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Rainy Season has Begun

That is a strange statement, as we have been having rains since November! However, we just had about 4 days of very windy weather and blue skies, which herald the rains! And today, it started raining again.  Seems the whole world’s weather pattern is out of whack!
“Signs of the times are everywhere,
There’s a brand [...]

Rachel Becomes Sharon

Saturday morning, early, Jerry and Tammy Backus, along with their 4 year old daughter, Rachel;  a lawyer;  and Esther from Imara Ministries, went to the village of Baby Rachel’s family. Both of Rachel’s parents are dead, so the grandparents signed all the legal forms for the Backus family to adopt her.  Her new name [...]

Mark

Yesterday the uncle of Lowasa, referred a Maasai father to us, whose wife died two weeks ago, leaving a little boy. They came back today with the appropriate paperwork and we accepted almost 3 month old Mark into care. He smelled awful and was in filthy clothing with a black piece of cloth with [...]

This afternoon a young German man who is volunteering in the area, came by with some toys. He said that a friend of his who teaches kindergarten in Germany, heard he was coming to Tanzania . She asked the children she teaches if they would like to give one of their toys to a [...]

Gifts Galore

This morning a wonderful group of people came to visit us from the International Tribunal. They brought us so many wonderful gifts for the babies; clothes, baby bouncer, formula, baby powder and oil, biscuits, porridge, instant cereal, diapers…THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.

They stayed to help feed the babies lunch as well. What a blessing [...]

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