Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Another Day

Hey everyone, things are good here, school hasn't really started yet, there is about 3 more weeks till the college campus is open to students. Outside of that we have been able to go in to the down town markets. There is not a lot to do till school starts but, there are and have been chances to share the Gospel and at the most our story. Oh and a lot of prayer walking. Its cool, the reason school hasnt reall started is because it was pushed back a few weeks, things don't all ways go accourding to plan here. Its cool though. Right now at the campus there are a lot of American students. Who would have known, but it is what it is. However when school startes there will be thousands and thousands of students. Isaac is a church leader / recent graduate and he will be helping us around campus, but it's more like we are on our own, which is cool but sometimes it can be intimitating. They play a lot of football, well, we call it soccor and ultimate frizbee is huge here too. Anyways we are have a really hard time getting the pictures up so bare with us and well try to figure it out or something. To kind of let you all have a mental image of Tanzania I'll try and discribe it. If you talk to sheets of paper and on one wright modern culture and the on the other wright 3rd word and you take those two pieces of paper and crinckle them together you'll get Tanziania. Its crazy, the have a lot of modern things that even some Tanizanians can afford, but then agian they have a lot of what we would consider poverty locations. Yet the live life to the fullest. Its pretty cool the, The Tanzanian flag is Blue, Green, Yellow, and Black. The black strip is for the color of the people. The blue is for the oceans, green for tropical enviroment, and yellow is for the wealth of the country. They make the statement that there is no RED on the flag, even though Red is an African color, because Tanzania is a Pieceful country, and red stands for violence. I would have to say that Tanzania is a non-violent country VERY PIECEFUL. Anyways I'll try to get pictures upload this week, no promises and I'll give you a heads up of how the ministry his going.

2 comments:

JP said...

Awesome man, I love reading about what is going on. We went to our first element church service. it rocked. can't wait to here how things go wants the students get to campus. Keep up the good work, tell matt i said hi. miss you guys :)

Unknown said...

Chip/Matt-
Great hearing what's going on. We finished our lessons on spiritual disciplines today. You guys have come up in our discussion in past weeks and we've been praying for you guys at Sunday School. You're in our daily prayers in the Demarest household...praying for good health, and to remin in the safest place in the world...in God's will!