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Tumaini University 7 February 2010 Dear Friends at First Lutheran Church, Many warm greetings from Tanzania on this cool, rainy Sunday evening. I’m smiling and very happy because I’ve just come from the first youth recital of the children and youth who are taking music lessons in the Department of Music here at MUCo. There were guitars, flute, violin, cello, piano, and harp solos, a very nice piano duet, and of course some choir music. The director of the choir and a music teacher, fellow ELCA missionary Mrs. Carol Stubbs, told us to clap loudly, and we did! I’m writing to
you to say thank you very much for your generous contribution to
Educational Opportunities for Tanzanians, an ELCA level II project.
You dear and generous people at First Lutheran sent a check for $75
on December 15, 2008. Mr.
Ndayirukiye, originally from Rwanda, had a very narrow escape when
he fled Rwanda in 1994! Now he and his wife and four children have a
home in the far south of Tanzania. By God’s grace he was able to
bring his family to MUCo, where married student housing is very
scarce. He and his wife are raising their children carefully and
well. Their second child, a girl named Ninnette, was confirmed in
December 2009 and joined her brother at Kikatiti Secondary School
last month. She’s in Form I and her brother is in Form 2. Here are the financial details of your gift. The money came to me together with a gift of $100 from another church. Therefore, I’ve shown the calculations I received from the Lutheran Mission Cooperation, the body that receives the money here in Tanzania and gives it out to missionarieswho have set up level two projects. First, 10% of each check was deducted for “90%-lO% Missionary Sponsorship Split,” which left $157.50. I believe the deduction means that 10% was deducted and put toward my support. Then the $157.50 was changed to shillings. The amount of the check given to me to put in the Level II bank account was Tanzanian shillings 203,359.28. The reason that I’m so late in sending this thank-you letter to you is that I’m very, very busy. For example, one of my communication skills classes, which should have about 35 students, has 122 students! 1 need a microphone and a TA to help mark papers in that class, but I don’t have either. And when I turn my head to the left, I can see a pile of vocabulary notebooks over two feet high that I’m going to mark soon. Thank you so much for helping this worthy Lutheran family. God bless you all richly for your kindness and generosity. Yours in His
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