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Dear Supporting Congregations,

Greetings in this new year of 2008! We hope that each of you had a meaningful and wonderful Christmas celebration and have had a good start in this New Year.

We had a nice Christmas celebrating with Kari’s brother and his family, who live in Arusha, and with friends from our community and Church. It is easier to focus on the real meaning of Christmas in Tanzania because there are not as many distractions that are in the USA. Christmas remains truly a religious and not a secular holiday here.

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Greetings in the name of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Much has happened since I last wrote to you in June of this year. I have gotten married, went on a honeymoon to Zanzibar, visited the USA briefly this summer, returned to Tanzania and have been busy with work.

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JGreetings from Tanzania! As you probably are aware the seasons south of the equator are reversed from those in the north. So here in Tanzania we are entering the cool dry season. The rains have stopped and we probably won’t get rain again until November. I am starting to wear fleeces, sweaters, and had to add a heavy blanket on my bed for the cool nights.
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Greetings from Tanzania! I wanted to write this letter to give you an update on my work and life.

It has been one year since Meredith died on 3/24/06. On that day Jesse, two of Meredith’s good friends and I went to a hillside near our house which was one of Meredith’s favorite places in Arusha. I read a poem, and Jesse read Psalm 23, and then we told stories filled with memories of Meredith and told how we continue to miss her and feel the loss. We finished by drinking a glass of wine and then returned to my house for lunch. I know Meredith would have approved of the day. I also think Meredith would be happy with the way the boys and I are adjusting and the changes that have occurred in this past year.
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Out of This World, that was truly my experience in January 2007 as I visited Zion’s missionary, Dennis Murnyak in Tanzania. Dennis partners with Heifer International and World Mission of the ELCA. He has directed fish farming in Tanzania for 24 years. This was to be an inspection tour of one area. I was most privileged to go along as we bumped and lurched over rocks, sloshed through water and slid through greasy clay. Only by a great stretch of the imagination could these be called roads.
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Greetings in the name of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ!

First I want to thank you for all the support, love, and prayers that you have given to our family over the past year. This has made a difficult time easier for us to get through.
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