A young Maasai warrior by the name of Lamnyak, met Anne-Marie and John Touliatos in a gift shop in Kiratu, Tanzania in July of 2022. The Touliatos family had just finished a bucket list adventure, summiting mount Kilimanjaro. As Lamnyak showed them around the shop, he told them about his home in Simanjiro Province. He shared that his people do not have access to clean water. The women walk 12 miles each day to haul water through the wilderness from a dirty watering hole. They have to fend for themselves against wild animals (lions and elephants included). Their children have no access to school. And even worse, they don’t know where their souls will go when they die. He said they need a well and someone to come and teach them about God.

Just 3 months later The International Ministry of Jesus (Anne-Marie is the director) partnering with this young man, Lamnyak and Charles Loleku (from Africa Inland Mission), drilled a well and hit water. No one believed they could find water there. For two years it hasn’t rained. The geologist searched and found the water near the only church building (a small mud structure) in the area. To the people it was a sign that God saw them and loved them. Here’s life Africa, under the leadership of Bishop Hotay, sent a team of evangelists to show the Jesus film to the people in their own language. 186 Maasai accepted Jesus and bibles (written and audio) were distributed to the new believes in their language.

A team of six people from the USA traveled to Tanzania for the dedication of the well and the showing of the Jesus film. They saw firsthand how destitute and isolated the Maasai are in that district. The people have no electricity, schools or heath clinics. 6000 people in the district are still without clean water and need wells in their villages too.

Lamnyak and the International Ministry of Jesus are asking for partners to join them to fund 3 more wells and supply bibles and the Jesus film for the remaining villages. God is so good and he is blessing these precious people.

The IMOJ team visited the only source of water for the Maasai living in Simanjiro Province. This water source is miles from where most of the Maasai live in the Bush.

Pictures from our visit in Sukuro Village

A warm welcome from the Maasai church in Terrat, a small town an hours drive from Sukuro village where the Bush Maasai live.