Exciting plans are unfolding! God is good!

              There are many people following this blog for the first time so I will give a quick summary of Trinity’s work in Tanzania before going on to explain our future plans. Last summer Trinity sent a team of 8 students to the coastal town of Tanga in Tanzania, Africa. Our mission was to firmly establish and strengthen a partnership with a  local Christian church, and together do a community “needs-based” assessment of Tanga. The assessment revealed that the main issues were in the health related sector. The area lacks medical infrastructure, human resources, equipment, and education. 
                Our partner church is highly motivated and has already demonstrated impressive initiative. They have a health center in Tanga and some dispensaries in the rural area. They have also begun the process of building a nursing training school; classes are set to begin in September, 2010. One of their greatest needs however, is lack of medical supplies and equipment. As a result, their health center often has to refer suffering patients to crowded government hospitals for proper treatment. Furthermore, the new nursing school currently has very limited supplies to get up and running. The National Health Insurance Fund payment is not regular which makes it impossible for the health center to invest in new equipment and keep shelves stocked. They have asked for our help! 
                Trinity is seeking to partner with Food for the Hungry Canada’s IMED program (International Medical Equipment Distribution) to ship a container of appropriate, requested medical supplies and equipment to resource the clinic and nursing school. Trinity medical students will plan to help load the equipment in Canada, and help unload and set up the equipment in Tanzania. We would also like to assist the nursing training school’s students launch a basic health care and education mobile clinic to the rural areas surrounding Tanga. Our dates in Tanzania are approx. from mid-June to mid-August. We are so grateful for what God is putting together for this missions trip.
 
To learn more about Food for the Hungry Canada's IMED program check out their website HERE

We would appreciate prayer during this next process of fundraising and getting organized. 
 
Ephesians 3: 20-21
“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.”