Just a quick plain-text update from the Hogan family in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
Louise, Peter and I are reunited after a couple weeks apart while I trained church
planters in Bangladesh, and Louise finished up the classroom phase of her Birth Attendant training in Perth.

BANGLADESH
What an awesome opportunity to be able to train YWAM's first Bangladeshi frontier missionaries in 12 years!
I had 26 students and they were so receptive. The conditions are spartan and the weather was HOT, but the
Spirit burned hotter.
I am so excited to hear the reports as these trainees go out after their SOFM and start to multiply churches.
Several who had already been in the field learned so much they were planning on starting over to plant
churches that reproduce like rabbits rather that the Western-style "elephant church" which has babies slowly if at all.
Thanks for your generous help in making this trip possible. These developing world schools can't help with
my travel (or anything) so it was a blessing to have the funds to say "YES" to this opportunity.

TANZANIA
Peter, Louise and I and all snugged into a single room in at the YWAM base in Mwandege, Tanzania
(just south of Dar Es Salaam). There are a lot of things we are missing (like reliable internet connections,
balanced diet, cool air, privacy, flush toilets, etc.), but God is taking care of us and Louise is thoroughly
enjoying her outreach in clinic and village. Peter and I are doing some school, and traveling into Dar and nearby places.
We hope to get to Mozambique to revisit the work there next weekend.
To send this out we had to ride two VERY crowded dallah-dallahs (Bus/vans) into the capital (Dar)
and found a hotel with decent internet.
Back at the base we use my mobile phone as a modem and it just barely downloads most of our incoming emails,
but often balks at sending out email. So we travel about 45 minutes to send and surf.
Being on an outreach team is a new experience for us - even though we have been in YWAM 18 years.
There are many challenges. Laying down our rights (like making decisions as a family, and going with what the
team leaders decide, is hard after so many years of adulthood and leadership).
Keeping Peter properly nourished and not bored is also an item for prayer.
Please pray for grace and an ability to live free in Christ under any and all circumstances.

Thank you for your prayers and your support.
Please send any gifts to us at:
LOS OSOS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
1335 Seventh St Los Osos, CA 93402
805 528-2140

just enclose a note saying "Brian and Louise Hogan support"
THANK YOU!!!!

Brian Hogan, for the three traveling Hogans

Australia's Far West

These days I am in Perth where my wife is doing a midwifery school. I spend my days taking my son about trying to cram education into him. We have been visiting the museums (natural history, historical, and art), the Perth Mint, and wildlife parks. We done drives north and south as some new friends were kind and lent us a car for the weekend. I especially enjoyed the "Last Days of Pompeii" exhibit at the Museum of Western Australia. I have always wanted to see that stuff they dug out of the ash.
I'll post a few representative pictures.

The Wonderful Land of Oz

We made it to Perth, Australia after a long series of flights from Burbank to San Francisco to Sydney . . . The Winter weather is really nice, not hot, more like Summer in McKinleyville, CA. Now we are trying to get mind and body back on the local time zone.
Before leaving the LA area I enjoyed my high school's 30 reunion. The high point, though, was an elementary school reunion breakfast at John C. Fremont in Glendale, CA. So fun hanging out with friends made in fifth grade!