An 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...
Read MoreAssessment Team Update!
Sunday was an incredible and much anticipated day! It was a day the Toloha Partnership team has anxiously awaited and a day Daniel has been longing for almost 12 years! It was the day the first team departed from Kinston, NC to travel to Toloha Village in Tanzania to begin, what we hope to be, a long-term partnership. Perry, Daniel, Josh and BurtThe Assessment Team consists of Daniel Makoko (native of Toloha Village), Burt Rudolph (project engineer) and team members Perry Rudolph and Joshua Spear.Sunday night at 11:25 pm the team flew out of Washington, DC to Istanbul,Turkey and then onto...
Read MoreIt’s GO Time!
Last May we began meeting and actively seeking God’s face for how we could be a part of Daniel’s story and a part of what the Lord is doing in Toloha, TZ. Now, just over a year since those prayer meetings, we are thrilled that an Assessment Team of four is leaving TOMORROW (Sunday June, 9th 2013) to go to Daniel’s home village of Toloha, TZ! I think these words from Daniel truly sum up our team’s sentiments:“Oh my Lord, it is real now! I did not believe if someday this would happen. A hope for getting clean water to my people in the village — I will always adore You (God) and...
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