On Monday, March 16, the government announced the first case of Covid-19 in the country of Tanzania. And so that week we saw the beginning of washing buckets in the stores, a few people wearing masks, and the name calling of foreign, white people. Local schools were closed, with not much notice to the parents, and the embassies advised their people to return to their homeland ASAP.
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| Multiple washing buckets at the Kigoma train station. |
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| Aaron washing his hands before going into the store. |
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| Kigoma market, with washing buckets at every stall. |
Here we are a month later, and the washing buckets at every store has become a norm. On Sunday we all dutifully wash our hands before going into the building, give a nod to our brothers and sisters in Christ while asking about their family and health. This past Sunday the blue plastic chairs were arranged about 2 feet from each other, an attempt at social distancing. But at the end of the service we sit in small circles and discuss the strangeness of this new normal.
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| Believers arriving for the Sunday service, washing their hands at the entrance. |
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| Cute toddler at church! |
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| A deacon and his family giving testimony of God's goodness. |
