“Now we’re really on a bush safari!”  Lydia Chew’s excited comment came the day after her and her son Wai-Tim’s arrival to Tanzania while we wound through the mountainous and forested country south of Babati on a well graded but dirt road.  I grinned and told her I had a feeling our trip that day…

Proverbs 30: 2-4 seems written as a rebuke to those who would think themselves too wise, it says “Surely I am more stupid than any man, and I do not have the understanding of a man. Neither have I learned wisdom, nor do I have the knowledge of the Holy One. Who has ascended into…

Recently in the last few weeks there have been a few things that have made me stop and think a bit about life and death. One morning during devotions here at the clinic my Tanzanian friends told me they just received news of a pastor friend of theirs who died in a car accident near…

Thank you so much for praying for the eye surgery clinic we hosted this past week! Everything went smoothly, and many people were helped and heard about the Lord. Dr. Kirumbi and two of his nurses, Gilbert and Mama Mtweve, assisted him in screening about 60 patients, and operating on 21 of them. 17 surgeries…

She came in to my office rather quickly, and abruptly stated her problem. I was taken aback a bit, having gotten used to the slow stroll and lengthy monologues from the typical Tanzania patient here. She was sixteen years old, and needed a urine pregnancy test. Her manner was bold, almost brazen, but there was…