Banquet on November 9
Toloha Partnership Banquet for Clean WaterWhen: Saturday evening, November 9, 2013Where: The Arts Council 400 N Queen St, Kinston, NCTickets are available for $40 per person or $320 for a table of 8. *Tickets will be sold in advance only. The banquet will be hosted by Meteorologist David Sawyer from Channel 9 News and include a silent auction, sit-down dinner, music and a presentation about the Toloha Partnership Water Project by Daniel Makoko and Burt Rudolph (our Team Engineer from Kinston who traveled to Toloha in June).To purchase tickets, please send an email with your name, phone...
Read MoreDaniel Returns to Toloha
My trip to Toloha Village this year was quite different than any other trip I have ever made to Tanzania. This trip made me feel more optimistic, encouraged and excited. It brought back all the memories of my vision for my people: To bring them clean water, build a clinic, church, and orphanage, advance education, and make sanitation improvements. Also, this was the first time I was joined by my Christian brothers from the USA who have a strong desire to help my people in the village. They have made a commitment to initiate a long-term partnership with the villagers. They are joining me to...
Read MoreMore than Meets the Eye | The first Trip to Toloha
Why is it that people go on mission trips? Some might say that it is because they want to experience another culture so that they can develop a more realistic understanding of how the rest of the world lives. Others may say their main purpose is to assist our fellow man in his struggles and eventually religiously convert him. I have struggled with this question for a while now and have mulled it over every summer for the past three years. I was raised with a heart to serve and believe that as a follower of Jesus, I am called to serve others for my whole life. Prior to my trip to Tanzania...
Read MoreAn amazing gift from a group of children
Passion, determination and generosity along with child-like faith can do BIG things! This year the volunteers from Vacation Bible School (VBS) at Grace Fellowship Church in Kinston, NC graciously adopted Toloha Partnership as their mission with 100% of the offering going to support our cause. During the week of VBS, the children were encouraged to bring in change and any money they could raise in order to help the village of Toloha gain access to clean water and the Gospel. One of the focuses of VBS was missions and I was blessed to be a part of the “Missions” corner. We began the week by...
Read MoreBack in the USA!
It has been an amazing month for the Toloha Partnership! We had our first team trip to Toloha and everyone will be back in the states this week. Our Assessment team came back at the end of June and Daniel comes back today! We also had our first fund-raising and awareness initiative in partnership with the Erasing the Lines (ETL) annual event in Kinston! (Read about ETL here.) Plus, we have t-shirts!We have so much exciting news and we will be blogging about it all right here. There’s so much to share that we almost don’t know where to start, so this is a little teaser of what’s to come.There...
Read MoreWe Walk So They Won’t Have To
Toloha Partnership has been given the incredible opportunity of partnering with Son Set Ministries for one of their annual camps, Erasing the Lines (ETL). ETL is a week in which middle school and high school students from local churches in Eastern NC gather to spend the week serving and showing Jesus to the community. This week (July 17-21) ETL is celebrating their 10th year with over 165 students participating. When the students arrive they are broken into small groups (mixed ages/genders/churches) of about 10 students with a college or young adult leader. Groups are assigned varying...
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