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    THE LION S

    See the Lion of the tribe of Judah . . . has triumphed

    BOB

    D WN B IRD

    Elizabeth

    Rache l Joshua

    January

    995

    ZAIRE

    TRIP

    IN

    AFRI

    GoodByes,'whyare theyalwaysso difficult? Beforewe can sayhel

    to our new country of Tanzania, Boband Rachel journeyed once more to

    ouroldcountryand friend,Zaire. Bob went to closeout our workand say

    our

    formal Good

    Byes'andRachel accompanied him,spendingmostofhe

    time at Toddle Inn working with orphans. But she, too, said her Good

    Byes.

    Closing meant dosing our house and personal effects and it also

    meant closing out work and work-related effects.

    All

    personal Items we

    could dispose of as we wished, by sale or by bringing things back to the

    States. Bob brought back irreplaceable family photos, a collection o

    books,some

    videos

    and some precious Christmas ornaments.

    Everything

    else was sold. Work FundsPersonal use are any items purchased with

    Work Funds for specificuse bythe missionary. ThisIncludes furniture and

    appliances. Because these things were purchased with Work Funds, we

    had to receive permission from the Mission and Churchcommunity as to

    how we could dispose of them. Wewere given permission to sell them al

    and use the funds for setting up inTanzania. In Service Related, we had

    two items - a freezer and a threewheeler both of which we received

    specifically for Dawn'sSupport Service. We receivedpermission to sellthe

    three-wheeler and our freezer was transferred to the ladywho is now

    handlingthe support work. Bobfelt that, through allthe work of sorting

    and selling, he had from everyone the greatest amount of cooperation

    possible. This made hiswork pleasant and easy.

    Closing was saying Good Bye to many people - people who are

    considered friendsand family. Bob met withACM s

    Legal

    Representative

    Mundyo Mwenywiusiba, explaining to him how we came to our decision

    to change

    mission

    fieldsfromZaireto Tanzania. Hewas veryunderstand

    ing, saying that he did not feel that theywere losing us since we would

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    Miles and miles of little white tents comprise the refugee camps.

    THE FUTURE OF Z IRE

    Probably from past letters that Bob haswritten to you you have a

    pretty

    gloomy view of Zaire Weil he

    tosaythathe

    does

    nothave anything newtotellyou tobrighten upthehorizon Afterthefloodof refugees from R

    had

    stopped

    the

    military

    moved

    all

    of the people outof Bukavu proper

    They

    moved themout along the road

    lead out of town, and set uptheircamps

    wherever

    theycould find room Onthe roadto town

    from

    the airport

    areat leastfourrefugee camps Atthistime the majority of thesepeople arethe

    Hutus These

    are

    from

    the tri

    started killing the Tutsis lostthewar,and then became refugees inturn. There are a halfa

    million people

    thru

    an already extremely poor country.

    The future looks grim The camps are becoming moreand

    more

    unstable

    and turning towardgang rule The

    are talking aboutgoing back to

    Rwanda

    and

    taking

    back what

    is

    theirs The aide

    people

    are finding it

    harder

    to

    and their jobs are becoming more dangerous.

    Sowhat does the future look

    like? This

    iswhat Bobsees. Ifthe camps keep getting worse, then the aide

    will not be able to workand they will pull out. Ifthey go, the refugeesin the campswill come out looking fo

    wherethereis

    definitely

    notenoughtogoaround.

    Bob

    heardthefeelings oftheZairians that theyaresuffering th

    the samethingsas the refugees but the foodand medicines go

    only

    to the

    camps

    There will be no

    welcome

    refugees in

    Zaire

    outside

    ofthe camps the Hutus trytogo back into

    Rwanda

    to takeback whatthey

    believe

    is

    Zairewill become a war zone. Rwandahas not stabilizedenough for the refugees to return, besides,they are too

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    to go

    back

    becausethey

    believe

    that the

    Tutsis will

    be

    waiting

    to wipethemout.

