Weekly we visit all four project villages above. On Mondays we’re in Kipo and Tuesdays Kipugira where we feed the children in our after-school program. We have properties in these villages dedicated to the Dinner Clubs; currently we’re raising funds to dig wells. All-day Saturday we spend with the children...
It is simple to say, ‘Dinner Club’, but in practice it’s much more complex in the operation and impact of this exciting, ever-growing program. From the bumpy drive on the road along the Rufiji, to the back-breaking work of preparing the meal, Dinner Club Ngorongo is consistently and steadily growing...
March 18th, 2021 | Graydon Baker One week ago, I was in Tanzania. Before that, from July 2020 to March 2021, my family lived unrestricted between rural and urban Tanzania during the height of the pandemic, freely operating our mission and safari business. The family business has been in operation...
In 2016 Baker & Sons Safari Co commissioned the carving of 50 Christmas Nativities, handmade with African Rosewood and Ebony features. Tanzanians are among the best wood carvers on the continent, and this 13-piece nativity set is distinct in its beauty and quality; how it was made, from what materials,...
Editor’s Note: In July of 2018, a team from Emmanuel Baptist Church in Chatham, Ontario came to join East Africa River Mission in Tanzania to build a house for a pastor and his family in the Rufiji village of Ngorongo. So significant was this undertaking, that the groundwork for this...
Much has been accomplished this past summer. There is not enough room in this note to share it all, but over the coming weeks and months we’ll do our best to disseminate the stories and unpackage the footage for the intended purpose of giving due reverence to our LORD, letting...
a note from the director. As I walked along the Indian Ocean this morning, Friday July 20th in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, brown paper envelope in hand, I considered the significance of the project before our mission in the coming weeks and months. In this brown envelope I was carrying Tanzanian shillings,...
7 BAPTISMS IN AN OLD ELEPHANT WATER HOLE By Graydon Baker Years ago, the land that our mission uses in the heart of the Rufiji was owned by a German entrepreneur. He built and opened a safari camp, and in the local tongue called it his little dream. He worked...
By Max & Lischa Woodley It was a Sunday morning in 2016. Our church was playing the Bakers’ EastARM video update from Tanzania East Africa when my then fiancé and I simultaneously turned to one another and whispered at the same time, let’s go! Coincidentally, following that spark...
A YEAR OF PROMISES FULFILLED A Christmas message was delivered to the nation of Tanzania, through the ministry of East Africa River Mission, declaring Jesus as the only Son of God and salvation gift to mankind. By Graydon Baker With the turn of 2017 came a looming promise, brought...
Above is the budget in Swahili for the Sunday School open-air building that we plan to build in Ngorongo village, the same budget we used for the construction in Mloka (click ‘Video Footage of Children’s Playground and Sunday School built by EastARM in Mloka, Rufiji‘). This does not include the...
This upcoming July a short-term mission team from Emmanuel Baptist Church in Chatham, Ontario will be boarding a plane destined for Tanzania. East Africa River Mission will welcome this team into the Rufiji to work with and help open our newest village of focus, Ngorongo. As EastARM receives invitations to...
The Day The Rain Didn’t Fall Written by Sarah Baker If you come into our little isolated village the first greeting you receive will likely be from very small hands, waving and grasping and little feet running, they will want to touch your skin and hair. Some, the older and...
*The Indiana Mission Team were front page news in their local paper following their return from Tanzania. Photo/Article courtesy of ‘THE NEWS SUN’ kpcnews.com Written by Mitch Wysong, Cosperville Team Leader I looked into the dark eyes of the young African boy as he shuffled his feet in the...
The Official EastARM Pins Have Arrived! Designed by a supporter of the mission (paintingposies.com), it depicts an elephant and reads ‘Rufiji’, rightly so – our EastARM School Project is built on land a half kilometre off the Rufiji River, land regularly visited by African Bush Elephants. Get your pin today,...
The youth group of Cosperville Baptist Church in Indiana raised $9000 towards the EastARM school building project in Tanzania, East Africa. They rallied their community, many local businesses donated items, and in the end they hosted a big raffle with a line of attendees stretching out the door of their church...
Up a long lonely and ancient river is a little village in East Africa calling out for partnership. Specifically, through a safari company and the family who owns it in the bush, a school has been requested to teach English to all the villagers, young and seasoned, and EastARM has...