Author: Nadia Hattingh

Images of our first month back #2

Images of our first month back #2

Our daily staple. Heidi learns how to bake bread from scratch! Daily visitors: people are streaming in get their wounds treated and bandaged. The first weeks were the worst: many had huge tropical sores again (like in the beginning), but things are slowing down a bit now. Hopefully soon we will just see “fresh” wounds […]
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Images of our first month back #1

Images of our first month back #1

The image that welcomed us back: dirt road to our house. Back home! Moving in. Mwinika neighbours taking an impromptu break while helping us to move in. Guess what’s on the screen? A car of course! Cars: the universal “men” language of all ages! 🙂 Food for Africa! We are so grateful to the two […]
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Sunday morning

Sunday morning

It is Sunday morning and usually we have a time of worship together as a family since the baby church here is coming together at different times during the week – almost like home churches – and do not have a specific worship day (yet). However, today we have had a constant stream of people, […]
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Work permit and Potjiekos

Work permit and Potjiekos

Thank you so much for your prayers for Francois’s work permit (dire)! Unfortunately we are still waiting for confirmation from the county’s capitol… Francois keeps in contact with the office in our provinces capital to keep tabs on the progress. We ask therefore that you continue to pray that Francois’s work permit will be sorted […]
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The face of hunger

The face of hunger

How does one respond when children like these arrive at your doorstep? They are dying… of hunger. The baby’s mother is already pregnant again. She is one of many wives and her husband cannot provide for them. They have nothing in their gardens but cassava (a root that has very little nutritious value).     […]
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His heart has turned!

His heart has turned!

I heard a beautiful witness the other day from a Mwinika friend about her husband. Her husband has been one of the first guys we got to know better after arriving here years ago. He was pretty wild at that time – he had 22 wives (married and divorced) by the time we arrived! He […]
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Waldo’s malaria much better!

Waldo’s malaria much better!

Day 2 Thank you so much for praying for Waldo! He managed to keep his meds down, although we were still up half the night with the little guy. This morning his fever is down and he looks much better! Thank you, Lord! Waldo will continue his malaria treatment for the next two days. Malaria […]
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Malaria

Malaria

Waldo (our youngest son) is suddenly very sick with typical malaria symptoms. He has not been able yet to keep the medicine down and is therefore still untreated. If this continues, we will have to take him to a hospital in the capitol of a neighbouring province (8 hours drive away) where he can receive […]
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Dying neighbours need your prayers

Dying neighbours need your prayers

Francois left this morning (before Waldo fell ill) with a car full of Mwinika neighbours and friends – all of them HIV/Aids positive. He took them to the closest village for tests and hopefully treatment. One man Eliasa, MayeApete’s son, is very sick and on the brink of dying. He was so weak this morning […]
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Blessings of the Bike

Blessings of the Bike

What a huge blessing is the quad bike we received from George Bergsig (one of our supporting churches)! For the first time since we arrived here in 2005, Nadia is able to visit Mwinika friends far and wide despite her physical limitations. She is even able to give the sick and old lifts! The bike […]
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