More Datoga Members Put Their Faith in Christ By Bryce Whiting, Africa/Europe area directorTANZANIA – Pastors Amos Komanya and Elisha Dotto spent two weeks with the unreached Datoga tribe. An earlier missionary trip saw the miraculous conversion of four witchdoctors, but this trip proved to be even more profitable as the former witchdoctors accompanied our […]
Tanzanian Pastors Share Gospel with Datoga Tribe Pastor Amos teaches the Datoga By Bryce Whiting, Africa/Europe area director TANZANIA – In May, our friends Johnson Odoyo and Amos Komanya made another journey to an unreached people group, choosing this time to bring the gospel to the Datoga. This agro-pastoral tribe is known by different names: […]
Faith vs. Sorcery: A Battle of Beliefs in the Tanzanian Bush Johnson Odoyo shakes hands with his translator By Bryce Whiting, Africa/Europe area director TANZANIA – Last November, Pastors Johnson Odoyo and Amos Komanya of Tanzania journeyed to visit our new friends, the Hadzabe bush people. This trip issued many challenges, including a power-encounter with witchdoctors […]
Hadzabe: God’s Power Prevails By Bryce Whiting, Africa/Europe Area Director It all began with, “Praise the Lord brother Bryce! Thanks for your prayers! May you be informed that we arrived safely. We thank God for everything he has done for us in our lives.” Our Pastors Johnson Odoyo and Amos Komanya have reached new settlements of the […]
Water in Lukobe By Bryce Whiting, Africa/Europe Area Director In 2015, I made my first trip to Tanzania. As with all of our families in Africa, I had a wonderful time sharing in the lives of our leaders, bringing some teaching and learning of some of the struggles they were going through. Pastor Amos Komanya […]
A Story Unfolding from Tanzania TANZANIA – Ten years ago, the village of Kigoma breathed a sigh of relief when a young girl named Nurat moved away. Nurat’s presence had always made the social scene uncomfortable, for her behavior was bizarre and uncontrollable. Stories were told of her, and derogatory names were given to her. […]
“And then there was a mess to clean up…” TANZANIA – Pastors Johnson Odoyo and Amos Komanya embarked in April on another trip to visit our friends in the Great Rift Valley of Tanzania, the Hadzabe. Great success came from different settlements of this nomadic tribe of hunters and gatherers as many had turned from their […]
Changing Customs to Follow God’s Way Living in the Great Rift Valley of Tanzania is a tribe of hunters and gatherers whose god, just two years ago, was the sun. Advent pastors befriended them and told them about a God who is above all gods. The response has been miraculous. The Word of God has […]
A Church of New Converts Begins in Musoma Pastor Johnson Odoyo TANZANIA “So there was much joy in that city” (Acts 8:8). At a funeral, Pastor Johnson Odoyo was led by the Holy Spirit to call for people to repent of their sin, to forgive one another and to find freedom in Christ Jesus. A […]
Celebrating Maize and Marriage TANZANIA – Pastors Johnson Odoyo and Amos Komanya were the ones selected in the month of November to visit the Hadzabe. Several encampments of this tribe of hunters and gatherers in the Great Rift Valley of Tanzania have committed themselves to following “the God who made the sun” and his Son, […]