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Mbulu LettersThis letter was sent via email.... From: <mbuluparish@yahoo.com> Our dear friends at Prince of Glory Lutheran Church, Madison Heights. Greetings from your friends at the Mbulu Parish in the name of our risen Christ Jesus. We gratefully received your letters dated March 12, 14, April 10 and other several letters from the children of your church. We received these letters on April 30, 2001 when we had a meeting with the evangelists in our Parish. They were very happy to know what and how are you doing in Madison Heights. The letters from the Children of your church were translated into Kiswahili and distributed to the children of the same age and sex in our parish. They really enjoyed to know what their fellow children are doing and they appreciate the idea of being pen pals with the children in y our congregation. Unfortunately those who are in Primary Schools (age of ten, twelve may be up to fifteen) cannot write in English, but we will volunteer to translate each letter into English. The original will be sent with its translation below. Thanks to Linda S. Newton who has introduced this idea of fellowship. Who have the secondary school students who are interested in this idea of fellowship Probably they would like to become pen pals with students of their level. These students are able to express themselves in English. Therefore, their letters will be sent soon. Our dear friends, we sent you a letter in January this year. We are not quite sure whether you received or not yet. I would like to express myself that I am the said new pastor who by then was looking forward to his ordination. On February 18,2001 I was ordained to be a pastor, and we had a very nice ordination ceremony. Many guests came from different places within and outside our Diocese. Together with approximately two thousand people who came to witness that event, we had the Bishop from neighborly Diocese - Bishop Thomas Laizer from Diocese in Arusha Region. You are among those who were sent the letter of invitation unfortunately it was not easy for you to be with us in that occasion. Now I am working as a Parish Pastor together with Pastor Samwel Sulle in Mbulu Parish. Besides this, I have other duties such teaching Bible Knowledge and Divinity in two Secondary Schools within our Parish and also working with the Department of Christian Education, Sunday School and Youths in our Diocese. Pastor John H.Siefken said about the visitation by Diane Thompson in the fall. We are impressed to know that you are interested in knowing our ministry and works and you are praying for us. Thanks be to God. We will continue sharing different experiences with you so that we may learn and keep on praying for each other. We thank you for your financial support. In our letter of January we asked about the purpose of the money which we had received. Now we are free to use in building a kindergarten school. Peggy Vandenhemel explained how you did the fundraiser of US $ 750 and that of US $ 731 for our church. We thank Diane and Wes Thompsom for the program they had presented and for sharing with you one of our local food, chapati and chai. This implies you value our customs. We also thank Pastor Tim Larson and a Christian band called Opposable Thumbs for a wonderful concert which fundraised US $ 731 for Us. We need to consult the treasurer of our Diocese about this US $ 731 because is not yet deposited in the account of Mbulu Parish; may be it is still in their account of famine relief. Would you please tell us when did you sent this amount of money and did you mention the name of Mbulu Diocese or "Congregation"/"Parish". This will help us to know exactly and the Diocese can release this money if they deposited in their accounts by mistake. Recently we received US $ 655.36 from you for buying bicycles for our evangelists. We all owe a debt of gratitude to you for all these financial assistance. May God bless you. Thank you for sending us your e-mail address. We are grateful to send you ours; which is: mbuluparish@yahoo.com Welcome to use this e-mail address. We are preparing/collecting letters from our children, youths and choir groups. They will be sent and enclosed with some pictures very soon. Keep on praying for each other. Read Philemon 4,5 as our greetings from the Bible. We look forward to hearing from you. Yours in Christ Rev: Elifuraha S.T. Massawe |
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