    They

    are

    probably right.

    The

    futureofZaire mustbe a future

    based

    on

    your prayers,

    starting

    nowl

    ACM

    needsyour

    continued

    su

    maybe

    nowmorethan

    ever,

    to

    hold

    upand protectour

    missionaries

    there; to

    hold

    upand protectthe

    Churches

    a

    face this growing threat;

    to

    hold

    upand

    protect

    the

    ACM

    Office

    Staff

    as

    they

    tryto

    communicate with

    and

    supp

    support our families through this verydifficult time.

    T NZ N I

    UPD TE

    Wehave been officially accepted byTeam

    Expansion

    to jointheir three families for the Makua Project. W

    also signed

    the

    Seconding Agreement

    between

    ACM

    and

    Team. You

    know.

    It

    seems like all

    ofour

    missionary

    has had a in it. PBT/ACM and now

    ACM/Team.

    Dawn and Ihavefilled out psychological examson

    ourselv

    each other and havemetwith theTeam Counselors. Wehavehad the opportunityto meet withallour teammate

    and havegone through an exercise together with the counselors for us to start learning about who each one o

    We are very encouraged and very excited about going to Tanzania with these three families.

    Please

    be

    praying

    aboutthe

    following details.

    Weare

    leaving

    for

    Tanzania

    onthe 7thof

    February.

    We

    will

    be

    Air France, through Europe, to Dares Salaam (thisisthe prominentcoastalcity ofTanzaniaand means Portof P

    Wewill spend several weeks there doing some languagework, getting our residence visas, and looking intow

    wouldtake to acquirelegalstatus forACM. Sometime inMarch, wewill bemoving to the largevillage ofMasasi,

    issouthofDaresSalaam, almostto the borderofMozambique

    look

    onyourglobe).We

    will

    be staying ina guest

    of sorts until wecan find and fix a houseto rent. Wewill be

    working

    toward the planting of the churchamong

    of

    people called

    the

    Makua. These

    people are

    said

    to be5

    million

    strongand are

    less

    than5

    Christian. The m

    of the tribe is in Mozambique, but 300,000 make their home in Tanzania at this time.

    Rightnow Ineed to introduce to you, by name, our

    Team Family. Theyare Roger and Trina Leib and baby

    Jadeth; Jeff and Lois

    Whytsell;

    and Todd and Tami

    Carter and baby Savannah. Steve Skaggs isthe Makua

    Team Coordinator and he and his wife, Vonnie,

    with

    their 3 children, Graham. Sigrid,and lain, will be on the

    fieldfor the firstyear. Pleaseprayfor these familiesfrom

    now on as you would pray for us.

    Our furlough is almost over. All that s left is last

    minute buyingand packing. Well,not quite allthat s left.

    Wealsohave yet another round of Good Byes to people

    that we are going to miss dearly,

    including

    our Rachel

    who

    will

    stayhere inLincoln,

    Illinois

    forcollege. Included

    in packing isdeciding what stays here stored and what

    goes packed into specific sized 70 lb. luggage, or

    packaged up and sent to the shippers who

    will

    be

    sending a container later on. Itmeans trying to stretch

    our salaryaround closing out and getting ahead for the

    start-up in Tanzania. While we are doing this with 12

    years of experience, the families we introduced you to,

    the Carters, the Leibsand the Whytsells,are doing itfor

    the very first time.

    We have always appreciated your participation in

    the ministryofACM and our lifeand ministrywith them.

    We ask you now to add our Team

    Family

    to your prayers

    and the Makua people to whom we

    will

    be ministering.

    Please

    continue

    on

    with

    us until the

    finish

    O o>

    O ^ ^

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    THE

    LION S

    See the Lion of the tribe of Judah . . . has triumphed

    O DAWN BAIRD

    Elizabeth Rachel Joshua

    IN

    AFR

    V

    April 1995

    FIRST TIME LAYOVER IN PARIS

    Finally We departed Chicago on March 7th, at 4 p.m. on AirFranc

    Thistrip to Africaincluded 30 pieces of luggage besides our sixallowed fo

    carry on. Bob'ssister,

    Nellie

    Parker, dropped us off

    at

    O'Hare early and A

    France quicklymarked and checked everything through. Edand Brend

    Buellof ACM

    were

    there to wish us bon voyage.

