Peace and Blessings in the Midst of Chaos!

From Global Lutheran Outreach missionaries Dixon and Christy Gbeanquoi (Serving in Tanzania):

Some Progress on our Finances
We are so grateful to many of you who have helped us raise $3,300 of the $6,500 we need. We know how hard-hit everyone is due to COVID-19, but thank you and you and you for all your support.

We still have a balance of $3,200 to take us to the end of this year. Please visit: wwww.globallutheranoutreach.com/blog/gbeanquoi to make your contribution to our ministry or you can see instructions at the bottom of this page.

In the Midst of our Challenges We still have Something to Celebrate
We took time to Celebrate Milcah’s 5th Birthday on June 29th. It was a very wonderful day to see how fast and tall our beautiful daughter is growing. We did the cutting of the cake on Sunday afternoon with few families and friends.

Youth End of Year Celebration in our Diocese and Congregation
One of the activities the youth had planned was to educate some youths on self-sustenance, since many youths who either finished High School and are waiting admission into colleges and universities are ideal and have no personal source of income. They decided to learn how to make liquid soap that is use for deep cleaning, especially now that we are plague with COVID-19. It was also a wonderful day to see the youths conducting worship service and having the opportunity to listen to the youth as they preach.

Progress on Replacing our Plastic Chairs to Benches
We are thankful that members in our congregation can raise money locally to replace the plastics chairs to wooden benches. Looking at the benches in the church, you can see that we have come a long way and indeed our congregation is growing very fast and there are possibilities that we might be looking to expanding the building to accommodate more people, or we might result to having two(2) services on a given day to accommodate everyone.

Our Son’s Baptism and the Bishop’s Visit to our Congregation
Our son Uri was born in February and when we got to the month of March, everywhere was in chaos due to the Corona virus and Tanzania. We decided to wait until there was a bit of calm before we can begin the process of Holy Baptism for Uri. We also requested the assistance of the bishop to do the baptism we scheduled 9th of August. We had Three(3) children and Two(2) adults baptized that day. The bishop used the occasion to also officially opened the Children’s Sunday School building that is about 85% completed and we are making gradual progress on completing the building fully.

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