11. Churches uniting

On Sunday 21 October, we showed the gift that St Stephen's Church and St Leodegar's Church sent to the church in Ibumu, as a reminder that we are standing with them and praying for them.

James showing the poster, a photograph of the joint congregations of the two churches, sending greetings and blessing to Ibumu Church.
"Salamu na baraka kutoka..." means "Greetings and blessings from..."

We sent this photograph, together with a letter from James, on behalf of our two churches, to Tanzania with Andy and Angela Sharpe. They, and a team from Emmanuel International in Iringa (Andre and Alex VanWoerden and their daughters and Jesca Mgimba) went to visit Ibumu church on Sunday 11 November 2018. They presented the poster/photograph to the church on our behalf.

Andy created a lovely frame for the photograph. Thank you so much!

The church was very grateful for the gift, and especially the reminder that we are thinking of the congregation in Ibumu and praying for them regularly. They have been very generous, sending many gifts to us and to the team...

A chicken... for breakfast soup...

They sent us greetings right back to us...