    We

    arrived in Paris about 6

    a.m.

    on

    the 8th scheduled

    for

    an

    18-hou

    layover. After a nap at a hotel near the airport, we rode the METRO int

    Paris. We came out of the subway at the

    L Arc

    de Triumph and walke

    down the Champs Elysee. Fromthere we could see the Eiffel Tower and

    crossing the Seine River, we wandered through neighborhoods untilw

    found it. Jammed against the windowof the crowded elevatorwe climbe

    to the very

    top

    of the Tower and looked out over allof Paris. Fromour view

    Bobwas able to chart our way back to the Arc.

    On the

    return

    toourstar t

    ing point

    we

    had just enough

    time to

    find a s idewalk cafe,

    have a cup of capucinno and

    share a french

    dessert

    to

    Dawn's delight. Joshua al

    most

    disowned

    us

    when

    we

    pulled out our camera and

    took what was obviously a

    very 'touristy picture. We

    arrived

    back

    at

    our hotel

    in

    time to packup, catch the bus

    for the airport and say

    good

    bye to Paris. We had enjoyed

    it immensely.

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    ARRIVING

    IN

    TANZANIA

    After a longfurlough, we were alllooking forward to

    getting back to Africa. Dares Salaam welcomed us in

    grand style. It was so hot we started dripping before we

    even

    got

    off of

    the

    concourse. Our immediate plan

    was

    to claimour 30 pieces of luggage and get it outside and

    into the vehicle waiting to take us to the guesthouse.

    Every last piece of baggage was there waiting for us as

    was our rideto town. Wewere expecting to be picked up

    by the Southern Baptist Mission in Dar I ll use this

    shortened form of Dar esSalaam for the rest of the letter).

    While Bobpiledthe bags inone spot, Joshua stood guard

    over itand Dawnwentout into the airport to findour ride.

    This accomplished, Bob

    go t

    the attention of one of the

    ladies that

    worked

    in Customs,

    introduced

    us as mission

    aries, and

    showed

    her

    the

    itemized listfor our luggage.

    She escorted Bob to the

    head

    of

    the

    Immigration Office.

    On the way she told him to

    get

    ready to give this man a

    gift

    and

    Bob knew from our experiences inZairewhat to

    do. He asked her what kind of gift she meant, and the

    lady becamevery vague and dropped the subject. After

    welcoming Bobto a seat, the officialbegan going through

    our list. All the time Bobwas in the office there was a

    man in the corner completely changing his clothes.) As

    the officialtickedoff each itemwe would have to payduty

    on Bob related to him

    that we

    had

    heard

    missionaries

    were allowed to bring personal belongings infor the first

    sixmonths duty-free. Hemumbled around for about ten

    minutes and then let us go without paying a dime. God

    had taken our biggest concern and smoothed it out

    perfectly At this point, our driver strongly suggested we

    ge t

    all of our things outside as soon as possible and out

    of eyesight so that no one would change their mind. It

    took three

    loads

    toget our

    mily and

    ll of

    our

    ijag

    to the guesthouse.

    We

    had h ea rd n ew s

    before

    we left

    t State

    there was a problem with the electricity in Dar d

    daylighthours and that indeed proved true. Nig

    electricity wouldn t do us much good since Jo

    schooling ison video through the Abeka system.

    guesthouses run byspecific missions naturally give

    ity to their own missionaries and the Southern B

    needed the rooms we were occupying bythe end o

    week. Thiswas exactly how long we had before J

    had to resume his classes in order to stay on sch

    Other guesthouses available to uswere far removed

    town

    which presented a problem

    because there

    wo

    be taxis available to

    take

    us to downtown offic

    things like our resident permits. Neither did they

    daytime electricity.

