A Message from our Pastor:

Aaron and Nicole Shipe have literally

grown up in Calvary Baptist Church. They
The Shipe
have served the Lord here for the last five
years. Aaron has served as assistant pastor
working effectively with our youth and in Family
virtually every other area of ministry.
Nicole has taken a leadership role in our La-
dies visitation and children’s ministries. I
strongly recommend that you prayerfully
consider supporting them. I know that the
Shipe family will be a tremendous blessing Sending Church:
to your church Calvary Baptist Church
Pastor Tim Leaman
In Christ, 2127 Old Liberty Rd. W.
Westminster, MD 21157
Pastor Tim Leaman (410) 635-2800
www.cbc-md.org

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

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

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Datooga children Tanzania
Who we are . . .
A aron was raised in a wonderful Chris-
tian home where he was regularly ex-
posed 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 Col-
lege. While in Seminary he began to work as a
youth pastor at Pensacola Baptist Temple where
he was ordained. In 2003, he returned to Cal-
vary Baptist Church as Assistant Pastor. Since
that time he has led the youth ministry, taught
adult Sunday School, preached on a bi-weekly
basis, led congregational singing, and organized
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several foreign missions trips.
icole was also raised in a godly
Christian home and was led to the
Lord by her mother as a young child.
While in high school, she surrendered her life to
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.
Where we are going . . . Why the Datooga . . .
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
relatively large Christian population,
their primitive lifestyle and sepa-
and west. It rate language has kept them al-
was here that most completely separate from
perhaps the the population at large and there-
most famous fore from the message of the Gos-
words in the pel. It is our desire to magnify
modern history the 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)

world famous na- Language: Datooga– Only 5% know the
tional parks like the national language Swahili
Serengeti and
Ngorogoro Crater
 Evangelism: 99% have not heard who
Jesus is.
to the world’s tallest free standing mountain—
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Mount Kilimanjaro. Religion: Animists with beliefs in witch-
t is to this land of great natural beauty that craft and sorcery. They believe the spirits
God has called our family. For this land of of their ancestors are alive and interact
great beauty is also home to some 41 mil- with living society. To ward off evil spir-
lion people consisting of over 150 different peo- its they wear protective charms.
ple groups. And although officially Tanzania is
30% Christian, there still remains several sizeable “That thy way may be known upon
tribal groups that remain virtually cut off from earth, thy saving health among all na-
the knowledge of the Gospel. One such group is tions. Let the people praise thee, O
the pastoral Datooga tribe with a population God; let all the people praise thee.”
around 200,000. —Psalm 67:2-3