Tomorrow I leave for Tanzania.
God help me in my journey and keep my family safe and sane while I'm away.
-Dean
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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I have been thinking about you since yesterday....OK I thought of you before that but now I know that you have been in the air and soon arriving! Be safe on your walking trek up the mountain! Prayers are with you. We got a goft from church...I will tell you about it later!
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