On July 13, 2004, the next day, we visited two schools, Mkuyuni Primary School and Nyakurunduma Primary School.  Because of the problem of controlling students, from this date on we had a smaller number of students in a class room with the same VBS program, unless the school proposed the outside meeting.  In the afternoon, we went out for door-to-door evangelism near Hebron Church.  Bishop Kuguru is the senior pastor in this church.  We were served drinks by hebron church after the door-to-door evangelism was finished.  At night, a movie about the life of Jesus Christ was shown to people around Hebron Church.  Several people who watched the movie came out to confess their belief in Jesus Christ, and one came out to dedicate his life to Jesus Christ, and I had an honor of praying for the man.   On July 14, 2004, we met with Bishop Robert Nzwalla.  He is the overall coordinator for World Mission Frontier in Mwanza, but was away from Mwanza for ministiral reasons, and now came back.  We again visited two schools, Yamsungi Primary School and Isenga C. Primary School.  All our members went for door-to-door evangelism near Tabernacle Gospel Church in the afternoon.  Bishop Lwakisumbwa is the senior pastor of this church.  I taught 2 hour seminar on how to do door-to-door evangelism effectively to the church leaders at Hosanna Church.  Bishop Nzwalla is the senior pastor at Hosanna Church.   I was motivated to do this so that I can relieve the burden off my team members, and to let the Tanzanians take more active participation in evangelization of their own community.   This seminar used the four spiritual laws as the basis, supplemented by Matthew 10.  I also discussed the different target groups of our evangelization, our attitude when we approach the people, the need to know the spiritual conditions of our target people as soon as possible.  At the end, we also had a short practice session.   After the seminar, Bishop Nzwalla collected money from the attendees, and I thought they were having some kind of fund raising for the church.  Bishop Nzwalla offered me the money collected for the seminar I just gave!  I told him that I was doing all the things I did on my own expenses and had no intention of receiving money for my seminar.   I told the bishop that he could use the money for some useful purposes in his church.  As a result of my delivering this seminar, I justified having my team members take rest during the afternoons of Thursday and Friday.

We visited Mwanza Baptist (secondary) School on July 15, 2004, and Kitangiri Secondary School on July 16, 2004.  In both schools we showed them a movie on the life of Jesus Christ.  Peter and the team witnessed to the students, sharing their personal experiences such as how they have become a Christian, how they sanctify their every day living, etc.   All the students and teachers were enthusiastic to meet us and talk to us.  I again taught 2 hour seminar on how to do door-to-door evangelism effectively to the church leaders at Philadelphia Gospel Assembly in the afternoon on Thursday.    Pastor Isaiah Zenobius is the senior pastor of this church.
 
Our team was invited for dinner to the house of Dr. Joyce on Thursday, and to the house of Bishop Nzwalla on Friday.  On both nights, we had a great fellowship with our Tanzanian brothers and sisters.

Throughout our stay in Mwanza, I told our Tanzanian brothers and sisters that we came to see them only because we love them, traveling 2 days by air plane and one day by bus and boat, on our own expenses.  I also told them that they are not alone in this world and we are their brothers and sisters through Jesus Christ.  I also told them I expect that some of them may come to Europe, Asia, and America to deliver the Gospel, as we were doing in Mwanza because South Korea 40 years ago
many people have their own Bibles.  Even pastors appeared to be very week in theology and the proper interpretations of the Bible.  They need a lot of materials for Christian education that can be used for the group study in churches for lay people as well as theological education for the pastors.  On July 12, 2004, Monday, we visited Nyamonoro Primary School.   Bishops Lwakisumbwa and Kuguru, and Mr. Hamisi accompanied us to the school.  Bishops Lwakisumbwa introduced us to the school.  We spoke in English and Mr. Hamisi interpreted English into Kswahilli.  These three people always accompanied us whenever we visited schools in Mwanza.  Nyamonoro Primary School has about 5000 students, and had about 1200 students collected for us outside on the play ground.  We shared about one hour worth of VBS program with them.  Teachers had a lot of difficulty controlling students.  Peter Hahn led the beginning singing, and InYoung Yang led them for worship and songs.  We had a skit called Sin Chair, which tells that our sins can not be forgiven by our own strength, money, beauty, witchcraft or anything else, but can be forgiven only when we turn to the Lord.  Many of us participated in this skit.  Lastly Peter Hahn told the story of the Lost Sheep with them, and shared his faith by witnessing before them.  We also collected the names of people who would like to receive a copy of the Bible, because one of the missionary organizations in Colorado promised us that they would send a copy of the Bible to whoever wants a copy of the Bible in Africa, as a part of the support for Celebrate Africa 2004.  All the children and teachers were enthusiastic about the VBS program.  This took all the time in the morning.  In the afternoon, we went for door-to-door evangelism near Hosanna Church.
On July 13, 2004, the next day, we visited two schools, Mkuyuni Primary School and Nyakurunduma Primary School.  Because of the problem of controlling students, from this date on we had a smaller number of students in a class room with the same VBS program, unless the school proposed the outside meeting.  In the afternoon, we went out for door-to-door evangelism near Hebron Church.  Bishop Kuguru is the senior pastor in this church.  We were served drinks by hebron church after the door-to-door evangelism was finished.  At night, a movie about the life of Jesus Christ was shown to people around Hebron Church.  Several people who watched the movie came out to confess their belief in Jesus Christ, and one came out to dedicate his life for Jesus Christ, and I had an honor of praying for the man.   On July 14, 2004, we met with Bishop Robert Nzwalla.  He is the overall coordinator for World Mission Frontier in Mwanza,
but was away from Mwanza for ministiral reasons, and now came back.  We again visited two schools, Yamsungi Primary School and Isenga C. Primary School.  All our members went for door-to-door evangelism near Tabernacle Gospel Church in the afternoon.  Bishop Lwakisumbwa is the senior pastor of this church.  I taught 2 hour seminar on how to do door-to-door evangelism effectively to the church leaders at Hosanna Church.  Bishop Nzwalla is the senior pastor at Hosanna Church.   I was motivated to do this so that I can relieve the burden off my team members, and to let the Tanzanians take more active participation in evangelization of their own community.   This seminar used the four spiritual laws as the basis, supplemented by Matthew 10.  I also discussed the different target groups of our evangelization, our attitude when we approach the people, the need to know the spiritual conditions of our target people as soon as possible.  At the end, we also had a short practice session.   After the seminar, Bishop Nzwalla collected money from the attendees, and I thought they were having some kind of fund raising for the church.  Bishop Nzwalla offered me the money collected for the seminar I just gave!  I told him that I was doing all the things I did on my own expenses and had no intention of receiving money for my seminar.   I told the bishop that he could use the money for some useful purposes in his church.  As a result of my delivering this seminar, I justified having my team members take rest during the afternoons of Thursday and Friday.

