Bill and Cyndi's House

Bill and Cyndi's house is the house reserved for the Mission administrator. It is the newest of the houses, very nice and comfortable, and the rooms are very large. Home construction in Tanzania is still not what it is in the U.S., however! Because it is really expensive to ship furniture from the U.S., the Mission's houses are furnished with furniture that has been collected from various missionaries over the years.
The first picture is of the front of the house.



Next is the garage area for some of the Mission vehicles.

Bill and Cyndi made home-made pizza for us every Sunday night. It was really good!
Bill was the "crust maker".

Jan is on the left, then Bill, then Cyndi.

Debbie D., Eddie, and Jan.

Bill and Cyndi, Ron, Debbie, Eddie

On Tuesday nights we had a devo at Bill and Cyndi's house. The week these photos were made was one of the weeks that some nursing students from Harding University were at Chimala.
They really enjoyed working at the hospital.

The three men on the right hand side of the couch work with the Gospel Chariot, which is sponsored by World Bible School. They go out into the villages to preach. We will write more about that work later.

On the left is Chris Raynor, a missionary in Chimala from California. He and his wife, Tam, have been at Chimala about five years and are scheduled to return to the States in December. Chris works with the Bible College and the School of Preaching.

Bill and Chris

This is the road in front of Bill's house. The road is on Mission property, and it is part of the big circle that we walked (for exercise) every morning.

If you follow the road in the photo above, it curves to the right and goes toward our house. The part of the road after the curve and headed to our house is in the next photo.
There is a banana grove on the left, and on the right is our yard and a favorite place for monkeys to play after they have eaten their fill of bananas! Notice Jan's jacket----I don't think anyone in Texas was wearing a jacket in June or July!

Tanzania is famous for snakes----cobras, black mambas, and green mambas. The green mambas are ranked as the most dangerous snakes in the world because of their deadly venom and because they are also aggressive snakes. Mambas are usually up in the trees, and cobras are usually found on the ground. We always used flashlights when walking in the dark! Thankfully, we never saw a snake in the six weeks that we were in Tanzania!

Bill and Cyndi have 6 dogs, mostly for keeping snakes away from their house and yard. One evening just a few hours after we had walked home from the Tuesday evening devotional, the dogs started barking. They had killed a cobra on the path!

The next photo is of a puppy that belonged to one of Cyndi's dogs. That puppy went home to live with Cyndi's cook, Mama Betty.