    What

    else can a missionary d

    time likethis but pray We expected an

    answer an

    gave us one. Our team families in Morogoro pro

    tha t answer

    Todigress, let us bring you up-to-date with the

    three familiesthat we willbe sen/ing with here inT

    nia. The Carters, Leibs, and Whytsells had arri

    Tanzania in February, obtained their resident permi

    started inthe language school inMorogoro, which

    hours

    west

    of Dar-es-Salaam. Their Swahili lan

    study willlast until the middle of June. The day

    we

    a

    in Dar they

    go t

    a ride into town just to welcome

    Tanzania

    What

    a wonderful surprise

    that was

    f

    Theywent back the same night and when they lef

    knew of our problem.

    As we traveled around Dar doing our gover

    work, we were constantly looking and asking

    ab

    place to stay. Our originalplanwas to stay sixwe

    Dar, getting our permits, and doing some lan

    studies. During the week we had at the Baptist

    house

    we could

    no

    anything

    that

    wou

    the

    bill,mostly

    due

    problem with elec

    We

    prayed wat

    and

    waited right

    the

    day before

    we

    h

    move and

    at las

    answer came Our

    lies in Morogoro

    to say

    that

    they had

    tricity all the time

    that they had foun

    house in which

    to

    We already had o

    perwork in

    the

    imm

    tion office and

    theromleft: TcxJd and TamiCarter, Dawn and Joshua, Roger and Trina Lieb,and

    Lois

    and JeffWhytsell.

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    tist

    Mission

    agreed to keep track of itfor us, so we took

    God's answer and moved to Morogoro. n order to get

    there, we had to rent a 21-passengerbus fromAviswhich

    we filledup with luggage. We arrived safe and sound on

    a shockingly good road. Parts of it even had yellowand

    white

    lines.

    Through this we learned a lesson. We were sec

    onded to Team Expansion mostly because of our experi

    ence. We

    were

    joined to this

    team,

    these families, to help

    them, as new missionaries, with that experience. During

    that firstweek Ifelt likeI had no experience at all. Itwas

    the new missionaries who found us the place to live.

    Experience. Just bybeing here a month ahead of us, they

    had the experience

    that

    counts. That's the Church. We

    are all put in it for a purpose, each with his or her

    own

    treasures to share. Noone has too much experience not

    to receive a blessing from what others have.

    JOSHUA

    IS

    HOME

    Coming back to Africa,for Joshua, was coming back

    home Still hewas a littleapprehensive. Hewas worried

    that he might have lost a lot of his Swahili. While yet in

    the States would start conversations in

    Swahili

    wit h u s

    so he could practice which made us practice, too. During

    our

    week

    in Dar-es-Salaam he talked to everyone - the

    worker at the guesthouse, the men that worked across

    the street from where we were staying, and every cab

    driver

    that

    we met. Sometimes, inthe course of the day's

    work. Dawn and Joshua would go one way, and Bob

    would go another. Naturally,

    we

    would all

    meet

    and talk

    with different cab drivers. One day, when Bob was out

    alone, heflagged down a taxiand headed offwitha driver

    he had never met before. (Remember, that this is a city

    of

    millions

    of people and many, manytaxis.) After a short

    conversation

    with

    this taxi driver, he

    looked at

    Bob

    and

    said.

    Vou ar e

    Joshua s

    father * Given

    th e t ime, Joshua

    would have met everyone in Dar-es-Salaam

    Now that we are inMorogoro, God iscontinuing to

    bless Joshua's homecoming. We are living on the Angli

    can

    church

    compound

    literallysurrounded bymany of the

    Christian workers for that church. Joshua

    met

    a boy right

    next

    door named

    Harry,

    who

    isalso fifteen years old. We

    have been here for onlya week and they are inseparable.

