Tanzania
Tyren’s been in Tanzania now for 2 full weeks and I’ve finally been able to sit down and update the blog! God is doing great things in Tanzania! Tyren started his trip ministering in the mother church in Mwanza holding a few seminars a day for 3 days for those who were hungry for revival in their hearts. They were taught the importance of loving and worshipping God and about the love of God. God touched many lives, including Tyren’s and they broke out crying, laughing, waving cloths and dancing as the Presence of God came over them. Tyren was blessed by the people’s testimonies of sacrificial love to serve God. He and a small ministry team from Mwanza left that first Saturday for Shato.
In Shato, Tyren met some new challenges as he experienced the heart of God in the people there. He was able to minister to those who had lost their first love through seemingly overwhelming situations. As we were home praying, God used Amerel to give a word to refresh one of the pastor’s there and his family. As Tyren shared the word with him, God was able to reveal how He was going to use this pastor to refresh and teach others who have lost their vision because of seemingly hopeless situations.
In another village in Shato, Pastor Deus and his wife led a woman to Jesus, then prayed for her and God removed a tumor! She went to the bathroom to confirm the healing and the tumor was completely gone! Tyren experienced his own healing in Shato as he began vomiting and having diarrhea one night. Having had no communication with him that night, I began to pray with the kids that night for protection over everything he eats and drinks. The following morning he asked me to pray for him and decided that he must teach the people, even though he couldn’t stay away from the bathroom. We all prayed for him here and the next time I heard from him, he said that the Lord had completely healed him after his first teaching that morning! Praise God! He released the church to preach, love and heal the sick in the village the next day and two men, who had seen them earlier in the village evangelizing, came to them and said they wanted to receive Jesus! Hallelujah!
They left Shato Friday for Geta where God is continuing to do new and great things in the lives of His people there. Tyren and the ministry team will be leaving Geta to return to Mwanza Monday morning and he will be back in Lichinga Thursday.

Earthquake!
I couldn’t end the blog without sharing that we experienced an earthquake here in Lichinga shortly after 1:15 a.m. in the middle of the night Tuesday (actually, Wednesday morning) that left all of us shaking in our beds! I was actually already woke and thought I heard the sound of rolling thunder in the distance; but as it came closer, the sound got louder and then the house began to shake. It felt as if a big wave was passing underneath the bed from the foot to the head and then continuing underneath the house. I could still hear and feel the house trembling for at least 1 full minute after the earthquake had passed. The shaking woke up Chayah, but my other two sleepyheads never knew what hit them until I told them in the morning! We are all safe and sound and the house is still standing! The only noticeable effect of the earthquake is that it seems to have forced dirt up through the underground filter in our borehole. Today I will be emptying out the tank completely and refilling it until the water runs clear again.

Thank you to all of you who have been praying for us!

Tyren and Tiffany Haynes