We have Internet today! We're back in Nampula - the conference is over and was a great success. We took a Men for Missions Team to the Mocuba area and got them back safely and they are now in Maputo and were a great blessing to us and the work here. The drive from Nampula to Mocuba was nearly six hours and from Mocuba we went deep into the nearby country side to visit both training centers and churches. The accommodations were a bit on the primitive side but the team were great sports and we certainly sent them home with lots of stories. In one day alone, we visited with five rural churches, two training centers, and came back with two live chickens - but that is a story for another time.
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e had 100% attendence at the conference for which we are thankful and a great time of teaching, sharing, worshipping and food. A team from the US joined us at the end of the conference, plus Mike Thiessen, our seminary director from Maputo.
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e had 100% attendence at the conference for which we are thankful and a great time of teaching, sharing, worshipping and food. A team from the US joined us at the end of the conference, plus Mike Thiessen, our seminary director from Maputo. On the journey, so far, I have had one flat on my car, which we fixed (a bolt) and the car we rented for the team (with driver!) had another flat (a large drill bit!) but our in-field repairs (plug the tire on the side of the road) worked!
Great things are happening in the area around Mocuba and I look forward to sharing more with you when we get back. There are lots of stories to tell.
Great things are happening in the area around Mocuba and I look forward to sharing more with you when we get back. There are lots of stories to tell.
One of the highlights of the Mocuba trip was being a part of licensing Antonio as a Pastor. God has used Antonio to start over 50 churches in rural Mozambique this past year and he truly has a gift for administration and encouraging others. His church trainers and church planters are sharing the Gospel with great enthusiasm and the work is expanding rapidly as many accept Christ. In this photograph, we are standing with Pastor Antonio near his church. It was a packed service and the people enthusiastically affirmed this action by our Mozambican denomination, Evangelical Church of the Living Word. This licensing authorizes Antonio to perform weddings and funerals, along 
with the numerous other responsibilities of a church Pastor and leader.
Ann was doing the "Dukes of Hazard" entry into the car (through the window) because on one road, which was really a path, we had a close encounter with a tree stump that did a number on the front panel of our truck. We pounded it out here at the conference center and so the door opens now although it pops like crazy! The stump was deep in some grass and was quite a surprise and we are thankful it was only cosmetic damage.
The first picture is of our conference attendees on the last day of the conference.
We will start back to Maputo soon. We were going to spend a couple of days with some dear friends of ours here in Nampula with to rest up from this incredible time the last weeks, but one of their sons contracted a severe case of Malaria and was just life-flighted to South Africa. His name is Ian and please pray for him - he has been in a coma and was beginning to rally this morning and we are praying that there was no damage to his brain from this diabolical disease. This is heavy on our hearts for these dear missionary friends of ours. The father, Ken, spoke at our conference last week.
The journey back should start Saturday - pray for safe travel for us.
Blessings to you!
Dave & Ann
with the numerous other responsibilities of a church Pastor and leader.Ann was doing the "Dukes of Hazard" entry into the car (through the window) because on one road, which was really a path, we had a close encounter with a tree stump that did a number on the front panel of our truck. We pounded it out here at the conference center and so the door opens now although it pops like crazy! The stump was deep in some grass and was quite a surprise and we are thankful it was only cosmetic damage.
The first picture is of our conference attendees on the last day of the conference.
We will start back to Maputo soon. We were going to spend a couple of days with some dear friends of ours here in Nampula with to rest up from this incredible time the last weeks, but one of their sons contracted a severe case of Malaria and was just life-flighted to South Africa. His name is Ian and please pray for him - he has been in a coma and was beginning to rally this morning and we are praying that there was no damage to his brain from this diabolical disease. This is heavy on our hearts for these dear missionary friends of ours. The father, Ken, spoke at our conference last week.
The journey back should start Saturday - pray for safe travel for us.
Blessings to you!
Dave & Ann
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