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What a day! We had our Literacy certificate ceremony on Friday June 17, a day after our last evaluations. Originally we did not plan to have the ceremony until this week… However two days before, we heard that the administrator of our region will be visiting our community and what better opportunity than to have […]

Written last week (June 13), but due to problems with our internet connection, this is going out late! See the update on the certificate ceremony coming soon… This is the last week of this round of literacy classes! We thank the Lord for each student and teacher helper who came and learned to read and […]

This type of ceremony represents one of the getting-rid-of one of the biggest evil spirits in the Mwinika world. They believe that a spirit called-“shetani” (that is white and comes from the sea) has caused a sickness and he and his other evil spirits must be chased away. The witchdoctor or sick person has a […]

Written last week (12 June), but have not been able to send email for the last 10 days… Week 15 Bible teaching Pray for Francois and Phil as they start a new week teaching Bible lessons. Francois is teaching lessons 55 and 56 (of 70) today about the paralyzed man who’s friends lowered him through […]

Children’s Day is the biggest National Holiday in our community, however it is also the free-to-party and free-to-get drunk day for most adults. At the school close to our house a “video” club was hastily put up and the music and videos blaring from the huge speakers were with us through the day and that […]

Life has been crazy-busy these last two weeks as we near the end of the teaching (only 4 weeks left!) as well as our time for home assignment (end of July). We also had the “Dia das Crianças” (Children’s Day) last week. This is the biggest national holiday for the Mwinika. (More in a separate […]

Five years ago, while we were living right here on sight in tents while building our mud and stick house, Chabane was one of our most enthusiastic helpers. A church group that came to help us with the building, named him “Swart Hand” (meaning Black Hand in Afrikaans), since his hands often were black from […]

The follow-up meeting with all the leaders from our local community has been just as encouraging as the first… (See: blogs.ethnos360.org/francois-hattingh/We understand) Our closest neighbour and also the guys who is standing in for us (“championing”) in the community Americo, has been very quiet during the first meeting. (He is the guy on the right […]

Even with Francois on a survey trip for the next 10 days, his helpers are still working on editing and typing Bible lessons. Please continue to pray for Salimo (typing on the picture), Gerimani (standing under the tree) and Imamo Juuma (our local religious leader, not in the picture) who are learning the Truth while […]

While it is turning into spring in the Northern Hemisphere, we are preparing for a seemingly colder than usual winter. The temperatures in Mozambique never go below 10-15 degrees C, but for us, who are used to the hot days of the 5 month summer, it is cold when its below 20 degrees (50 F)! […]