Shirati is a town of historical significance for the Mennonite Church in Tanzania. It is one of the oldest centers of missionary presence in Tanzania, with the arrival of Mennonites in the early 1930’s. Today it continues to be a thriving Mennonite community with the Shirati hospital and SHED (Shirati…
Mogabiri is home to the Mogabiri Farm Extension Centre, an organization run by the Anglican Church, devoted to improving the farming practices of local farmers and increasing their livelihoods through farming. Alain and Matt have been working here and we spent two nights at Mogabiri, staying in…
I hope the delay in posting has not been too long! We did not have internet on our trip through Nyarero, Mogabili, and Shirati. Goshen College also experienced some server problems on Sunday. However, now we are back online! Last week, after getting our car fully fixed in Musoma, we…
We arrived in Kemgesi late on Thursday night after our long safari through the rolling hills of surrounding villages. Kemgesi town is nestled on the slopes of a rocky hill in front of a treeless plain of green pasture. Our headlights didn’t allow us to gain a…
We left early Thursday morning for Kenyana, a very rural town about an hour west of Mugumu. We met Josh Miller and the pastor of the Mennonite Church in Kenyana along the roadside flagging us down. Otherwise, we may have passed right through Kenyana! Kenyana is a…
Emily Bowman and Laura Krabill are both living in Mugumu town, about an hour west of the Serengeti National Park. Mugumu is a town with connections to Goshen! Professor of nursing Jan Emswiler and her husband Kajungu lived in Mugumu before coming to Goshen. We met many…
Nata is a small town of several thousand people on the western edge of the Serengeti National Park. Erica Grasse, David Graber, and Jonathan Mast are living and volunteering in Nata and we visited them on Monday and Tuesday of this week. We arrived in time to share a lunch…
This past week marks our first service visit! Thursday and Friday we spent in Murangi, a town about 1 ½ hours south of Musoma directly on Lake Victoria. The town is a small village of several thousand residents nestled on a hill overlooking the water, with a…
On Sunday the students and our family attended the Nyabange Mennonite Church in Nyabange, a small village on the outskirts of Musoma where the Mennonite Theological College of East Africa (MTCEA) is located. We have also been offered a house by the college to stay in during…
During our visit to Grumeti we stayed at the Ikoma Cultural Center located between Mugumu and Nata. The cultural center is run by Agnes and her husband and provides an opportunity for visitors to experience some of the local culture surrounding the Serengeti, while at the same…