    Joshua knows more about Morogoro

    than

    we do, be

    cause he and Harry wander all over

    town

    together. A

    couple of days ago

    we

    all went to a restaurant with local

    food that Harryknew about and the four of us ate until

    we were quite fullforonly$5.62. Harryisshowing Joshua

    the ropes

    and

    helping him with his Swahili.

    and

    Joshua is

    Joshua and Harryin our living room InMorogoro

    teaching HarryaboutTransformers and StarWars.

    reallyfeels responsible for Joshua as they wander a

    thru town. Hewas absolutely furious the day a thie

    Joshua s hat. He tried to

    catch him as

    did severa

    bystanders. We were really glad they didn't as vi

    justice is swift

    and

    cruel

    here.

    Joshua isdoing well in his studies and isext

    happyto behome in fricaand to haveHarryas hisf

    DO WE

    TAKE

    BATHS I

    THE WASHING

    MACHIN

    Inspite of the fact that we did not come toTa

    preciselyto do housework, probably a third of our

    taken up with food shopping, food preparation,

    cleaning and laundry. We do not want to take th

    nor the trouble now to hire

    and

    train houseworker

    did hire one outside worker to maintain the yard a

    serve as a day guard. Our Swahili tutor, Immanue

    comes three afternoons a week, and the other two

    Dawn works on her correspondence course from L

    ChristianCollege. Ina few short months our Swah

    be Tanzanian instead of

    Zairean

    and

    we

    will be

    mi

    ing to the Makua people in Maasai. A housework

    be washing floors and scrubbing clothes and so

    vegetables in disinfectant. Will we missdoing laun

    the

    bathtub? We don t think so

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    WEDDING

    PLANS

    Incase you hadn t heard our most excitingnews

    Rachel isgoing to be married to Mark Shew of Lincoln

    Illinois on July29th. Mark isa deacon inthe Jefferson

    Street Christian Church and works with the Junior High

    in their youth program. Mark is24 yearsoldand has a

    degree in furniture-making. He is a foreman at Myers

    Industrieswhere they make displaycases for stores like

    J.C.Penney.

    He also has a shop of his own where he

    makes furniture to his customers specifications.

    Rachel and Mark met in a class they we re both

    taking at Lincoln Christian

    College.

    Thelastdelayinour

    return to the fieldprovidedus the delightfulopportunity

    to get to know both Mark and his parents Allen and

    Melody Shew. Dawn also was able to be with

    Rachel

    when she chose her wedding dress and helped pick

    material fo r bridesmaids outfits Rachel has chosen

    Elizabeth to be her maid of honor; Joshua will be one of

    Mark s groomsmen and Bob

    will

    be officiating.

    HappinessI

    Excitement Anticipation We will be

    returningto the States the 15th of July for the wedding

    and return to Tanzania on the

    th

    of August.

    PRAYER AND PRAISES

    1. Praise the Lord f or working out all the details for

    arriving and locating in Tanzania.

    2. Praise the

    Lord

    for Joshua fitting right back into

    Africa and for his friend Harry.

    3. Pray

    that

    we will be able to get our residence

    permits quickly.

    4. Prayfor Rachel and Mark their wedding plans and

    their future

    together

    5. Prayfor our plansfor returning forthe wedding and

    our finances

    6.

    Pray

    for our Teamas we workout the purchasing

    of vehicles f or our

    work here

    7. Pray for the

    Liebs Whytsells

    and Carters as they

    have been suffering under repeated bouts with

    malaria including the two babies Jadeth and Sa

    vannah

    Mark and Rachel our last evening together with

    Mark s parents home.

    fN OJ

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    THE LION'S

    See the Lion of the tribe of Judah

    ..

    . has triumphed

    O

    DAWN BAIRD

    Elizabeth Rachel

    Joshua

    December 1995

    AFRI

    EATING

    OUT MASASI STYLE

    Since we are

    living

    in the Sayari Hotel, we eat at their restauran

    occasionally. We have set up housekeeping In our hotel rooms and ar

    prepared to fix some meals there. One of the convenienceswe do have

    a very small freezerthat affordsuscoldwater and

    ice.

