Trip Report: Tanzania
Kilimanjaro Chapter training (first quarter 2026)
The mystery of bearing fruit
By DAMSON SAMSON, Africa coordinator
(Note: The 2026 first-quarter training of Kilimanjaro Chapter guides and porters was Damson’s 40th ministry trip to Tanzania since he answered the call to join Climbing For Christ’s staff in 2014.)
I was looking at things like a farmer who has seeds waiting for it to rain so he can go for planting. Even after planting he cannot figure out to how the seed will germinate and grow and what it will bring forth.
From the starting day of this trip – on March 18 – I never hoped that the trip would be as fruitful as it was. But God was aware of it all.
What I cared about was to make sure I heard Him well and did it in the right way.
The Lord visited His people to my surprise. Starting with the special service we had in Moshi on March 25, which brought wonders, many were not expecting to see what the Lord did. Eighty-nine people attended and 23 people asked Jesus into their hearts and lives.
Personally, I was not expecting it, but God had already prepared the group and we thank Him. I remember after the service in Moshi another guide came to me and said, “We thank God for this meeting. We have been blessed to attend, and we believe this will continue.”
Asking my team, they have been hearing the very same story and wondered how God arranged it all to be in the way it was.
Coming to home visits from March 26-30, I could not calculate but God was in control and the way people responded to the Truth was amazing. The sick being prayed for was amazing. His ways are not like our ways. God does extraordinary things where man cannot comprehend.
I continue thanking God for the team we had. Really it was a great team, tirelessly following me all places we went to. This was not easy as many had things to do and many were in the field planting and weeding. But these brothers – John Mollel, Elia Yona, Joshua Murutu, Asheri Mariko, Eliakim Mwanyika, Jonas Minja, and Daniel Nassar – offered themselves to make sure we accomplished the mission.
I also thank God for visiting the Maasai people and helping me understand more. Sometimes we say all are reached with the Gospel, but in truth many are not reached yet. Some Maasai people do not yet know who Jesus is and it is difficult for them to understand God exists. We cannot tell them about the power of salvation for they know nothing. How can they ask who God is? But we are praying that the seeds we have planted in their lives will grow and bear fruit.
Wishing he knew then what he learned now.
Christ is still a mystery to some until now. A man, Babuel Lyimo, who is 83 years of age, was surprised on my last day of house visits and he confessed that he has gone to school and did a master’s degree in America, but he wished he could have been taught what I was teaching when he was still young because it could have profited him much.
Christ has not yet been revealed to the world, and we have more work to do even to those who are older because they have not yet been exposed to the Truth of the Bible.
As it was in the time of Jesus’ preaching of the Gospel, many could follow Him but still their leaders blocked them from the Truth. That’s why the Bible says those who are leading are the ones who are misleading you.
From this trip I am learning that it is only the Word of God that gives hope; otherwise it should be hard for everyone to excel in life if God is not at work.
“I was naked, and you gave me clothing” (Matthew 25:36). Widows, above, received material from Damson. Below, “I was sick, and you cared for me” (Matthew 25:36).
Those sick people who are not yet visited, they die before their time because they feel they are not loved anymore. Visiting them makes them stand again and see life again. This is what I have testified during this trip.
Love brings about joy to many who feel rejected and forgotten. We can hold hands to make sure those in tears should stop crying and have time to praise God for their life.
Finally, I wanted to thank those supporting Climbing For Christ for this mission, that heaven should protect them and cover them. They don’t know how far their support is going, but God will surprise them one day to say, “You fed me when I was hungry, you visited me when I was sick, and you dressed me when I was naked.” Then they shall answer, “Where did we feed you, visit you, and dress you?”
He will answer: “What you did for the least of these, you did for Me.”
May heaven continue blessing all members and prayer teams for the good job done. I have seen God planting and accomplishing all to His glory. 
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