We visited Mwanza Baptist (secondary) School on July 15, 2004, and Kitangiri Secondary School on July 16, 2004.  In both schools we showed them a movie on the life of Jesus Christ.  Peter and the team witnessed to the students, sharing their personal experiences such as how they have become a Christian, how they sanctify their every day living, etc.   All the students and teachers were enthusiastic to meet us and talk to us.  I again taught 2 hour seminar on how to do door-to-door evangelism effectively to the church leaders at Philadelphia Gospel Assembly in the afternoon on Thursday.    Pastor Isaiah Zenobius is the senior pastor of this church.
 
Our team was invited for dinner to the house of Dr. Joyce on Thursday, and to the house of Bishop Nzwalla on Friday.  On both nights, we had a great fellowship with our Tanzanian brothers and sisters.

Throughout our stay in Mwanza, I told our Tanzanian brothers and sisters that we came to see them only because we love them, traveling 2 days by air plane and one day by bus and boat, on our own expenses.  I also told them that they are not alone in this world and we are their brothers and sisters through Jesus Christ.  I also told them I expect that some of them may come to Europe, Asia, and America to deliver the Gospel, as we were doing in Mwanza because South Korea 40 years ago was not much different from Tanzania today.  Most of the Christians in Mwanza were eager to worship the Lord by singing and dancing,  much better than in America or Korea, but they appeared to be weak in regular Bible study because not many people have their own Bibles.  Even pastors appeared to be very week in theology and the proper interpretations of the Bible.  They need a lot of materials for Christian education that can be used for the group study in churches for lay people as well as theological education for the pastors.  Pentecostal churches and Anglican churches are the dominant denominations.We left Mwanza at about 10 AM for Kome Island on July 17, Saturday. 

Kome Island, Tanzania  VBS Ministry
Rev. James Magembe of Kome Island came to Mwanza to accompany us to the island along with Elisha.  Dr. and Mrs. Park YoungBum, a medical doctor and his wife, joined our team and the total number of the team was 12.  Kome Island is located at the  South West corner of Victoria Lake.  Victoria Lake has more than 300 islands, and Kome Island is the second largest island.    I was told that the population of the island is about 150,000.  A large part of the population is fishermen and they are often from other parts of Tanzania, and they move in and out of the islands as needed.  The size of the island is not very big, perhaps 20 to 30 miles long in East West direction and about 10 miles wide in  North South direction.   We were told that there are only three things to do on the island: fishing, drinking, and women.  Even an African business woman we met on the boat warned us that some part of the island is not morally upright.  Our boat was not big, two stories with capacity of about 150 to 200 people.  There was a great deal of cargo.  We finally arrived at the island at about 3 PM.  The dock on the island was built by collection of several large rocks and sand.  If I were passing by casually I would not know it is a dock.  It is a simple extension of the land.  A large number of small fishing boats were docked simply along the beach. 

When we arrived at the island, we were greeted by mostly women and several men.  We had a large number of luggage with some weighing as much as 80 pounds, including a generator for the movie projector.  I was expecting many men would come out to carry our luggage, but I was assured that I did not have to worry about it.  The women put our luggage on their heads and carried our luggage.  I was behind a slim young woman who was carrying a large bag on her head.  She was walking faster on sandy road than I was.  I was totally amazed.  All these women were also singing for us.  We were all gathered in the Anglican church where Rev. Magembe is the senior pastor.  We had nearly an hour long worship service welcoming us, singing hymns and dancing.  I told them that I felt as if I were in Heaven.  Then we were directed to the place we would sleep.  It was the best building on the Island.  It is a single story, concrete building with many rooms.  The front part of the building is used as the headquarter for World Mission Frontier on the island.  Each room is a simple concrete cubical with about 8 ft by 8 ft size.  Two of us are assigned to one room with a mattress and a sheet for each.  There were two outhouses which were supposed to be flushed by pouring water by a bucket of water.   Right next to the outhouse, there a roofed concrete room that can be used for taking shower using a bucket of water.  Not bad compared to the outhouses I saw in China, which can not be flushed, and no shower is allowed unless we go to a special place where a shower facility
Is installed.