A Messag e f r o m o u r Past o r :

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kn o w t h at t h e Sh ip e f am ily w ill b e a Sending Church:
t r em en d o u s b lessin g t o yo u r ch u r ch Calvary Baptist Church
Pastor Tim Leaman
In Ch r ist , 2127 Old Liberty Rd. W.
Westminster, MD 21157
Past o r Tim Leam an (410) 635-2800
www.cbc-md.org

Mission Board:
Gospel Furthering Fellowship
221 Hamilton Avenue
Myerstown, PA 17067
(717) 866-1964

Reaching
Datooga jumping the
Datooga woman

Contact Information:
Aaron & Nicole Shipe
Datooga
Phone: (410) 635-8579
Cell: (410)-259-9339
E-mail: aaron.shipe@gmail.com
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Learn more at
www.shipes2datooga.blogspot.com in

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Datooga children Tanzania
Who we are . . . Where we are going . . . Why the Datooga . . .

A aron was raised in a wonderful Christian

home where he was regularly exposed to
the Gospel. At the age of four he placed
his trust in Jesus Christ as his Savior. Just a few
years later he moved to Maryland and began to
attend Calvary Baptist Church. It was there that
he surrendered to preach the Gospel, there where
he preached his first message, and there where
he met and married his wife Nicole. Aaron
earned his B.A. in Missions and M.A. in Bible
Exposition from Pensacola Christian College.
While in Seminary he began to work as a youth
pastor at Pensacola Baptist Temple where he was
ordained. In 2003, he returned to Calvary Bap-
tist Church as Assistant Pastor. Since that time
he has led the youth ministry, taught adult Sun-
day School, preached on a bi-weekly basis, led
congregational singing, and organized several
T anzania, on the east coast of Africa is
surrounded by the Indian Ocean on its
east and by eight other countries to it’s
north, south,
A lthough the Datooga (pronounced duh-
toe-ga) live in a country that has a rela-
tively large Christian population, their
primitive lifestyle and separate
and west. It language has kept them almost
was here that completely separate from the
perhaps the population at large and therefore
most famous from the message of the Gospel.
words in the It is our desire to magnify the
modern history name of Christ and proclaim His “saving
of missions health” among the Datooga.
were uttered, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume” when
Henry Morton Stanley finally found the world Fast Facts About the Datooga
famous missionary/explorer David Livingstone.  Population: 150-200,000
It is a beautiful
country with a rich  Occupation: Herders (cattle, goats, sheep
variety of natural and, donkeys) and small plot farmers
wonders: from its (maize, beans, and millet)
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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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be used of God in whatever way He would
choose. She graduated from Pensacola Christian
College in 1999 with a B.A. in English. After
graduation she married Aaron and began serving
alongside him in ministry. She has served in a
variety of ministries including Children’s
Church, Bible Clubs, Sunday School, Ladies
Visitation, and Vacation Bible School. Along
the way, God has richly blessed Aaron and
Nicole with six children.
I
Mount Kilimanjaro.
t is to this land of great natural beauty that
God has called our family. For this land of
great beauty is also home to some 41 mil-
lion people consisting of over 150 different peo-
ple groups. And although officially Tanzania is
30% Christian, there still remains several sizeable
tribal groups that remain virtually cut off from
the knowledge of the Gospel. One such group is
the pastoral Datooga tribe with a population
around 200,000.
Religion: Animists with beliefs in witch-
craft and sorcery. They believe the spirits
of their ancestors are alive and interact
with living society. To ward off evil spir-
its they wear protective charms.
“Th at t h y w ay m ay b e kn o w n u p o n
ear t h , t h y savin g h ealt h am o n g all
n at io n s. Let t h e p eo p le p r aise
t h ee, O Go d ; let all t h e p eo p le
p r aise t h ee.” —Psalm 67:2-3