Nacala, November 19th, 2010

Dear friends,

I came to the conclusion that the only predicta-ble thing in Africa is that the unpredictable will

always happen! And, obviously, as a characteristic of the unpredictable, it will always happen when we le-ast expect it! Whenever we think that we are in con-trol, we are such fools! It’s just a matter of minutes for something to happen and completely throw us off balance. Then we have two options: quickly run back to our dependency on God or get really stres-sed! I like the first one better!

My trip from Brazil to Mozambique was pretty peaceful, without problems or complications. All my bags arrived well, without hassles, praise God! Thank you to those who prayed for that!

Dora drove from Nacala to Beira to pick me up and, together, we waited for Simo to arrive from her vaca-tions in Romania. As we went up and down the po-tholes on our way back to Inhaminga, my heart was filled with joy for driving again in Africa and being able to share all that has happened in Brazil with two of my dearest friends (Dora and Simo)!

Dora and I spent a few days at Inhaminga, participating at a Women’s Conference that was going on there. There were women from many different villages from at least three pro-vinces of center Mozambique. There were a lot of demon manifestations during the meetin-gs, but praise God we saw each of the women

that came oppressed by demons set free with even their countenance changed during the days they were there. Many were baptized in the Holy Spirit and left that place full of the Word and full of strength.

I was particularly touched by a group of women who left after our last lunch together. They smiled as they started their ten hour walk home. Some of these women had gotten upset earlier when they heard the car couldn’t take them back due to the bad roads. One of them said: “That’s why many of the women don’t come to the Conference!” But when Vina (one of the orga-nizers) asked them: “So who do you think missed the most? The women who stayed behind because they didn’t want to walk, or you who came, but will have to walk back?” they all answered together: “For sure they missed the most! We are going home by foot, but we are FULL! And we will be here next year!” And so they de-parted, smiling and fee-ling blessed!

We celebrated Rod’s birthday

with the rest of the Inha-minga team, on the sho-re of the Zambezi river, in an afternoon to remember! Rod is a very special father to all of us and I deeply admire him for his faith, bold-ness, determination, and a way of getting things done here in Africa that very few people have! We are so blessed to have him as founder and president of this ministry! Oh, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity, while working or having fun!

SUKANEWSAfrika Wa Yesu

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Rod’s birthday with the team

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Futebol, boa hora para conhecer os jovens

BUilding Before the rAin StArtS

Going back home is always good! Meeting friends who stayed

working hard, the teachers who have been growing in their responsibilities and authority; meeting the new stu-dents well involved in their classes and carpentry work; visiting the churches and finding out no one was idle while I was away! All that was very precious!!

The church in Muzuane worked very hard making blocks out of

mud taken from “murimuches” (the name they give to big anthills we can find in several places here). They mo-deled the bricks and let them dry in the hot sun of the dry season and then built the house with a lot of care and hard work. (See pics of the process at the end of this page.) Before the first rains came down, the building was covered with wood, bamboos, plastic and grass, for the relief of teacher Valentim who was overseeing the whole project and was praying hard that the whole work wouldn’t be destroyed by the rain befo-re it was completed. The group’s hope is that next year they’ll be able to put on a zinc roof, but until then this one will protect them during this next rainy se-

ason!

Because of donations people have made, I was able to con-tribute with the material to build this roof! Thank you so much!

Besides the place for gatherin-gs, the Muzuane group is fi-nishing building a house for an old widow whose son comes

to church. She is a Muslim, but the love of God has been shown to her in a very practical way that goes beyond all words!

The church in Rassim had built a meeting place and covered it last

year. But since they finished the work a bit late, the rain destroyed a wall, so this year they rebuilt that wall and also made a new little house beside the chur-ch where whoever comes to help pastor that church can live. (See in the picture above.) The students helped them a lot since the church there has very few men and the women are not able to do all the construction work; though they do help a lot bringing water to make the blocks, cutting and transporting grass and other bamboos for the roof and doing other side works.

