Author: Nadia Hattingh

Francois is back home after a flight, 14 hours on an African bus and 7 more hours on the back of an open truck! The last trip was quite interesting as the further they went, the more people were added to the “load” until his legs was quite numb from being packed like a regular […]

We are mid-way in our first week of the fourth Literacy class we present to teach the Mwinika to read and write their own language! The students are very motivated and the candidate teachers are doing even better than expected! The group of students are all able to read and write some Portuguese, so the […]

We started with our first ever intensive Literacy teacher’s training course this week! Our aim is to have Mwinika teachers trained and ready to do the literacy classes in their community. Up till now, we have been training our teachers – those that have done the course already – as we were teaching the Literacy […]

Early morning traffic in the city. The road is so bad on this particular place, that there are no lanes: each driver simply goes where there are the least holes! 🙂 Late afternoon in the city centre. It is images like this that makes us grateful again for living in the bush where we have […]

In just three weeks the landscape was transformed. It is incredible dusty and dry and the landscape on our way back to our village was often brown and black (from veldt burns). The temperatures are also way higher than normal for October. People are suffering. We drove back with our partner, Phil, as well as […]

It was a real privilege and joy to listen to leaders of our mission from all over the world over the last few weeks. During the Africa Leadership Form we could hear about the direction the Lord is directing our mission. We are learning to see the Church, no matter how immature or weak, not […]

Although I can’t accompany Francois to all the Mwinika believers’ meetings, I try to visit one of the groups each week. While sitting there, looking and listening, I could not help tears of joy when Francois read John 3:16 in eMwinika to these believers… For God so loved the world… Can there be anything better […]

During a believers’ meeting Francois used a hose-pipe to explain servant hood: Just like water is channelled through a hose-pipe, God channels His care and love through believers to others around them. Just like a hose-pipe has only one opening but can water a big area, one believer can do more when he/she is being […]