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Mission Board:
Gospel Furthering Fellowship
221 Hamilton Avenue
Myerstown, PA 17067
(717) 866-1964
Datooga jumping
Reaching
Datooga woman
the
Contact Information:
Aaron & Nicole Shipe
Phone: (410) 635-8579
Cell: (410) 259-9339
Datooga Tribe
E-mail: aaron.shipe@gmail.com
Learn more at in
www.shipes2datooga.blogspot.com
Sharpening a spear
Datooga children Tanzania
Who we are . . . Where we are going . . . Why the Datooga . . .
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several foreign missions trips. world famous na- Language: Datooga– Only 5% know the
icole was also raised in a godly tional parks like the national language Swahili
Serengeti and
Christian home and was led to the
Ngorogoro Crater
Evangelism: 99% have not heard who
Lord by her mother as a young child. Jesus is.
While in high school, she surrendered her life to to the world’s tallest free standing mountain—
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Mount Kilimanjaro. Religion: Animists with beliefs in witch-
be used of God in whatever way He would
t is to this land of great natural beauty that craft and sorcery. They believe the spirits
choose. She graduated from Pensacola Christian
God has called our family. For this land of of their ancestors are alive and interact
College in 1999 with a B.A. in English. After
great beauty is also home to some 41 mil- with living society. To ward off evil spir-
graduation she married Aaron and began serving
lion people consisting of over 150 different peo- its they wear protective charms.
alongside him in ministry. She has served in a
variety of ministries including Children’s ple groups. And although officially Tanzania is
30% Christian, there still remains several sizeable “That thy way may be known upon
Church, Bible Clubs, Sunday School, Ladies
tribal groups that remain virtually cut off from earth, thy saving health among all na-
Visitation, and Vacation Bible School. Along
the knowledge of the Gospel. One such group is tions. Let the people praise thee, O
the way, God has richly blessed Aaron and
the pastoral Datooga tribe with a population God; let all the people praise thee.”
Nicole with six children.
around 200,000. —Psalm 67:2-3