Tupende Wazee (love our seniors)

This program has been amazing! The seniors who attend are needy and suffering. There are 2 meetings/week, and they never miss!
Many have severe mobility issues, but they make their way there twice a week.
Mapendo is in charge of the program. She was inspired by what she witnessed on her trip to Canada last year.
These seniors. love her, and she so clearly loves them also.
We rent a building near the church so that people outside the church would be free to come.
They are often fed, they have received warm blankets,  and even a gift of material for Christmas.
One lady told everyone "I am telling my whole family that this is what I will be buried in.....nothing else, only this material!
(You see what it means to them?)
The rented building also offers 5 small rooms for anyone needing shelter.
We are praying for these suffering women......

We have been having a conference leading up to Easter. We are really enjoying God's presence with us at our meetings!

This photo shows about 1/2 of the inside of Bethsaida Church....

There were 5 choirs, singing beautifully. The drums are amazing to me! It seems even the youngest can play.

This is the children's choir, I wish you could hear them!

our journey to church.....

this is the road leading to the church. When there has been heavy rain, we cannot drive here. We park down on the main road and walk in.







here is the view across from the church gate;

the entrance to the lovely church that God has blessed Bethsaida congregation with.

welcomed!

what a great blessing to be so warmly welcomed home by some of my precious Bethsaida Church Family!

and they came bearing gifts;

Yes! A chicken, and also a large bag of potatoes, and a box of bottled water! A very huge offering!

Tupendee Wazee (love our seniors)

Many of you have seen the singing, praying, and celebrating resulting from the gift of a quilt and material for a dress, for each of the seniors who attend the Tupendee Wazee group which was initiated by Mapendo and is supported by TBA.

Now I am hearing some of the stories. There were many many tears to see what to them, is a huge gift!

I found out that many of these seniors, who find mobility a real challenge, walk long distances to attend the meetings, and have never missed even one.

One lady, upon receipt of the dress material, told the whole group that this will be the dress she is buried in! She explained that she was going to spread the word to all her family members "You bury me in this dress, no other one, only this one!"

Thank you all for being a part of this wonderful story!

today......

still adjusting......

We spent 3 hours in the bank today. I was told it was a good thing there was air conditioning.
I didn't believe him........and then we went outside!      ☀️ 🔥 😎
Greetings from a VERY hot country!

Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of the day the genocide broke out. There were many gatherings where they read the names of those they have lost. They expressed that in losing children, they have also lost all those children would have done in their lives!

All traffic was halted for the day. It was a national day of deep mourning.