Luggage comfortably packed in the back? Seat belts on? Everyone have plenty of elbow room? Hope you enjoyed that moment, because in TZ there are no such "road trips". Starting with only 8, we stopped at an Evangelists' school and added several more. Randy Stubbs showed many skills that we folks from First did not know he had, including securing luggage for cross-country trips which are literally "across country" !
Once arrived at Ketumbeine, Pastor Lukoja (sp?) used maps to orient us to our travels to and around his parish, which now has 21 congregations. To give you a bit of an idea where we are/were: Mt. Meru/Mwangaza are just to the right of his knuckle, with Arusha under it. The heavy black line is the border with Kenya, and Mt. Kilimanjaro is the arrowhead sitting in the upper middle of the white area still in TZ. Pastor is pointing at Longido, where we left the highway heading southwest (left) to Ketumbeine. If you are wondering why we didn't just drive northwest from Arusha to Ketumbeine, please look closely for the road -- as there is none. As is was, most of the "main" road from Longido looks like the section below.
On our way up Ketumbeine Mountain to visit our first congregation outside the actual village of Ketumbeine (remember the road picture from the "transition" email?), we passed this water project, with water piped from a spring to a central location at this elevation. Once nearing the first church, we had this view of the office-to-be, the church roof beyond, and the valley we had just left beyond that. Quite the contrast when looking past the church in the other direction, to the top of the mountain still covered by mist.
Part 2 to follow soon.
Mike
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