Saturday, November 29, 2008

Food in the nick of time











Faithful brothers & a happy evangelist

We have some fantastic brothers who are also very good friends. One such brother after seeing the condition of Alexander's bicycle, decided to step in and put his faith into action. We have roughly calculated that he pedals about 200km per week spreading the Good News. He was so happy, the picture explains it all

Your prayers and help make the difference

We have given the maize to the Church leaders to distribute to the members. They have all said a huge big thanks. And the look on their faces, money can't buy. One old lady told me that she had a dream the night before of someone coming to give her a bar of soap. They had run out of food from "piece work" the day before.


Food distribution

The local folks have been having such a rough time with a massive shortage of food. This not because they are lazy. A year ago almost to date they were planting and getting fields ready and were set to plant when the rain was to come end of October, but it never came until the 18th December. Then it rained so much that most fields were in standing water. It continued to rain almost non stop until about 7th or 10th of January. Their crops produced very little.

For the past 6 weeks many have been surviving on green mangos dried and then pounded into a meal that is then cooked to as sudza (maize meal). While I was in SA waiting on export documents I took the opportunity to share about the hunger situation. You folks are just the best! Your generosity and faithfulness has made it possible to get some food out to some folks who are really hurting. Thanks for your contributions to AIM Cape Town MOZAMBIQUE EMERGENCY PROJECT


Up-date, It's been a while

First of all we would like to say a big thank you to all who have been lifting us up before the Lord. We have had quite "wild" time. I (jinx) left to South Africa with Klaus & Sue on the 22 October to go and buy and do exportation of the Land Rover from SA. and the the importation into Mozambique. That sounds like a simple thing to do. Anything BUT.

To make a very long story short a lesson of PATIENCE was obviously need to be learned by me again. The import agent in Mozambique gave me a list of documents I would need and assured me that was all. You've guessed it. But when I arrived at the SA border I was informed that I needed an export permission permit which is only got in Pretoria. Praise the Lord for good friends. Klaus stepped in the gap and rushed around getting the document for me. When arriving in Mozambique the import agent who assured me that I did not need an inspection certificate wasted no time in asking me for that exact certificate. EEEEEK!
I eventually got home on the 21st of November. Dawn was quite happy to see me. Thanks to all who were PRAYING