Update on the old Landy

This the Land Rover which we used to work with and knew it was getting to the end of days. So we bought with your help the green Land Rover Discovery. To be our travel vehicle and hoping the longer trips would spare old faithful above for bush work. Well shortly after having brought the green Discovery home. Old faithful gave up her last efforts and had massive engine failure.

After standing for over a year while I slowly removed the engine, stripped it, bought new parts and finally a few months back got the engine back in and gave it a short test run. We went to Siyabuzana and back. we noticed a small leak and thought it was oil. We left our Discovery in Pretoria to be old in the mean time and would use Old faithful sparingly until we could get a newer work vehicle. However that has turned out not to be the case.

We went to Chimoio on a regular shopping trip which takes about 6 hours. It took nearly 10 hours with the car overheating every 30 or so kilometres. And the same on the way back. We are absolutely baffled by the problem as everything was rebuilt according to manual. Now we have to make a plan.

We will bring the green Discovery back and carry on the work with it but all the time risking further damage and chance of a fair resale price to be put towards a much newer workhorse. Ai, shame!

We have not been left out in the cold though. Our group of fantastic supporters found a small traveling on tar road vehicle for our longer trips. And that we have with us in Mozambique but it won't make the rough dirt roads. it is too low. Please pray with us for a strong work vehicle.

2014 Plannig in progress

Before we get to 2014 we are going to have Toni with us again for the December university holidays. Yay! and there is a possibility that we some other family as well.

Jan 4th 2014 Manguisa is going to get married, I'm taking the wedding on behalf of American Board Church. He is one of our young men who is involved in the youth but is the young man heading up the Sunday school work along side Cecilia.

We are in the process of planning out reach teams for 2014. Each month on the first Tuesday of the month we have our missionary team meeting so I'm needing to work that into our arrival and departure dates of the outreach teams.

The plan is to have a team from the USA mid May to end June who will come and help Jenn and Cecilia in their youth work.

July to have a team from South Africa to help Jinx & Dawn

And in October to get a team from Brazil to help Cecilia and Jenn.

Our movements and plans

Dawn and I have a number of up and coming events. While we are the team leaders for the Mossurize Ndau team we still have our own ministries. I Jinx  have Bible school at Siyabuzana the week of 21-25 October.

We leave Espungabera on 6th November to travel to Kempton Park for our bi-annual AIM leadership conference for our Southern Region. The conference is for a week 10-16th November. Please pray for good meetings and for us to grow as leaders of our team. To be able to serve our team well and bring Glory to the Lord through our efforts.

Dawn has a doctors appointment just before the conference. And I have to pick up my new glasses. from Deidre. The old one's frames are broken and are held together with tape.

Then In December 9th to 15th we have our AIM Mozambique annual conference just outside of Chimoio. Our team are making the arrangements. There is still so much to be done. before we actually get there to set up and get ready to receive our colleagues.

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Update

Time is one of those funny things that slips by and you only really seem to notice it once it has passed by.
It is almost the end of the year again! where has the year gone? Well, we have had a blessed year so far. We have had the privilege of hosting a number of outreach teams. One from Natal South Africa with a number of folks from our home Church. What a blessing! To have folks from "home" coming to be part of the work they sent us out to do.
We also had a team from Brazil, again we had a good time out in the bush with them and met some old friends again Egon & Didi, but we made a bunch of new friends. Jenn had a team of 4 from the USA and they were a massive "pick-me-up" for Jenn.

Our new team members Russell & Nicole who came to fill the doctor's position at the Espungabera hospital arrived. God is GREAT! And they arrived with their 3 small children, Owen, Edith & Akeyla. Then just recently with a big surprise they found out the Nicole was expecting. Bigger surprise with twins. Wow! They are about to return to the USA for the delivery and all sorts of legal things like passports. We are hoping to have them back by March or April 2014.

Dustin & Anne have also joined us on the team and are in the stage of language and culture learning and are in Espungabera right now after spending some time out at Siyabuzana.

Walter and Rosie after almost 4 years on the team and having done an excellent job out at Siyabuzana will be leaving Mozambique for good about the end of March 2014.

Michael who is working at Farming God's Way in the area is doing a good job and is seeing a number of people who are making changes and are trying out what Michael is teaching. We hope that they really reap the benefits of better farming methods. Michael will be leaving the team mid March 2014 to go back to the USA to begin university.

Kaylee who came to help out with the teaching of Russell and Nicole's children will be leaving us mid February 2014 also to begin her studies.

Such a lot of change and transition for us in the near future and a lot of adjustments will need to happen.