Dear Cherished Interested,

Could it be a Lutheran School? Yes..

Could it be a non-Lutheran Christian School? Yes..

Could it be a Public School? Why Not?..

Networking now taking place through you who read. You who read and Pray…

The oldest Lutheran Secondary School in Tanzania, built 1973, is still in operation. Many have closed as have many private Christian schools in the United States.

Makumira Secondary School is considering having a Sister School in the United States. Even considering having exchange students. This school starts with students about to enter the 7th grade and it is a boarding school. There is a fence and gate and security however it is in one of the safer places I have taken my wife.

Why?

Much of the food for the school is grown on site. Two tilapia(fish) ponds have been dug, one starts harvesting in January. Water is provided by both an onsite spring and a backup hydraulic ram pump from another spring. No reliance on electrical power for water. Soon the garden below the school will be drip irrigated in addition to being as close to organic as one can get where certifications, if available, are rare. Cows on site provide milk, fertilizer, and hopefully soon biogas for cooking without reliance on wood.

The Students maintain all of it while learning so much from that opportunity.

Just a short time here would change a young person’s outlook, permanently broadening the willing to dare a different not found at home.

So put on your thinking hats. Spread the word about a long standing Lutheran School South of the Equator in endemically impoverished Tanzania seeking to share what they do and how they do it. About a long standing school seeking to share and to learn.

You are right to ask..

No, caning, spanking and even hitting have been banned from this school for a long time and you can see it in the students as they look their teachers, the head master, visiting board members, pastors and even Hilda and I fearlessly in the eye with smiles and even laughter at how different we seem to be. They wave freely. The staff behaves the same. The board and the Headmaster have much to be commended for.

My hope would be an inner city school in the United States. The students in both places having an opportunity to learn about each other and how they survive and thrive in spite of difficulties would be beyond price.

Please Please Please.. Talk, ask, spread the word..

Give people our contact information:

vwilliamson@sprynet.com

We will gladly make introductions.

What to pray for:

More Rain -

Thanks for the rain we have gotten -

Our strength, our weakness, our vulnerability, and God giving all that is needed –

Whatever is on your heart for us –

Our Children and Grandchildren getting used to missing us –

Possibilities to present themselves –

Our language acquisition –

Thankfulness for you, each of you –

Thankfulness for each prayer –

Thank you, Thank You, Thank You.. Prayers, your prayer, makes all the difference..

Vern W

May Life be as Music to your Heart - May Music be as Heart to your Life 

- May Heart be as Life to your Music -