Tanzania - Teaching hard core servants is incredible

The team is back together after being separate for almost a week. We piled in the back of a very small truck with all of the shopping for the bible college and our gear and were off. It was really fun to be driving through Tanzania with the wind in my hair!
We reached International Evangelism Outreach - a bible college that takes in 80-100 students free of charge, trains them up for 6 months and then EVERY STUDENT starts a church or ministry. These guys are HARD CORE. They get up at 3 am to pray for 3 hours then breakfast, classes all morning ... afternoon classes ... then work duties ... then night classes and sleep at 10pm. Everyone lives in dorms so married couples have to sleep separately for the 6 months. They put me to shame ... but boy do they love God.
This college is funded completely by support from the states. They have a huge truck that drills water wells ... and people constantly come to help out doing specialised things. We have already met a Internet genius from Seattle (hence the wireless) and a great family from the Seattle region who take incredible pics (you will see some soon - as he took pictures for my prayer cards). Just being on these grounds shows me that NOTHING is out of God's reach and we should ALWAYS PRAY BIG!!
Teaching has been hard, there have been many lessons learnt through great and hard times. Our schedule changes daily. We had 2 weeks teaching but the students have to harvest in the midst of this time so our teaching time gets cut and they are tired but so passionate. It is sad to know that this is my 2nd last week in Tanzania but I really love these people and their language. I will try to keep learning Swahili when I leave and would love to bring another team of teachers back here one day soon!
You learn quickly in Africa that you do not need much to give much and feel blessed. I feel like I have learnt more from the people than they have from me. Beautiful!

Tanzania - Life in the Village

Oh the village ... what a start. I got my first "welcome to Africa" stomach bug. This is where you look for every toilet possible and your stomach tries to kill you from the inside. Fun for everyone. Even funner when you have a squatty to work with and a less that accurate ability to control everything. The picture shows the "Choo" (toilet in Swahili) that I sat on ... yes I covered the whole thing with TP and sat because I was so concerned about making a mess on our first day in the village in the Churches one toilet. You know me ... I sat there pooping and laughing so hard I cried. Such a funny and humiliating experience ... had to share it with the whole world!
The time in the village was great. Our team split as half needed to go to Nairobi to go to the Dr so Paul and I went to the village. This was my "practice leading" gig so it was an interesting time. We slept in tents and were feed like kings (as everywhere in Tanzania) to the point that we were going to explode and they gave us another helping!
Teaching here was crazy. The schedule changed regularly and this pic of the two lights is actually me teaching 80 people (50 kids 30 adults). It was a real time of growth as personal space was a myth. A group of kids would stand outside my tent for at least 1/2 hour discussing loudly who would go into the Mesungu's (white person - we hear that one alot) tent. It is funny but sometimes you just want space. hehehhehe. It was a great week of growing in God, as a teacher and just letting go of comfort zones. But I can definitely say I am becoming a teacher and really starting to like this stuff.