From bustling basketball courts to quiet daily rhythm at Lake House of Prayer, Stephen and Loyce Veryser’s ministry in Tanzania bridges the physical and the spiritual. This fall, as they celebrate new beginnings—a completed basketball court, a renewed retreat center—they remind us that faith, like sport, flourishes through community, perseverance, and grace.
In addition to teaching deaf students extra math classes in Tanzanian sign language at Bwiru Boys Technical School in Mwanza, missioner Stephen Veryser helps coach basketball at the school and fund improvements of the court.
Team work has helped build the cement slab for a basketball court; now let’s finish it together.
The Veryser family takes to the court and wades in the water.
Steve Veryser interviews Mwalimu Samo about his path to becoming a Tanzanian Sign Language interpreter.
Steve Veryser reads and ponders a few signs of the times.
Steve Veryser discovers a unique slice of Tanzanian life — professional volleyball — by reconnecting with a former neighbor.
Teaching deaf high-school students in Tanzania math and capoeira brings new insights into the mutuality of mission.
17 years after first teaching math at a Tanzanian high school, Steve Veryser returns to help educate deaf students there.
