Hello friends, I have spoken to many of you and have told you Wendy and I were going to Africa very soon.  It is with great disappointment that I share that our trip this spring has been canceled due to the turmoil over there. Wendy and I are planning to return to St Philip’s in late September or early October. Thank you for following our journey. Godspeed, Peter ..read more

My friend Zabloni was ordained as a priest in September. In honor of the occasion, my home church, St. James in North Providence, RI, gifted him a chalice. My fellow missionary Wendy and I gifted him a stole. It’s a long process opening gifts here in Tanzania! Zabloni and his wife Astina are very grateful for their gifts. Thank you! Godspeed, Peter ..read more

This man knows his wood, animals, and tools. We asked him how he learned the art, and he explained that his family has done this through four generations ..read more

Hello everyone! This is your website admin Holly. Pete sent this to me while he was still in Tanzania in May and I forgot to hit post! Thank you, and here goes… Wendy Broadbent from Utah and Agripa, the principal of St Philip’s, organized a 4-day conference for parents of children with disabilities to help their children get educated. Similar to the US, it is a law in Tanzania like i)n US that every child is to be educated. They have been working on this program for 8 or 9 years. They took videos of past graduates of St Philip’s, who have gone out into their parishes and working with the paren ..read more

November 2022 We had a large project this season to replace an old water irrigation system with a new tower and solar-powered water pump. The mountain range that surrounds the drip irrigation project is called San’ganga. Whenever we talk about the project, we just say San’ganga. Bringing the old water pump to the surface to replace it.The new pump with part of their nursery alongside.Solar panel support structure.Solar panel support structure as it is moved through the village of Mlanga.Preparing the holes to place the structure alongside the first structure.Getting cement ready to secure the ..read more

Here, you can see that Gracewell and I have made the form for the slab. We have also put in pieces of metal, and now Gracewell is welding them together to give the structure more strength.This is with all the metal connected together. This metal grid work is removed and about 1″ of cement is put in.The wire mess is buried into the cement, and more is added.The wire mesh is buried.Here, it is filled with cement. Now, we will smooth it out and let it set for a couple of days, putting water on it so that it drys evenly. Godspeed, Peter ..read more

Hello everyone, I hope everyone has had a wonderful summer. I want to inform you I will not be going to Tanzania this season. I will be having a hernia repaired, and will need the time to recover. I will returning to St Philip’s sometime in February or March of 2023. I’ll keep you informed once I have more details to share. Thank you all! Godspeed, Peter ..read more

This is how bananas grow.This is a way they fence in their property. Notice the piece of plastic that they tie the branches together.Almost like a poinsettia bush.This is how bananas grow.Breakfast of missionaries, with a fresh banana and milk we boiled the night before.One of many strange bugs.Sharing a ride gets even better with four people.This is an actually jeep inside the play area of the nursery school.Here is how this young lady gets her water to do her laundry. All that cement you see around her is an underground tank. You can see two gutters that are plumbed into the underground tank ..read more

One night, we had a lot of big winds, which felt good. But, it took down a dead tree alongside our workshops. There is a live electrical wire going to our shops. It never broke, so we never lost power. Thank the Lord, because the electric company takes its sweet time coming out.My two guys, Gracewell and Goodluck, along with a few others, cut up the tree and stacked the wood to be taken over to the kitchen to be used for kindling. Ok, we got rid of all the branches but how do we get this off the roof ..read more

Gracewell and Goodluck are changing wite and screening out on the front of the administration building.These are some of the windows before we replaced the screening and wire mesh.The other part of the administration building. You will need to zoom on some of these pictures to see why we are going to paint them.This is going to be a tough one to get done.The windows are completed. Now we will paint the sills.The back part of the library. We will replace the missing piece in the fall.Even with the piece missing it looks better than before.This is the south side of the Student Union. If you zoom ..read more