The Long Day

June 2006, 1

Boa Noite. As I write this I am sitting on my bed in my room, with the days events replaying in my head. Today has been a long day and also very tiring. It started with meetings at 7.30am, then it was off to teach English at 11am for an hour and then a quick lunch and back to meetings and also helping the team prepare to go to Nampula. (Next week we have a conference in the province of Nampula. The conferences are large; we are expecting well over 200 Iris Churches to come as well others, roughly we are expecting over 3000 people. We feed and water those that attend and many walk for hours or even a day to come to the conference). Then it was administration and then at 5pm it was Portuguese class and then a group was off to outreach. Please pray for the conference, that preparation for the conference goes smoothly, that people travelling to the conference will be safe, and that God will impact people’s lives! That those attend will be encouraged and feel the Father’s embrace – but more importantly will be loved into the kingdom of God and lost in His presence forever.


Felito and I would love to announce with much joy & excitement that we are ENGAGED!!!!
We are both so excited and can’t wait to start our lives together, to see our dreams unfold and walk the path that God has put us on! The wedding will in early November in Maputo with a blessing ceremony in NZ in February.

The Holy Given Missions /Culture Exchange School officially started. It was a joy to meet all the students. Please pray for these students, that God will protect them, invade them, and melt their hearts for the beautiful people here and that He would totally transform their lives with His love, His word and His spirit.

We are also very excited, as the weekend outreaches will be starting next weekend. This is one of my favourite areas to serve in. Every Friday evening two teams of 10 student pastors and 10 culture exchange students, a driver, sound system person and national leader will head out into bush, bush. They will sit in the back of a cameo for up to 6 hours on a bumpy road & arrive in a village and set-up camp. The students will sleep in tents, not bathe, use a latrine and be with the people of the village. During the day they will walk around the village and sit and talk with people and in the evenings there will be the Jesus Film, preaching, testimonies and much time for ministry. Then Sunday comes and they either plant a church or the existing church has grown. It’s exciting making new friends, learning & experiencing the language & culture and seeing lives totally impacted by the power and love of Jesus Christ. Please pray for the protection of the teams that go out and also that the love of God will be with them wherever they go!

We have a new chief (leader) of the kitchen. His name is Pedro (Peter) and is originally from Maputo. This guy is unusually tall, organised and very softly spoken, but this guy can cook. He is a trained chef and also used to teach in secondary schools. The proof, well it’s the fact that he has to cook for up to 700 people per day and up to 1500 on Sundays and also he can cook Matapa. Matapa is a simple food – it’s a leaf, similar to that of spinach. Matapa is very good for you, but if you don’t cook it right, it’s nasty. I have learnt that in the south, the matapa leaf is certain type of leaf, but here in the north, its any leaf – and Pedro has been getting the certain type of leaf and then adding a peanut sauce with a bit of that and a bit of this and its amazing. Usually it’s been rather oily and crunchy, but when missionary’s and toddlers go for seconds – the proof is in the pudding. Please keep Pedro in your prayers; he has a large job to do and also to keep many people happy. He is such a blessing to have here.

Thank you all so much for all your prayers and support. It is greatly appreciated. God Bless you all so very mightily. May you know Jesus more and more, as he gently calls you into Himself.

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