    Whenwe go to th

    restaurantwe

    usually

    take along a

    supply

    of icecubes because you nev

    can tell how cold or warm your drinks

    will

    be.

    MostSunday afternoonswe head to the restaurantwithoursupply o

    ice. We pass through the restaurant earlyto order our food so we

    will

    no

    havetowaita longtimetoeat. Therestauranthasfivetables. Until recentl

    the kitchen workwas all done overcharcoal. Whenyoulookthrough th

    opening to the

    kitchen you see the blackened walls of many years o

    cooking. Thewaitress isreallya pleasant ladywho seems likeshe isalmos

    awake when you talk to her. We give her our drink order and turn on th

    ceilingfan over our table to

    defeat

    some of the heat. This is an adventur

    initselfin that the fans inthe restaurant have longsincelosttheirability t

    spinina

    circle.

    Forthe restof the mealwe havethiswobblingfan rightove

    our heads.

    The drinks are on their way from the bar, while the waitress i

    deliveringour meals of chicken, goat, rice, beans, and tomato salad. Ou

    pop arrives,

    two

    Pepsi's and

    one

    soda water. The standard method o

    opening pop here isto remove the cap swiftlyand with a loud sound. Tw

    Pepsi's

    willingly

    giveupthe appropriate sound, but not the soda water. No

    the slightestbitoffizzinthat one. Soourfriendly, butsleepy,waitress goe

    off to get another. The second arrivesand givesthe same result, no

    fizz

    Ohwell. Dawn saysthat isfine,

    she ll

    drink itas itis. Sowe passout the ice

    we each get two. except for Dawn, who has four for her flat soda water

    We have prayed and are starting our meal when the waitress come

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    backwith a glassin her hand and asks Dawn for some ice

    for herdrink.Wedon t havea clean spoon to usesoDawn

    picksout two icecubes with her fingers and drops them

    inher glass. She beams usa bigsmilewith her thank you

    and off she goes to have a cold drink.

    E X P E C T A T I O N S V E R S U S

    G O D S VIS ION

    It was August, the Baird/Shew wedding was over

    and we were returning to MasasI, Tanzania. We were

    excited about moving into a rental property promised to

    usby itslandlord, fixingit upand getting on to

    th e

    ministry

    th t w

    felt

    w e d

    b e e n called to .

    T h o s e

    w e r e o u r

    expectations When we came back to Masasi we found

    that

    the owner of the house had not reallyconveyedto us

    what he was looking for. Between his desires and ours

    was no viable middle ground, so we were without a

    h o m e .

    W h e n

    w e f i rs t a r ri v ed in Masasi w e

    lived

    in o th e r

    Team members homes, bu t this wa s onlytemporary. The

    only

    other

    place available to live was the Sayari Hotel,

    which is a truck stop full of heat, dust, and noise and

    unavoidably iswherewe are now

    living

    Thenext housing

    offer t ha t c am e

    to us

    w a s from a local businessman w h o

    wanted to builda rental home to our specifications. We

    hopefully looked into this but, as it turned out, the price

    Mark and Rachelcutting their wedding cake

    heaskedandwhatwe couldaffordwere notcomp

    So we started looking for whatever other rental p

    ties

    were available. W e used all

    the resources

    of

    Team members, and anyone else

    that

    knew of an

    and the result was, no house. Notwanting to put m

    into housing

    that

    would not be a part of a perm

    mission property, we decided t ha t t he houses av

    would have required more time

    an d

    money

    tha

    acceptable.

    Expectationsare sometimes generated bypas

    rience. In ou r case, because of our experiences in

    we expected both rental housing available and

    building project would take at least two years to

    plete. We have been surprised to find that ju

    opposite is true on both counts. We have a

    explained about rental properties in Masasi and no

    are pleased to say that the outlook on buildingisa br

    picture.

