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New Blog Address

Due to difficulties in Zambia with Blogspot, I have moved my mission blog to Wordpress at : https://polarpandasite.wordpress.com/ I apologize for the inconvenience.  Locals have told me that the Zambian government is messing with Blogspot blogs to monitor posts.

Saving Soles on the Beach

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It is Sunday in Dar es Salaam .  As part of the Seconded conference, we have praise and worship every morning from 8:45-9.  Our youth learned the Navigator's  Lynne with Kara and Ella. ABC Bible study  method and seemed very interested in learning it.  Feedback from the parents is that the students are loving the Bible study instruction and practice we are giving them.  We started with 8 students, but one of the students (12-year-old) preferred to work in the nursery.  Her home church is here to care for the children, and she wants to spend time with them. Our transportation. After finishing the teaching day early we had the opportunity to take a boat ride to the tropical island of Mbudya (Lat 6.66 o   South, Long 39.24 o    East).  It is a 2.3-mile boat ride in a motor-powered dhow with about 20 other people in what was today pretty rough seas.  We had sporadic rain, winds with gusts to 25 MPH, and 1-2 foot waves.  I think we had more bow spray than rain.  Mbudya