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The Lisburn Leprosy Mission work and
witness team pictured last Tuesday night making final
preparations for their first Mission trip to Tanzania
next week (Tuesday 2nd October). L to R: (front row)
Maeve Egerton, Daphne Kerry, Margaret Wilson, Edith
Uprichard and Mandy Dugan. (second row) Team Leader -
Rev Tom Robinson (Deputy Director of TLMNI), Mark Noble,
Henry Thompson, Alan Walker, Sam Black and Maurice
McClure. (back row) William Robinson, Stephen Robinson,
Gary Smith, Ivan Crowe, Reuben Woolsey and Noel Twinem.
Missing from the photo are: Margaret Wallace, Jonathan
Robinson and John Tuff.
A work and witness team from the Lisburn Leprosy Mission will
travel to Tanzania next Tuesday morning (2nd October) to take
part in a project called 'Help Hombolo'. Led by the Rev Tom
Robinson, Deputy Director of TLMNI, the team of 20, which
includes 4 members from the Lisburn area, will be based at
Samaria, just outside the little rural village of Hombolo.
The settlement of Samaria is made up of 49 houses and many of
the 180 people who live there are affected by leprosy. Although
cured of the disease, and a threat to no one, they came together
in community some years ago because of the pressure and stigma
forced upon them by a wider society driven by fear and
superstition. Today they are subsistence farmers. They have no
source of income and exist depending on the crops they plant to
feed them and their families. They live in homes that are
unsatisfactory and beyond repair. The Leprosy Mission have been
asked to 'Help Hombobo' and the aim of the trip is help the
people of Samaria help themselves by coming alongside them to
build 5 basic but structurally sound houses. There is no
electricity or indoor plumbing in the village so these houses
will consist of a brick structure on concrete foundations and
floor covered by a corrugated tin roof.
The team met in the Leprosy Mission office, Lisburn last Tuesday
night (25th September) to make final preparations for their
first Mission trip to the area where they will work with the
people of the village and seek to show and share the love of
Christ.
25/09/2007
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