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Thursday, June 23, 2011

Salvatorian Parish of Mkuranga (S. Jeanette and S. Ellen)

Tailor School

S. Ellen and S. Jeanette with two SDS Sisters

Carpentry School

Parish Church

Encounter Tanzania Group at Mkuranga
On Thursday June 17th, we took a trip north of Dar to the Salvatorian parish of Mkuranga.  They have many ministries. We visited and took pictures of Ellen and I with the two Salvatorian sisters, the carpenter school, and the parish church (note the drums). One of the sister's is the sacristan. There is a picture of the whole encounter group,our three seminarian guides and the paster and two brothers in front of the sister's convent. The sister's gardens were impressive. They have kindergartens that were on winter holiday. We toured the dispensary with Brother Jeramiah, a recently graduated nurse. They have a tailor school and masonary training. We ended the visit with lunch which included a German volunteer doing his year of service.