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The last months had flown by with an incredible speed.  At times it literally feels as if we are just holding on by the skin of our teeth!  It also seems that many of you did not receive our last email newsletter…  So here follows a short summary of our year: • In January a […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

It still amazes us how a small scrape can turn into something huge (literally) here in the bush! Francois got a nick on his thump while working to fix our vehicle… before he knew it, it was infected and he had pain all the way up his arm. We are treating the wound now with […]

This month old baby’s mother developed sever mastitis and by the time she arrived here on Sunday afternoon, she started to show the first signs of malnutrition. Her mom was trying to feed her a weak solution of water and cassava root (dried and pounded to a flour). Some cassava has small amount of arsenic […]

The rest of the first half of the 2000 or so km back home went pretty much without any incident. We are still amazed about the progress and growth in this country – especially in the South. As we drove further north, things become more and more rural and toilet facilities for example deteriorated with […]