Meat Sauce on Top of French Toast

As you know, Americans love to venture out with food - for breakfast at the camp we had a meat sauce on top of French Toast.  It didn't look that great but actually wasn't that bad, but kind of unusual.  Day 2 of the conference was very good - networking, great teaching, workshops and a bonfire to end the day.  At the bonfire Stacey and I had a great time of connecting.  He met and talked about an hour and a half with a couple of South African worship leaders.  I connected with an Indian couple who pastor a Vineyard in Durban - found out they know some people in India that I also know.  There are several generations of Indians in South Africa.

 

We had a networking meeting with everyone who is pastoring a Vineyard in Tanzania or is working in partnership with a Vineyard.  We had a nice group, 4 churches were represented: Arusha, 2 in Dar Es Salaam, and Iringa, The other Vineyard is in Ukonga but the pastor of that church is not at the conference.  It was obvious that there is very little connection between any of these Vineyards -- so this conference is of highest value to get these Vineyard pastors connecting and working together.  Part of the problem of course is the difficulty of travel in Tanzania.  The roads are not good, it takes a long time to travel, and the communication systems are not always reliable.  They have planned another get together today which is wonderful.

 

Last night was Tanzania night.  Each pastor and each partnership leader was given time to share on where and what they are working towards in Tanzania.  I had the opportunity to share about Dothan Vineyard leading the USA Tanzania partnership and explained about the purpose of our trips and what we hope to accomplish.  I gave the story of Peter Msgiwa's saying, "What's not happening?" on our first trip -- it became a hit, especially when he got up to share the message (by the way, he did a great job).  I explained that is our motto for our partnership, to find out what's not happening and address it.

 

Stacey ventured out and played soccer yesterday afternoon - they lost and had to be 'skins' - Stacey was glad no one was there to see it. LOL!  He had a great time.  Today is day 3, looking for a ride into the little village near here just to have a look around, because all we have seen is the airport and conference center . . . . hope to post more tomorrow.