Tanzania Spring Break 任务 Trip
这个春假, seven students and four adults (including two EC staff) travelled to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania for their Touch the World 任务 trip.
为什么坦桑尼亚?
技术 teacher 蒂姆Steen and his family lived in Dar from 2013 – 2015, teaching at an international Christian school called Haven of Peace Academy. Tim and his grade 10 daughter Emily were on the trip and happy to introduce other EC students to “their” beautiful but broken country.
我们做了什么
The team created a Vacation Bible School for students in grades 2 – 4 at a small local Christian school called “Divine Christian Academy.” These 70 kids had the week off of regular school, but came to school anyway for the program! 度过了充满乐趣的四天, 电子商务学生教歌曲, 工艺品, games and 英语-language worksheets to the children. 其中三天, the Divine students came to the Haven of Peace campus and enjoyed their playground and computer lab. One day, EC visited Divine and worked with the kids in their usual classrooms.
It was an enlightening adventure for EC students. They witnessed how other students study, learned about the Tanzanian education system, spent time with children from another 文化, and learned about Dar es Salaam: it’s people, 经济, 文化, 宗教, 运输, 行业, 旅游, 和更多的.
Here are some other highlights from our trip:
我们的团队:Emily Steen, 蒂姆Steen, 艾米Shepley, 内特Wehrle, 伊莎贝尔Lasor, 杰克李, Shepley的伊莱娜, 马可·德拉克鲁兹, 也许她Pazmino, 迦勒巴斯克斯, 萨姆巴斯克斯
- We arrived safe and sound in Dar es Salaam at 3:30 am Saturday morning. After waiting for our ride to our home for the week, we boarded a bus and witnessed the sun rising over the city.
我们徒步游览了这个城市, 乘公共汽车, 乘汽车, and by bajaji (small taxis built on motocycles with open doors). Everywhere we went, we seemed to find an adventure. - In our first days in Dar we saw a number of temples and learned about the diverse religious beliefs on the East African coast. These experiences solidified our purpose, and reminded us of the importance of sharing the life-changing gospel of Christ.
- 我们遇到了一些当地的传教士, 包括杰克逊·斯瓦洛, a seminary student at Reach Tanzania, another organization working on the ground in Dar to train pastors in the area. We were blessed to stay at a Reach Tanzania house with Alyssa Dunker, who took great care of us while away from our families.
- 我们美丽的坦桑尼亚家
- 我们吃了印度菜, traditional Tanzanian food (look up Pilau and Ugali), lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, and celebrated on the last night with a delicious pork & chicken barbecue cooked by local missionaries.
- We visited the TingaTinga Cooperative, a school which teaches a traditional Tanzanian painting style we all fell in love with.
- We explored the Slipway Shopping Center, a beautiful spot on the Indian Ocean which is a great place to find souvenirs. Local residents set up their goods in small stalls, full of homemade treasures! We ate ice cream, a true treat after a long hot day in the city!
- We enjoyed church service at God’s Tribe where we sang in both 英语 and 斯瓦希里语, 听了一场布道. We visited with local Tanzanians as well as missionaries from all over the world. 每天晚上, we would host different people for dinner which allowed us to ask questions about Tanzanian 文化. We prayed together, and some evenings, we sang and worshipped around our living space. There were some very powerful moments when we witnessed the Holy Spirit move in our group in ways many of us had never experienced before.
- 学生 planned and executed a Vacation Bible School for the Divine Academy, and we had the thrill of watching their personalities shine. Each student played a unique roll, some exercising quiet leadership, 其他人从不厌倦玩, some finding their authoritative side, and others discovering their voice for the first time.
- We made fun 工艺品 and the kids loved playing with cotton balls, googly eyes, glue, and crayons.
这支球队度过了一段幸福的时光. We felt God move in our group and with the missionaries and kids we served. We were amazed at how God provided exactly what we needed when we needed it throughout the entire week, and how we got to experience being God’s hands and feet as we served. It was a wonderful, heart-filling trip!
(杰克逊、耶和华和琼)
