Stories

Kathy brought a fancy thing with her for teaching 40 Bible stories. In almost whatever language you like. And Ndau is one of them. THAT is WAY COOL.

Kids

What a lot of fun and then Bible stories. How cool is that?

House building progress

Wow! the guys have really got a move on. About a week ago we were just setting out where the doors would go and where the window frames when it got to the time to put them in, where they would go.

Aim conference in Nampula

It was a long trip there and back 3100km. We did enjoy seeing all our friends and fellow AIM'ers. It was a week long and while we enjoyed it our thoughts this year were not entirely on the conference. As many know we have outreach teams come during the June July South African school holidays. So I know I was really keen to see what was going on with the building work.

First day of work

Wow it's great to have a group of young enthusiastic guys and girls. They really got a move on with the building yesterday. We got the foundations dug, the stone packed in and the top concreted. An amazing amount of work in just one day. On Monday we will start to build to get to floor level.

Today we get ourselves packed up and we hope to leave Espungabera for Chibuwe near to Dombe. We are planning to have a picnic lunch along the road. We will be taking Nyarai with us who will be teaching the ladies "Farming God's Way" in the afternoon. We will then set up the Jesus film for the evening. We do ask for you to pray with us for that. Chibuwe Church is a very small Church plant and the leader is a very humble old man. We ask that you pray for Zacharias that he would be able to share the Gospel effectively. There are lots and lots of people around that area.

First team has arrived.

The Lord is good! The first of the outreach teams has arrived. They got here yesterday afternoon at about 4pm. What a fun thing being young! They did the trip from Johannesburg area right through to us in one shot. A few of them were a bit worse for wear but happy to finally get here. They were all in bed by 8pm and I think asleep as well. Probably the first really early night they have had in a long time.

Today we will get the spades into the ground for the first time and start digging the foundations of this new small house. We are expecting to make quite a lot of progress in a very short space of time.

We are also planning to get the girls in the team 3 of them, Carla, Laura & Precious to do some painting at Cecilia's house. We need to get the under coat done. The walls are all still raw cement.

Outreach

This year we will be hosting 3 outreach teams to Espungabera. While we were still on home assignment were quietly telling folks that this year was going to be crazy. IT'S WORSE THAN CRAZY! We have been planning and getting organized and trying to do our normal work at the same time. We knew it was going to be wild but BOY oh BOY. But it's great. We are preparing for new missionaries to join us on the field and to partner with us as we try to disciple and also train the Church leaders.

The outreach teams this year are going to mainly help us with building of a new house. So we can start receiving new missionaries. We are really needing to plant more Churches as the requests are forever coming in,... "When will you start a Church in our area". There is still such a huge area to cover and to get the "real Gospel" or the TRUTH into the hearing of the everyday people of this area. Most live out in the really rural or forest type ares.

Chitsama / Siyabuzana

After the let down a few weeks ago when I had gone out to do the final check with the department of agriculture director and we were turned down. We were quite demoralized and did not want to say too much about our next site that we have been trying to get as the site for Walter and Rosie out in the Chitsama area. We did find a place and last Saturday I went out with the agriculture director and we are going again for the official signing with the local folks and the government officials. We are confident that all will go well.

It seems to be just the place that we were looking for right in the middle of 4 Churches. It has a natural fountain or spring really close by. So we are excited and I'm sure Walter and Rosie will be happy with it as well.

Very busy

Thanks to all who have been praying. We do need your support as it does get difficult at times. A BIG sorry to all who read this site and not much has happened here for a while. I just plain and simple have not had the time to sit down and get the info up here.

Cecilia's house is getting towards finished and we hope that she will soon be able to move in. She is really getting anxious now and so she should. She has been in limbo for over a year now and needs to get into her own place.