Bega Kwa Bega

Grace and peace to you as we celebrate the risen Christ this Easter season! Thank you for your generous scholarship support for students throughout the Iringa Diocese. Your gifts have impacted the lives of so many individual students and have had a ripple effect on...

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with great joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now....

I have a clay pot that I brought back from my first visit to Tanzania 25 years ago. It's brick colored, like the dirt in that part of Africa. It's a little lopsided, slightly cracked, and stained with charcoal from being set near a fire many times. It may not look...

Last week, members of the Bega Kwa Bega community gathered on two evenings to hear the news from Iringa. There’s a lot to report. Since January, the diocese has hosted four travel groups. The BKB SPAS team visited six schools and held orientation seminars in eight...

The cathedral was packed with worshippers, spilling to overflow seating outside. Four choirs were assembled, and the brass band began playing prelude music outside. Pastors from around the diocese lined up, wearing their albs and bright red stoles. The 18 theologians...

This past month the Bega Kwa Bega team in Iringa has been focused on education, with six school visits and seminars in all eight districts to explain BKB policy and procedures. We’ve also been monitoring the lab construction at Ipalamwa and hosting teacher training...

Eunice Fultz has returned to Iringa for a visit, and oh, what fun we’re having! For those new to Bega Kwa Bega, Eunice and her husband, Pastor Don Fultz, were the original BKB coordinators, serving in Iringa and Minnesota from 2000 to 2013. When in Iringa, they...

Heri ya Mwaka Mpya! Happy New Year! One thing I love about being in Iringa in January is that it is common here to wish one another a happy new year, all month long. I arrived in Iringa the evening of New Year’s Day. My first days, I tended to financial paperwork,...

In the past year, almost 200 Bega Kwa Bega travelers visited Iringa, deepening relationships and understanding, and collecting stories of accompaniment. Here’s a sample of the feedback provided through our post–travel survey.   What were your key take-aways and...