Exactly the Same

The Maasai tribe in Tanzania, West Africa are cattle herders. The group with whom we are partners have been forcibly relocated several times, and are devoted Lutheran Christians.

In some ways they could not be less like us, but in other perhaps more important ways, they are exactly the same, brothers and sisters in Christ, sinners saved by God's grace.


Herb Hafermann, the missionary we have helped support, emailed that when this evangelism-oriented congregation experienced a number of challenges, including the loss of their church building, the death of a German missionary, and the death of a young boy who accidentally ate poison berries, their faith was opposed by “a radical Assembly of God group that regularly preaches that the Lutherans are not saved and actively attempts to re-baptize the Lutherans.”

This is not the way is should be among Christians. In any case, we are called to bear one another’s burdens (Bear one another's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.  Galatians 6:2), not exploit them.

Please pray for the Christians of Tanzania as we seek additional ways to help them.