What a fun month! We are blessed to be hosting Olivia Barnes for the next month.  She was a great help during the Children’s Seminar that Anna and I helped put together.  Kisongo church of Christ hosted a six day Children’s Seminar (VBS) with the theme “We believe in God because of…”.  During the week I (Bekah), Anna and Olivia Barnes covered bees (nuki- ‘new-key’), birds (ndege- “n-day-gay), the earth (dunia- “due-nE-a”), the sea (bahari- “bu-har-E”), spiders (buibui- “buoy-buoy”), eyes (macho), ears (masikio- “ma-seek-E-O”), tung (ulimi- “oo-lee-me”), and hands (mikono- “me-kO-no”).  There was a craft and activity almost every night and the kids seemed to learn many things and have a great time doing it.  We had so much help from the ladies of the congregation and we could not have done it without them!  We started the week with around 100 children in attendance and ended with close to 200!  It was a tiring but great week.  Micah even lead a song in Swahili before the week was over!

Phillip has been working with the farm at ACSOP most days this month.  Ishmael, the farm secretary whom Phillip is training, and Phillip have been ironing out the wrinkles in the budgeting sheets and getting the first monthly report ready.  In the evenings three days a week he has been doing the Bible study with our friend and day guard, Peter.  They are still working their way through Ephesians.  Phillip is also in the process of developing a lesson planning sheet that can be used to help guide teachers of teen classes here and hopefully anywhere.  There are many things to consider to get this layout basic enough to be useful anywhere, but also structured enough of be of help to the teachers.  Prayers for him and those helping him as they work to make this a useful and duplicatable plan.

Micah has asked if he can write about his and Nathans experiences here.  So this paragraph is from Micah:

HI.  My first friend here is named Elisha.  Mom does a Bible study with his mom on Wednesdays.  We live very close to each other.  It only takes a few minutes to walk to his house.  Peter, our day guard, also lives close to our house.  Ayibo and Samweli are our night guards.  I like to play soccer with them.  We have a shed/shop at our house and we get to use half of it as our fort.  I love the food here.  The Tanzanian food is really good.  I turned seven in September and we had fish for lunch and then we went to Cultural Heritage Museum.  I got a book about African birds for my birthday.  We got to take Miss Olivia (Barnes) and her dad to the Snake Park and I took pictures for everyone to see.  Mom is putting those below this.  Thank you for reading my part.

 

 

ASCOP is hosting Tanzanian Leadership Conference this weekend.  Prayers for all of those traveling and for all of the instructors/learners are appreciated.  We also appreciate all prayers on our behalf as we are working here.  We pray that what we are doing is helpful to the people here and will help them grow closer to God.

Thank you all for your prayers and support.

In Him,
Phillip, Bekah Micah and Nathan Duncan
Support can be sent two different ways:

Through Paypal at: pbduncan20@gmail.com

Or:

Bear Valley Bible Institute of Denver
2707 S. Lamar Street
Denver, Colorado 80227 (Memo line: “Duncan TZ mission”)