Since the church in Nacoto didn’t need to worry about the physical

building, they have been dedicating all their time to strengthening each spiri-tual brick of God’s House, the believers. Dora has been working there a lot, espe-cially with the women. As a result of that, she has seen many good fruits. Sadly we found out at least three of the members of that church are HIV positive, so Dora has been going with them to the hospital quite often to get them started in their

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tests and treatments.

the UnpredictABle

Soon after we arrived in Nacala, Chris and Deborah went with their

kids to Malawi for some doctor’s ap-pointments. And so, the school stayed “under our responsibility”. We are used to having some responsibility and many of the things that need to be done are not new to us. But when the people who carry the main responsibilities are not here ( Jeff and Nicky are also away, in the US) the burden gets a bit heavier. The workers know what they must do, and except for a few extra tasks our lives continue the same... unless something unpredictable happens! And it tends to always happen in those inopportune moments.

This time what happened was that our water pump stopped working the day af-ter the Maas family left! We are around 45 people living on campus; eating, showering, washing clothes and doing all things necessary for living! We con-tacted Chris but there was nothing he could do from far away, besides contac-ting a few friends to come have a look. Two of them came but the work would be very hard and complicated and they thought it was better not to mess with it without the owners around. Praise God one of them is our closest neighbor and he lent us the keys to his water pump and tap, so every other day I could go there with the 3 ton truck and fill up two big containers of water (500 and 1000 liters) and drive back to the school whe-re everyone could fetch water in buckets for their daily needs. The whole process

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took about four hours... when no more unpredicta-ble things happened!

One Sunday night, around 9PM, I went to fetch the truck. I had left two students in charge of turning the pump on and off when the water tank was empty/full and making sure the hose was in the right place. I expected to take about five minutes driving the truck back. What I didn’t expect was to get the truck stuck in the sand on the way! BUT I DID! I stopped the truck in a place I shouldn’t and the heavy load made it sink slowly into the soft sand! To make a long story short, we got it out after much digging, put-ting planks of wood under the tires, my car pulling in front and the students pushing the back! Praise God for brains, hard working hands, and 4 by 4!

When Chris arrived, he spent a whole week just to take the tube out of the borehole. It was a long hard process, but at the end he succeeded, praise God! While I watched them work, with a “pyramid struc-ture” Chris had built to facilitate the pulling process (see picture above) I thought to myself: “To drive the truck, I can! To get stuck and unstuck, I can! To face Nacala, I can! To do THAT, I REALLY CAN’T!” I felt my great limitation, but at the same time I felt so thankful for not being alone in the field! God put us in teams because he knows that alone we would be so less effective! Praise God for well fit teams who work in unity!

next StepS...

After the Maas family arrived, I could breath for a little bit before diving again into an intense

concentrated job. The job was to review the curricu-lum that will be used in both schools next year. The teachers made some changes and adaptations and I reviewed and formatted everything! Whoever has worked in formatting knows what I mean by “looooong hours of intense concentrated work”! But at the end, it was well worth it! To know that it will be easier for the teachers to teach from a

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well organized curriculum makes it worth all the effort put into it!

Finished that task, there is no time to breath deep and rest, before diving into yet other challenges:

• preparing for graduation on November 27th - 35 students will be le-aving with their Bibles (Discipleship) and tools (Votec), to face all the challenges that will come their direction.

• preparing for the Youth Intensive Training in December - 60 young people will come from all over the center and northern provinces of Mozambique, without Bibles (most of them), but ready to be impacted, transformed and equipped to what God has for them.

Because of this Youth Training, we will have a lot of extra expenses. The young people who will be participating don’t have the means to pay for their transportation here and back or for food for the 20 days they will stay with us, so we will be covering those costs. We do that in faith kno-wing it is an eternal investment we are making in their lives and their generation. They will come out of here transformed and ready to trans-form their families, villages and cities. And that will also be eternal!

Some people ask that I inform of any specific needs that I may have. This is one of them. If you would like to contribute specifically for this need, please let me know.

I also want to use this opportunity to thank each one of you from the bottom of my heart, for supporting the work here, through prayer,

encouragement or financial blessings! Thank you so much!

Know that through your contribution you are being a part of everything that God is doing here! We are very thankful for that!

May God continue blessing, keeping and guiding each one of you as you fulfill God’s purposes and plans for your life!

At His service,

With much joy,

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