NEWS FROM TANZANIA
ARUSHA
We have five English speaking Brethren and so would like five English Bibles for them and if possible some for English speaking contacts on our missionary trips; we also need Bibles in French and Kiswahili. I was baptised in 1998 and was interviewed by Brother David Smith. I really like working for the CBM. travelling each year with visiting brethren to different areas and translating for them.
--Bro Thierry Kabangu,
KILOSA
I would like to draw your attention to my situation: I lost my sight in 1981 while I was employed by the ministry of Education, where I had worked since 1974. The cause of my blindness was chloroquine treatment when I suffered malaria. Subsequently, doctors felt that the treatment had destroyed my retinas, leaving a spot on both retinas. However, I was retrained and learned to read and write using Braille.
I retired in 1997, at that time I was very eager to learn the word of God, but knew of no-one who could assist me. I found, by God's grace, that the CBM already had a Christadelphian meeting at Kimamba, started by Bro. Samuel Malulu, who introduced me to the good news of the Truth; I was very impressed by this message and wanted to join the meeting.
In 2004 I met Bro Michael Owen, who told me about the work of helping the blind. Within a month, Bro Arthur and Sis Muriel East began to send me the forty lesson course, and the following year, 2005, I was baptised.
The following year, I preached the Truth to local people, and eight converts were baptised. Numbers of converts were increasing because I was preaching the Truth to them.
Since the death of Bro. Arthur East, and the floods which swept away my books, I have no books
printed in Braille for my blind students, nor for my sighted students, using the forty-lesson. Braille course. So I am writing to ask if you will be able to assist me to get Braille books, and others for the sighted students. I am married with children, and hope you may be able to visit me one day.
--Bro. Hosea Ndaki
Sis. Muriel East has arranged for you
to have a Braille copy of the 40-lesson course. You also have two Christadelphian Braille magazines regularly from Bro. Peter Bullivant. Bro. Peter does a wonderful work in producing these regularly --MH
MOROGORO
I and my family are O.K. Thank you very much for sending me as many booklets as you do. In our ecclesia there are five Brothers who can read English, but they haven't English Bibles, so could you please send them copies
--Bro. Joseph Kaliyaya
MUSOMA
The NEV Bibles are wonderfully designed in a manner that a reader can understand the meanings of the chapters. I showed them to our members and finally Sis Rebecca took one as she did not have any English Bible. The attached reading planner is so very helpful and I know all in Faith must appreciate and enjoy the Bible together.
--Sis. Monica
Sis Monica with the Mutunga family from Kenya
NYARUGUSU REFUGEE CAMP
There are two Ecclesias in this extensive Refugee Camp of about 20 baptised members in each. We received an urgent email that their food allocation (Maize flour 190g, Beans 60 g, Oil 20g, Salt 10g, Soya 20g for each person every 14 days) had to be reduced by half for some weeks owing to WFP/ UNHCR food shortage.(This is the typical allocation in most refugee camps). Technically it is not easy to help in these situations, but the hand of providence enabled CAT to take immediate action and make up the supplies for the Brethren and Sisters.
We send a considerable amount of literature to various Refugee camps , which seem ideal places to spread the good news of the Kingdom, as many of them have time to think about God in there difficult and often horrible circumstances.
Nyarugusu
Our two ecclesias at the refugee camp will start a project soon. We have noted that most of our helpful
Publications are written in English. And those Breth- ren who do not know English do not always develop, or have a deep understanding of the Truth, as they are unable to expand their knowledge in the word of
God though they have been baptised long time ago, so we are going to run a learn English course to help them benefit more from the Truths literature.
Help brethren here to become a community of believers based on firm understanding of the Truth through reading our publications .
My heart revives to have the NEV Bible as it makes for a deeper significance to be discovered that makes the reading and the understanding of the Truth very exciting and enables students to find out the basic message and the power of God's love and the true happiness revealed in it so that we may no longer be like children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine devised by the trickery, craftiness and deceitful scheming of men.
--Bro Isidore Wibeleca
