This is Brad and Tammie Harvey, and their 3 children, Bradley, Yuda and Morrie.

The Harveys have been in Tanzania since the early 90's.

Brad is a trained and well experienced linguist and the chief administrator of the translation work.

In that role, he has initiated a relativly new concept that has come to be known as the "Cluster Approach" in the field of translation work.

The end result is that without any sacrifice in translation quality, simultanious works can proceed on up to 10 languages!This approach greatly increases productivity by reducing the over-all time and resources previously expended in producing each language.

In his "spare time" Brad doubles as a maintence man, construction foreman and of course, ahusband and father... and occasionally, fill-in preacher and/or bible teacher.

Tammie is the Asst Director of Personnel.She organizes and coordinates all training events and meetings, watching over the needs and schedules of visiting short-term mission workers (like June and I). She is also the EAB Budget Director, oversees the Scripture Impact Team, EAB's office staff, handles most labor issues and is the go-to person on most issues relating to the local community or government relations.

Of course she maintains her vital roles of wife and mother to her immediate family and is often involved in the health and educational issues of the extended EAB family.

Edson and Rose Kamanya have three children, Jedi, Joshua and Neema.

Edson is the Director of the Scripture Impact Department of the EAB.In this capacity, he makes regular trips into the villages and meets with the local leaders of the villages, church leaders and the general population as well.

Edson is a Tanzanian national and has been working and training under Brad and Tammie from the beginning of their work in the Morogoro area.He is a very dedicated Christian worker who loves God's Word and all the people of Tanzania.This is an excellent combination for the projects carried out through Scripture Use.

Edson has become a well known, highly respected and loved figure among the people of the mountain villages.I personally witnessed this while traveling with him.

Lake Tanganyika, Mountain Best...To help support their family, Edson and Rose also run a small business of selecting, roasting, grinding, packaging and selling and excellent private label coffee.No kidding, it is an excellent blend and is available in whole bean or drip grind.

June and I try to keep enough extra on hand for those interested.If you'd like to give his coffee a try, justcontact us... give us your email address and just type "Edson's coffe" in the space provided.We respond with the information.

The newest EAB Team members are the Ingrams.

Andy and Shonna Ingram joined the team in June of 2008.Their four children, Gavin, Grayson, Garrett and Genna are with them.

Andy is involved in the translation work and his official role is Assistant Director of Language Affairs.

With his 10 years in church administration experience, Andy is administrator on the Scripture Use Team.

Shonna supports the branch in the very important role of overseeing and arranging hospitality and logistics.

A requirement of EAB is a time of village living.Andy and Shonna moved into a village (Braga) that has an orhanange.In the seven weeks they were there, they were touched deeply in caring for the children.See the Slide Show.

In this picture, Brad is working with Raymond as he leads a translation team.

It is a humbling experience to witness the translation process.Everyone involved istotally dedicated to producing the most accurate and understandable translation possible.They will labor over a single phrase untile they are fully in agreement that it conveys the meaning of the original text and in terms clearly understandable.

The positive impact computers have brought to bear on the process of translation is simplyincalculable!Consider the speed and accuacy advantages, coupled with the added ability to carry so many volumes of additional translations, multiple comentaries, dictionaries and Thesaurus volumes and any other volumes deemed valuable to the tranlation process...all contained in a laptop that weighs only a few pounds...you begin to get the picture.

Dr. Barry Funnell is from South Africa and works with The Word for the World Organuzation. For the last several years he has worked closely with Brad and Tammie Harvey at the East Africa Branch in Morogoro, Tanzania..

Barry ran the Language Center and worked with the nationals organizing classes and recruiters for the Translation School there. Pictured here with wife, Julia, daughter, Lisa and sons, Timothy and Daniel.

Dr. Funnell is currently training for a 1,000 mile treck by hand-cyle to raise money for translation projects with The Word for the World Bible translation projects.

Brad at work in one of his roles...
as construction supervisor during the construction of an a Training Center add-on to the Language Office.

With this additional facility, the on-going training of nationals for their role in translation work can be greatly increased.

Rick Rhen was a God-send for Brad and the EAB Team.

Rick, on a short-term mission with his wife Linn, stepped up at just the right time to oversee the vital foundation construction.

It was truly amazing to see how much Rick was able to accomplish
in the 6 weeks they were there.His tireless persistance and expertice were just what was needed to get the job done!

June and I thoroughly enjoyed our time with Rick and Linn and quickly became good friends.