Bethany Lutheran Church to host breakfast for Tanzanian mission trip
Members of Bethany Lutheran Church of Cushing will host a Tanzanian Mission Trip benefit pancake breakfast on Sunday, Aug. 7, from 10 a.m. into the noon hour.
The menu will include pancakes, sausage, fruit, orange juice, coffee and perhaps a surprise or two.
A free will offering will be taken at the breakfast and all proceeds will benefit the Iringa Hope micro financing cooperative in Tanzania. Two years ago funds raised through Bethany helped jump start this cooperative in the sister church parish of Kitapelimwa, in Tanzania’s Iringa Province.
Members of the Tanzanian 10 mission group, including four associated with Bethany, will be traveling to Tanzania in October. “We hope to renew old friendships and meet new people on this return visit for eight of the ten members of the mission group,” said Tom Crawford, one of the team members. The group includes two nurses who will provide clinics on six different days in the five of the rural villages which make up our sister church parish of Kitapelimwa.
The group will include Lois Brenner, Norm Siekman, Peggy (Edeburn) Howell and Crawford, from Bethany. Others on the trip will include Norm’s daughter, Kat Moses;, Ryan Engelstad and his two children, Gretta and Gabe from Zion Lutheran in Cottage Grove. All of the above are returning veterans of at least one trip. Two newcomers, Candy and David Westlund, are joining for their first trip to Tanzania. Ryan and Candy are both registered nurses.