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Officially Assigned
This morning, Jonathan and I accepted the assignment invitation from Tanzania. They asked him to be a full-time Vernacular Media Specialist (see article on front page of our website: www.jonathananddana.com for info on VMS) and asked me to fill a critical role as a full-time Accounting Manager. The branch there is very flexible so once I’m there if the accounting role doesn’t take a full 40 hours a week I will be free to help the branch in other ways and/or help Jonathan with the VMS work. I’m excited that my accounting skills can fill a critical need in Africa! So we’ve accepted those roles realizing that God will use us in these and many other ways.
If you’re like me, you’re not that great with geography, so you may not know where Tanzania is located. This may help. Tanzania is in East Africa. See map:
The area of Tanzania we’re assigned to is Mbeya in Southwest Tanzania. See map:
Do you see it? Look down towards the border with Zambia.
Some places of interest in Tanzania:
Serengeti
Mount Kilimanjaro – highest peak in Africa
As far as a timeline, the orientation begins in August so we need to be at 100% support by June to have time to get our visas and plane tickets. We will have a month of orientation followed by 4 months of Swahili language school. By the end of 2007, we’ll be ready to jump into the work.
So, that’s a quick rundown of the basics. We’ll share more about Mbeya and what God is doing there as time goes on. We’re excited to see people get involved in this and jump on board! If you’re interested in partnering with us please visit the partner link on the front page of our website: www.jonathananddana.com.