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Having completed our road warrior trek to Nyakaliro, we park the dusty Land Cruiser between the church building and the home of Elias and Leah. Jeremy, Nate, and Jordan have already spent a week camped out here, so the children immediately recognize old soccer buddies and crowd around the car with expectant faces. [...]

“Nyakaliro Nights” sounds like a good name for a song or movie, but Nyakaliro is actually the name of a fishing village about two hours from the Howell’s home in Sweya, Tanzania. A thriving church plant is flourishing in this remote community along the shores of Lake Victoria. One of the goals of [...]

Pic 1: No problem when you aren’t going anywhere…
Pic 2: Robbie is in his element…
Pic 3: On the move and proving that missionaries are multi-taskers…

As part of my “real work” in Mwanza, Rob asked me to teach at the Bible Institute for three days commencing immediately after we knocked off Kili, picked up the rest of the team in Nairobi, and made it back to Tanzania after a fairly grueling 10 or so hour drive across the Rift Valley [...]

When first approached by Rob Howell, a missionary in Tanzania, about the possibility of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, my gut response was an immediate, “Yes, I’ll do it,” without giving real thought to the consequences of such a decision.  In retrospect, I didn’t think he’d ask me to do something impossible, and I knew he had already [...]

This ain’t no cheap seat. I’m sure you’ve got a pretty decent view from the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. According to my iMac’s dictionary, Kilimanjaro is “an extinct volcano in northern Tanzania. It has twin peaks, the higher of which, Kibo [Uhuru?] (19,340 feet; 5,895 m), is the highest mountain in Africa.” Jon is standing [...]

After a month-long break to the concession stand, I’m actually trying to get settled back into the cheap seats.
Actually, the last month has been extraordinarily busy for us. We’ve been out of the bleachers and onto the athletic field, as it were. Jon has been getting ready for an extended mission trip, which includes teaching [...]