Assuming all is going according to plan, Dean is likely at or near the Mt. Kilimanjaro summit about now.
The rest of the group leaves for Tanzania tomorrow. You will all be in our thoughts and prayers and we look forward to hearing about your experience!
Mungu awabariki!
(God bless you!)
Welcome to the Gethsemane/St. Stephen's mission trip to Tanzania blog! This June, Clay Morlok, Judy Hinck, Denny and Jeanene Zimdarsare, and Ruth Yocum from Gethsemane Lutheran Church in Maplewood and Dean Hostager and Tracy Westman from St. Stephen's Lutheran Church in West St. Paul will be visiting their sister congregations in Pommern and Ihimbo. We are looking forward to our "bega kwa bega" (shoulder to shoulder) journey with our brothers and sisters in Tanzania!
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Our plan is to stay the first three days in Iringa, visiting an orphanage, a secondary school, Tumaini university and the Diocese office. After that we will split up and visit our sister congregations. Clay, Ruth, Judy, and Denny will visit Pommern. Dean and Tracy will visit Ihimbo. We will worship at the village churches and we will also travel to many "preaching points" surrounding each village. Our goal is to let the people we meet know that they are loved and supported by people halfway around the world, and that we stand with them bega kwa bega, different in many ways but indistinguishable in God's grace and love.
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