the 9th month?” He looked at me like I was crazy and laughed telling me of course not, that would just be silly. He was shocked as to why I’d even ask that! Oh, conversations with Tanzanians make me smile so much!
But, the neat thing is to see what kind of holidays they have here in Tanzania. Actually, we just had two that I have to share about. The first was called SABA-SABA. It means the 7th day of the 7th month, so July 7th was a holiday around here. Then, August came and our employee manager informed me that NANE-NANE was coming up and would be a holiday, too. This means the 8th day of the 8th month, so again on August 8th they had another day off. When he told me this, I looked at him in shock. Really? This was a holiday? What for? I thought he was pulling my leg. The best part came when I asked him, “Well, does this mean you’ll also have a holiday on TISA-TISA, meaning the 9th day of the 9th month?” He looked at me like I was crazy and laughed telling me of course not, that would just be silly. He was shocked as to why I’d even ask that! Oh, conversations with Tanzanians make me smile so much!
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