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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)! […]

Nadia shows some of the women how to use the MP3 recorder after the Bible lesson for the day was done. The MP3 recorders proof to be a very helpful tool in bringing the Word of God to the Mwinika people for the first time as it give people the opportunity to listen to the […]

One Monday afternoon when we returned from the Bible teaching, we found a little girl and her aunt waiting for us. Maria, the little girl, fell from a tree and cut her tongue with her teeth. She was a mess of blood and tears. I didn’t think that I could deal with this emergency and […]

“On-the-other-side-of-nowhere” 2011 —  The Year the Mwinika people hear the Word of God for the First Time It is Saturday and as I woke up early morning, praying and thanking the Lord about the new day (in which His mercies are always new!), I wondered what the He will bring about today. Saturdays is our […]

On this picture: Some of the people stayed after the meeting. They could not get enough! Here Francois is explaining about the New Testament Greek. On the board is written in Greek and in eMwinika: God (Theos/Muluku) We saw the Lord move in a wondrous why today! May this be the first of many such […]