For three weeks in August this summer the Wilson family, James, Jessica, Jemma, Jolyon, Johanna and Josiah (but not Jambo the dog) are travelling to Northern Tanzania with TearFund’s Transform wing and in Tanzania we will be with GoMAD ‘Go Make A Difference’. We are visiting Musoma on the shores of Lake Victoria where Go MAD have a base from which they serve the local town and surrounding communities. There is an orphanage, with mostly AIDS orphans; a local clinic; a mobile health education team; a football pitch where local young folk gather; various small scale building projects focusing on pit latrines and rain water tanks. We will have the opportunity to get involved in any or all of these projects.

So why are we going? TearFund’s David Westlake put’s it like this: “We go not change the world but to encounter God and be changed. By leaving our comfort, exposing ourselves to the poor and the amazing brothers and sisters who work in incredibly challenging situations our own sense of discipleship and mission is transformed. We meet with God. Our duty is to work out this encounter in the rest of our lives. To come home and live differently in the light of what we experienced.  You will not change the world by being on a Transform trip. But the world you encounter and the God who meets you there will change you for the rest of your life.  And through you, He will change the world.” 

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