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Merry Christmas! Happy New Year to you and all your loved ones! Last year we missed being with our family. We were blessed to receive photos by email, such as the one at left of our granddaughters enjoying Christmas together. This year, we have arranged vacation time for a personal trip home to spend Christmas with family, including two new granddaughters we haven’t met yet!
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We are very grateful for the time we’ve had so far in Tanzania—just a year and a half, but we feel we have been able to accomplish some things and make a good start on our first term. Thank you for sending us!
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These pictures are from the recent graduation at Assemblies of God Bible College in Dodoma, where Bob and Jackie are teaching and Bob is Academic Dean.
We both want to improve in speaking and understanding Swahili. Please pray for our Tanzanian students in the upcoming school year.
Thirty students graduated with Diplomas in Pastoral Ministry and thirteen with B.A.’s in Bible and Theology.
Please pray for physical healing for our friend Antoni and his son, Jeremiah.
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Some of the signs and advertisements here are in English—sort of. We smile when we see them. A hardware store here in Dodoma is named “Mushy Hardware.” There is a local taxi with a sign in the back window: “Don’t spy my life.” The prize goes to a restaurant in Mwanza with a sign painted on it’s outside wall: “Our food is hand-sucking good.”
¬®K¯;°{±4²³v´K ¬¶µ·]¸º¹4· The Kiswahili for “we wish you a merry Christmas” is Tunakutakia Krismasi njema. “Happy New Year” would be Mwaka mpya wa furaha, but this is seldom heard. The common New Year’s greeting is Umevuka salama? which means, “Have you crossed over safely?” Some people give a thank offering each January because the Lord has allowed them to cross over safely into the new year.