TANZANIA

Climbing For Christ

TAKING THE GOSPEL TO MOUNTAINOUS AREAS OF THE WORLD WHERE OTHER MISSIONARIES CANNOT OR WILL NOT GO

Tanzania

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There is religious freedom as well as equal rights and opportunities for Christians and Muslims to worship and share their faith in Tanzania. This allows room for the Holy Spirit to work. The coast, Zanzibar and many of the southern provinces are Muslim dominated. Muslim “extremists&rdq...

Expeditions

Mission: Kilimanjaro 2026

Singing praises for salvation

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Another outreach expedition (our fourth) during which guides and porters continue to learn how to deliver the Good News on the mountain. They put teaching into practice and rescue the lost on Africa’s tallest and most popular mountain.

Mission: Kilimanjaro 2025

Go tell it on the mountain

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Climbing For Christ’s 18th expedition to Tanzania, where C4C was birthed in 1998, is scheduled for December. We conducted our first mission to Kilimanjaro in 2007. Thirty Climbing For Christ members have participated in Mission: Kilimanjaro, many more than once. Twenty-three members have gone to the summit at least once.

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Guide to Kilimnajaro

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About the mountain: Mount Kilimanjaro is located in Tanzania near the border of Kenya, about 330 kilometers (205 miles) south of the equator. Kilimanjaro is a massif that measures 60 kilometers (37 miles) by 40 kilometers (25 miles). It consists of three extinct volcanoes: Kibo (5,895 meters...

Shelly Torres

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Age: 29. Residence: Chicago, IL, USA. Family: Single. Occupation: Office Manager for Premium Surge Promotions (our company makes the Burger King kids' meal toys). Church: Chicago Tabernacle. Missions with C4C: First. How long have you climbed? Well, climbing more so recent — I&rsquo...

Randall McGarvey

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Randall McGarvey participating in the 2010 Canadian Ski-Orienteering championships. Age: 43. Residence: Rochester, NY USA. Family: Married to Denise, with two grown children, Emily and Forrest. Occupation: Software Engineer at General Code. Church: LifeTree Fellowship in Pittsford, NY. ...

Bob Kuebler

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Bob Kuebler on Armstrong in New York's Adirondack mountains. Age: 55 at time of trip. Residence: Buffalo, NY, USA. Family: Unmarried father of three — Joseph, 28; Steven, 26, and Michelle, 17. Occupation: Youth Ministry. Church: Last Days Fellowship. Missions with C4C: First. ...

Michael Heitland

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Age: 35. Residence: South Fargo, ND, USA. Family: Married to Michelle with three daughters — Makayla, 15; Maleah, 12, Molly, 2. Occupation: Chief Technology Officer, V3 Technologies. Church: Bethel EFC, Fargo ND. Missions with C4C: First. How long have you climbed? 8 years. Type of ...

Mission: Kilimanjaro 2013

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Date: March 13-27. Length of trip: 14 days. Team size: 4-6 members. Purpose: To continue working with indigenous members of the Kilimanjaro Chapter, teaching evangelism. Survey possibility of planting a full-time missionary in Marangu (one of the gateways to Kilimanjaro) to carry on the work done b...

Joshua Cook

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Joshua with his father in the Holy Cross Wilderness in Colorado. Nationality: Philippine-born Coloradan. Occupation: Dallas Seminary student. Missions with C4C: Two (Haiti 2012 and Kilimanjaro 2013). How long have you climbed? Since middle school. Type of climbing you do: If my passion was a ful...

Trip Report: Light in the African darkness

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As Elaine Fallesen taught the orphans at Far & Wide Children’s Home in Kambona, Malawi a series of Bible lessons she asked them several questions. The children answered without hesitation. What is the Bible? “The Word of God,” one of the children answered after several hands...

Wednesday, March 23

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The team has returned to the United States, landing in New York City at 1 p.m. local time. Everyone is headed to thier respective homes this evening to finish a 17-day Evangelic Expedition. We shared our last team devotional this morning in Amsterdam. It was called “Homeward Bound.&rdqu...

Tuesday, March 22

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We began our final day in Africa reflecting on the mission with a personal devotional called, “What's in a name?” This was based on 2 Timothy 2:19 and the fact that our heavenly Father knows our name. “You have learned many names on this trip,” I told our team, and we ...
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