Missionary Home Progress

Perhaps you were aware that our extendable kingdom hall was on a plot rather larger than the hall itself.

The Governing Body decided some time ago that the space was to be used to construct a home for Arusha’s missionaries. Since the spring Tony and Ann Porter, our friends from South Africa, as well as two couples from Wales, Glen and Jo Cole and Dan and Kim Bath, have been with us helping with the construction work.

The work has been moving on apace. When we left in May for Blighty the foundations were nearly complete. When we returned the walls were nearly complete.

Now the roof is complete, the walls have been drylined and painted and they’ve started first-fix electrical installation and tiling. The house is straightforward in its design but built to a very high standard. Each missionary couple will have a room about six metres square which includes an en suite bathroom and a walk-in wardrobe. There’s a laundry, a large open plan public area used as a dining room and living room, with the kitchen facilities at one end. There’s a large generator for power outages and water storage facilities for when the water gets cut off.

Tony, project overseer, shows the Muxlows what they’ll be missing out on since they were reassigned to Moshi

The unfinished kitchen

 

Tiffany Karshnick keeps a low profile

‘Choncho’

There’s also been some changes to the missionary team. Our circuit overseer Rick Stringer and his wife Malin have completed two years with our circuit now and they are staying for the moment. Mika and Hanna Santikko are still here, our Finnish friends who graduated from a recent Gilead class. Last month they were joined by Todd and Michelle Hodgins, whose acquaintances we renewed at the English Special Assembly Day.