Tasmania to Tanzania: Church family camp

This last weekend was the St Margaret's Church family camp. I truly love being part of this church. In many ways it's like my base, and one of the places where I feel I really belong. No matter what I'm doing during the week at an American-run school, on Sunday I get to hang out with a random group of people where no one culture is dominant, and we simply find unity in our desire to worship God. There are two St Margaret's congregations - one English speaking and one Swahili speaking (which is about 10x the size of the English service!) In a few weeks we are having a combined service which will be great :) I love it that quite a few Tanzanian people come to the English service...it's such a blessing.

So, this last weekend the English congregation spent two nights at Maua, a beautiful spot about 1.5 hours away from Moshi. It's the same place we went as a teacher group in our first week in Tanzania. Going back to the same place was a good opportunity to reflect on the last 9 months (has it really been that long???). It was most definitely a family camp, with 80+ people including 35ish children! I spent a lot of my time rocking babies, eating with kids on my lap, and playing games to amuse little ones. I did have my own room though, so got some nap time in there as well. Anyway, here are some pics of the weekend: