MAF Conference

Although it is now into April, I need to digress and go back to March to write about our MAF conference. We had a great conference which we shared with national and international staff. There were over 100 people came and many children too. Our speaker was Steve Kingori from MAF Kenya, and he was really good, speaking on our Relationships within our work, with our family and with God. Steve and his wife who also came down for the conference.


The children had their own programme to follow and they were blessed to have a couple of young Australians to run the older group for them. The younger ones had lots of stories and painting and craft sessions, run by different mummies for each session, and assisted by a number of very willing Tanzanian ladies, who gave up their Saturday and Sunday to do this. Lots was learned by many, as the children also covered relationships, and learned about their bodies, and the adults looked at how we are all part of the one body.


With the marriage relationship section, it was very interesting with the cultural differences. Considering it's not cultural to show affection to your partner, holding hands, kissing, hugging are not things that are commonly done. Also, communication is not great.