Just makes me long for the bush

Nambwa, Namibia.

Such a nice place! 

what's up?

Jenn, Michael and Kaylee this past weekend went to Beira to drop Kaylee off at the airport. She has finished up her time with us a little earlier than expected. Russell and Nicole went back to the USA for the birth of their twin boys. Kaylee who was helping with the homeschooling of their first 3 children. found herself helping Dawn and I with filing and office organisation before leaving for the USA. Well she gets to spend Christmas with her family. Please pray for her as she seeks the Lord's face in future studies in preparation for a life in missions.

Catch-up time

As ministries slow down because of the planting season, we begin to reel in the backlog of administration type stuff. A whole bunch of emails in preparation for next year.  

YAY! & BOO

What a silly title!
Well it's a really big YAY! for Jinx This past week while we were in Chimoio I picked up my long DIRE (work permit). It is called a permanent but it is for FIVE years now instead of having to renew it every year at almost US$700,00 per person. So the next renewal is in 2018.

The really BIG BOO! is that Dawn's although applied for at the same time was not yet available. Please pray that it arrives soon as a small piece of paper with extension stamps on the back is not ideal.

Recent Rumblings in Mozambique

Media blocks seem to be the order of the day in recent weeks in Moz. However the modern social media like facebook and twitter and so on have got a fair amount of news out there. The attacks at a few of the "hot spots" on some of the main roads seem to be on going. We are all fine and we are safe but travel in certain parts of the country is just not an option and is also a prayer request. municipal elections were held on the 20th Nov. Rumors of fixing and underhandedness are all over and objections to results are being raised.

Please pray that the peace will return and real democracy will become the order of the day.

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.

Check out the INFO on the right

We have updated some information  on the right in the INFO block. Please take a look and join with us as we seek to serve Jesus more effectively.