by Bruce Prescott | Dec 20, 2010 | Opinion
I have been reflecting on experiences during the joint Baptist-Muslim mosquito net distribution in Tanzania. Here are some of my thoughts. First, I was impressed with the mutual respect that people of different faiths show one another in Tanzania. Every village we...
by Robert Parham | Dec 17, 2010 | Opinion
When I entered the hotel lobby on the first morning of a Muslim-Baptist mission trip to Tanzania for the distribution of mosquito-repellent nets, I heard the sound system playing “Silent Night” by an American artist and felt the needed breeze from the...
by Robert Parham | Dec 14, 2010 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This is the third of several dispatches on the Muslim-Baptist mission trip to Tanzania. Read the first here and the second here. Tanzania is a nation of contrasts, having the highest mountain in Africa – Mount Kilimanjaro – on one side of the...
by Robert Parham | Dec 10, 2010 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This is the second of several dispatches on the Muslim-Baptist mission trip to Tanzania. Read the first here. A mosquito-repellent net now protects a Tanzanian family in which the father bears the Arabic name of Jesus, the mother bears the name...
by Robert Parham | Dec 8, 2010 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This is the first of several dispatches on the Muslim-Baptist mission trip to Tanzania. Three Oklahomans – two Baptists and a Muslim – left behind that state’s infectious fear of Islam to combat the infectious disease of malaria in...
