Take a ride in the "living saloon"

Yep, that's right.  The Gerths have a car!!!  Well, actually it's a van...or rather, a bus.

We thank God for how he provided this car for us.  Now we can drive to church, work, school, town and many other places.  And thank you to all of our supporters who gave sacrificially so that we could buy this car.  We appreciate you!  We hope to bless others the way we have been blessed.

And yes, it really does say "Living Saloon."  The car was imported from Japan so maybe saloon means something different in the Japanese automobile industry?

The make and model of our van is the same as the local public transportation here in Musoma.  They call it a daladala.  Maybe we should decorate our van the way Tanzanians decorate their daladalas...

and if you arrive safely at your destination, you usually want to say...