Gayle Stroschein

Why hello there! This is Katie writing to you about today's adventures.  We started our day off by packing up and saying goodbye to everyone at Tudor Village. It's amazing how much baggage we had! After a group picture and sadly not ever seeing Mt Kilimanjaro, we were off to Moshi to tie up some … Read more

Today we woke up all bright and shiny to compensate for the clouds that seem to be forever present in front of mt. Kilimanjaro. One of these days we will see it! Then we packed our bags that could fit about 2 small children in each and headed to St. Joseph hospital. There we toured … Read more

Well after an eventful yesterday the rest of team decided they couldn't face today so they overslept.  I was preparing for the day and finally I went and knocked on the teams door and they were still asleep and there was a lot of OMG's going on in the room.  I told them we were … Read more

Greetings to all! I think my fellow travelers would agree that today was about perseverance and faith. I want to let people know ahead that some of this content can be a little tough to read due to being emotional. We started our morning off a little earlier due to the fact that we had … Read more

Jambo(hello)! One of the few Kiswahili words i can remember 😉  We started today like everyday… with breakfast. Today we had fruit cocktail.  Right away after breakfast we gathered paint and painting supplies to paint trim in the Happy House.  Opening a can of paint was quite a surprise for us! Thankfully we soon got … Read more

Today we had a mission, how are we going to put on a whole service for the orphanage children. We started to form our plan over breakfast this morning. We were able to figure out the line up; opening prayer read by Katie, then translated in Swahili by Julius for the children, we would perform … Read more

Bwana Asefiwe (Praise The Lord)!  What an awesome day we have had. We got up and the team had breakfast and then we were busy preparing for the carnival for all the kids at the children's home in Light in Africa.  Julius and Freeman helped with with it.  Katie set up a station in which … Read more

Well the Hope Ministries team in Tanzania is ready and anxious to go to the airport to pick up the 2nd team that will arrive via KLM this evening.  We will then take a 45 minute drive to Tudor Village, which is near Moshi and we will be doing work there for a week.   … Read more

I am excited to report that I have heard from Diane and the first team has arrived home safely.  The first picture is the team the day they were leaving to go on safari with the two Tanzanian drivers.  The second picture is  of the first team the day that they were departing.  It is a … Read more

Well I have just returned home from taking the NWC team to the airport.  It was hard to say good-bye to them and we had many tears.  I have been so blessed by all of these special people on this team.  They came with a heart to serve and that they did.   Yesterday as … Read more