Scriptures, Literacy books along with audio recordings being
sold during the Malila Gospel of Mark dedication in Ilembo.
The dedication celebration for the gospel of
Mark in Malila, one of the languages in the Mbeya-Iringa Cluster Project,
south-west Tanzania, took
place in the town of Ilembo
on Friday, 27
th August. The church where the celebration took
place was near the market - Friday is market day in that town. We had stalls
to sell various Scriptures and literacy books along with recordings on
cassettes and CD's, one outside the church and the other in the market. At first
sales were very slow but gradually things picked up. Women who had been selling
maandazi (doughnuts), bananas, potatoes and other small things came to the
stall to spend some of the money they had taken at their own stalls. It was an encouragement to see people who had
been unable to afford to buy any of our products earlier in the day use some of
their small profits to buy some books of Scripture as if they recognized that
these are of great value.