Tanzania Youth and Family Mission Trip Information Sessions – The Tanzania Tourists Never See
Almost 100 people from Incarnation have traveled to Tanzania to visit our Ministry Partners in Mkwawa Lutheran Church in Iringa, Tanzania. It’s a great opportunity to see the Tanzania that tourists never see. Come to learn about how you can be part of this exciting ministry opportunity that has been life changing for so many families and individuals at Incarnation. The trips are normally 16 days, including travel. Most of the time is spent with our partners in Iringa, however one can’t travel to Africa without going on safari. A three-day safari in Ruaha National Park, Tanzania’s largest national park is included in the price of this trip. Even if you don’t plan to travel, these information sessions provide insight into the daily lives of our brothers and sisters in Tanzania. Talk with people who have traveled to Tanzania and learn about how you might join the growing number of people who have joyfully worshiped the African way.

Information sessions will be held on:
Sunday, February 26 at 10:00 a.m. in Adult D
Sunday, May 6 at 11:00 a.m. in Bethany Lounge

To register for the trip, please sign up in the Incarnation Office by June 20, 2012. A $200 non-refundable deposit for each person traveling is required.

For more information about the trips, see the Quick Trip Facts sheet.

Tanzania Secondary Sponsors Needed
Imagine that you wanted to go to high school, but the tuition cost was the same as your parent’s yearly income. What would you do? This is the predicament that many of the high school students from Mkwawa Lutheran Church, our ministry partner in Tanzania, find themselves in. Although secondary school in Tanzania is roughly the equivalent of grades 8-12 in the United States, many students put off attending until they are eighteen to twenty years old because they don’t have the school fees.

For the past several years, people from Incarnation have been sponsoring secondary students in Tanzania. This past year, Incarnation sponsored sixty-one students. Each time we travel to Tanzania we meet with these students and bring letters home from them to their sponsors. We have heard many touching stories from kids whose lives were changed by the opportunity to attend secondary school.

Timothy Ndone, who just completed secondary school writes, “The aim of the letter is just to thank you for my school aid. In return I promise you that I will be working hard in my studies. My request to you is that you pray for my studies so I can reach my future goals. I would like to welcome you to visit us soon. Blessings, Timoth”