Vision Trip 2012

Making Preparations! 

 

Members of the leadership team are getting ready to travel to Tanzania in November.   Those going include:  Kerrie Holschbach (Founder), Jon and Sharon Myllenbeck (Financial team), and Kim Groszhans (Prayer team).  The trip dates are set for
November 8th- 20^th. 

 

Although communication between the US and Tanzania is on-going through email and skype calls, there is no replacement for a personal visit.  These yearly trips allow Food For His Children’s American leadership to see the program in action and to meet the people being served.  These trips also strengthen relationships that have been formed with the Tanzanian volunteer leadership, village elders, and recipient families.  Travelling to spend time with the people of Tanzania is one way that Food for His Children shows its love. 

 

 

 

This year’s trip has many activities planned. 

As with past trips, this year's team will spend time visiting the families in their homes.  The team will be able to see the goat sheds the families have recently constructed and ask for feedback on how the program is impacting them.  There will also be time for community meetings where the villagers show the team skills they are good at.  During last year’s trip the team was shown how they make pottery, and braid rope, among others.  This was a highlight of the trip for many of the families and for the team.

    

At community meetings questions effecting the larger community will be asked.  Planning will continue for the Development  Center and Goat Farm.  During these meetings Sharon, a nurse by vocation, will also spend time doing health assessments for the children.  Goat pass-on ceremonies will also take place in the villages.  This is where families who have recieved a goat in the past and successfully raised it to produce its first off-spring are able to pass-on the gift they have been given by giving their first born baby goat to another family in need.  This is a time of celebration for the families and the program! 

 

Please be in prayer for the team as they make preparations including obtaining visas and updating immunizations.   In this area malaria, and typhoid fever are risks. 

 

Each member of the team is required to raise their own financial support to cover trip expenses.  The cost of the trip is around $3,000.  This covers airfare, food, lodging and transportation for the duration of the trip, as well as funding for trip activities such as the meal during the pass-on ceremony.

If you would like to support one of the team members travelling to Tanzania by making a financial contribution you can donate on-line by visiting www.FoodForHisChildren.org/give and specifying “vision trip 2012” in the comment section.  Or send a check made out to Food For His Children to PO Box 2261 Burnsville, MN 55337 and write “vision trip 2012” in the  memo line.  

 

(Photography provided compliments of Asante Photojournalism and Daniel S. Nersesian Photography)