    Although we saw that the building projects f

    Liebsand Whytsells

    were

    moving forward

    at

    an

    as

    ing rate, because of the availability of transport

    buildingsupplies, and well-motivatedwork crews, w

    di d n o t

    se e

    t h a t

    th e Lord w a n te d us

    to

    build

    since

    w

    not raised funds before coming to Tanzania.

    Fin

    desperation - and we did feel desperate - we call

    Team families together for a-t ime of prayer and f

    and came to the decision to build. Untilthis pointw

    allowed our vision to be guided by our limited ex

    tions. N ow Go d s

    vision

    would

    b e co m e o u r

    vision a

    visionsare not based on whether or not we have m

    After deciding that buildingwas what God w

    us

    to

    do

    we

    sent

    faxes to

    s om e a nd

    letters to

    oth

    our supporting churches asking for th e necessary

    And we started building our house.

    m

    Foundation is dug and masons prepare to lay the sto

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    At this time we receiveda message from our doctor

    saying that there was something suspicious in a

    mammogram that Dawn had had done while we were

    home for the wedding. Since the

    availability

    of good

    medicalequipment or doctors isalmost

    nil

    here inTanza

    nia, we made a quick decision for Dawn to go home to

    have this taken care of properly. Becauseof the situation

    of

    living

    inthe

    Sayari

    Hotelwe decided to have

    Elizabeth

    go with her. We were

    really

    perplexed about this

    happening. Why,when we had just started to build did

    this have to happen with Dawn?

    InlateOctober Dawnhad a benign cystremoved. All

    of the expenses for flights to and from Tanzania were

    taken care of by you, our supporters. While Dawn was

    home sh e was able

    to

    talk face to face with both

    individuals and mission committeeswho

    were

    interested

    In our building In

    Masasi.

    When Dawn returned to

    Tanzaniawe had already received a giftof one halfof the

    estimated $25,000 cost of building, and a promise of a

    loan

    for the

    rest

    We look back over these past few months with

    gratefulwonder.

    Truly

    our expectationswere verysmall

    %

    Joshua

    stands

    in hi s f u tu r e bed room

    compared to

    God s

    great provisions.

    Maybe

    we

    learned a lesson from this. Maybe from now on w

    lean more on God's vision then on our own expect

    for our plans.

    OVERWHELME

    Iwent to the States

    not

    knowing what wo

    happening to me,where the moneywould comefr

    traveling and medical expenses, let alone not kn

    that Godwouldbe usingmeto raisethe $25,000 to

    our house. Iwas overwhelmed by those circums

    and just absolutely awed by the generosity of

    peoplewhen theysawwhat our needswere. Hecar

    Elizabeth and methrough phonecallsfrom family fr

    and supporters, and through cards that came in th

    with kind thoughts, prayers, and money.

    Specifically there was the small group at Jef

    Street Christian Church that gave me many wo

    encouragement. Besides that, were the stude

    Lincoln Christian

    College

    who not onlygave us$1,0

    to use on the medical expenses, but several times

    Elizabeth and I

    w t

    into

    restaurants

    and

    busine

    Lincoln a student would say to me, Youmust be

    Shew's mom. Ihave

    been

    praying for you

    at

    whic

    Iwould startcrying. God used allof you to bring Eli

    and me through this experience praising Him; Iw

    thank you for taking such good care of us.

    - awn

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    situation

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    This isn't exactly what you would call an ordinary

    Christmas newsletter because of allthe other things that

    aregoing

    on

    andthe

    timing involved. Butwe willuse this

    as a time whenwe can say that we do wish you alla very

    blessed Christmas.

    PRAYER

    NEEDS

    1. Prayfor the whole team as we are making contacts

    in Masasi and forming relationships.

    2. Continue to pray for our on-going need for good

    health and the acquisition of Tanzanian Swahili.

    3. Praythat we would be able to be into our home by

    the beginning of February.

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