On March 20, 2009 our team hosted an authentic African dinner fund raiser for friends and family. We cooked for sixty people, and sixty people ate! Our guests were served a Tanzanian coconut bean soup and chapati as their first course. The main course was a delicious South African nut and raisin meatloaf accompanied with an East African squash-yam mixture and cabbage-pineapple salad. For desert the guests were served sweet coconut bread from Liberia which they enjoyed with spiced chai (tea) from East Africa. At each table there was plenty of fresh red papaya, mango, pineapple, passion fruit and sweet mini-banana's to complete the African dinning experience! Is your mouth watering?
Our program consisted of Kenyan vocalists almost refusing to leave the stage; they had so much fun singing in their native language. Trinity's mission intern, Sarah Switzer, spoke about our involvement in Tanzania last year. I (Daniel) picked up where she left off and introduced our vision and mission for this year. You can read about it in the first blog entry on this site!
We were so encouraged by our guests support! Derryl Friesen, the national coordinator for Wycliffe NextGen Mobilization, got up on the mic and poured out his heart in support for emerging young leaders and missionaries. Our team was blessed by his empowering encouragement. Following a profound and deeply relevant prayer over our team from an elder and best friend, Don Arnot, we could be nothing but extremely encouraged and blessed to have such friends and supporters!
We have reason to celebrate further, together our dear friends generously gave $3,000 towards the work which God has prepared for our team in Tanzania.
This fund raiser went exceedingly better than I had planned, which I believe is often the case when God has a hand in things. Thanks again and blessings to all those who were involved!
We came together and tasted delicious, exotic food - but our team left that evening tasting something different - God's goodness: Psalm 34: 8 "Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him."
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