Go Africa – 🇹🇿 Tanzania – Arusha
After returning from Engikaret, we had a late meal.
(Meals at the Arusha Base were always late,
and this day was no different.
A late lunch.)
The familiar road,
we headed toward New Vision School.
Not with the DTS outreach team,
but walking with the [모로뷰 more of You] team members along a familiar road.
We walked together, handing out Swahili Gospel tracts along the way.
It was their first time,
and it was also my first time walking this road with them.
But it was a strange kind of walk,
realizing that something I had often imagined earlier this year—walking this road together—
had already become reality.
At New Vision School, we met Nathan and Emily again, who were doing soccer ministry there and had also taught at Kona not long ago.
We had met them in Norway.
As they greeted me and said how happy they were to see me again,
I told them that although this trip was too short for us to have much time together,
there was something I really wanted to give them,
and I handed them a Swahili Gospel tract.
They thanked me.
As I was about to say goodbye and leave,
Nathan called me.
“Hey!”
He told me that he had recommended me to the Norway Base so that I could teach there.
He told me to wait for them to contact me.
I had been convinced that he had forgotten our conversation,
but Nathan had remembered and passed it on to them.
I wonder if I’ll be able to go back to Norway.
I smiled and thanked him.
Roah’s condition was gradually getting better.
Unlike earlier this year, when she was just beginning to walk,
she had grown a little more since then.
Here, she kicked a ball and walked around from place to place.
I didn’t realize how much I would regret that our time in Arusha was so short.
We met Ahadi and his family,
and had some time together as Koreans.
We hadn’t even been there very long,
but our team was already tired from the time difference, adjusting to a new place, and the long journey.
I had somehow made this time happen,
hoping that it would be a time of good food and recovery for our team.
It is something we continue to need,
and it is a command.
Rest.
Meeting Ahadi’s family and Suzi, who had helped us so much earlier this year,
made me think again,
“We can meet there again!”
It made me want to dream and hope again.
After that, we finished our short time and schedule at the Arusha Base
and ended the day.
Daniel Makunza, who had worked hard on the Swahili translation, was on vacation, so we couldn’t meet him.
Instead, I gave Suzi about 700 Swahili Gospel tracts
and asked her to distribute them to people here at the Arusha Base together with Daniel.
And so, the Arusha Base,
which had been a place with so many stories and so many difficulties,
had somehow become a place I would miss.
With the memories of the people who had sincerely worked hard and served us with gratitude in my heart,
we headed toward Dar es Salaam.