Life in Moz

Instead of writing a lot, I'll post some pictures that will tell the story.

In September I went with a church partner team to a village for a week. One of the things they do is meet with a group of women for Bible studies. These women love to sing and dance. Here they are doing a circle dance. This short clip of Sunday morning singing at a church I visited once will give you a taste of their beautiful singing and dancing.

After the singing and dancing they sit on reed mats on the floor. I cannot sit like this but they do it for long periods of time.

When we walked in the village the kids were like magnets, running to play with the visitors. Scott, pictured here, loved to play, even making angels in the sand.

This is one of the cooks, Odete, in the kitchen. What they deliver from this simple kitchen, cooking over charcoal and wood is yummy!

These three amazing women, Imeldina, Angelica and Isabel work in the village full time. Imeldina and Angelica work with kids' clubs and Isabel works with discipleship groups. Angelica and Isabel leave their families from Monday to Friday to minister in Chaimite.


I also had a great getting to know Amy and Jenn, the only women on this team. As you can see, they enjoy life and we had good times together.

Back on the home front we did some home improvement projects. If you know us, you know we've done plenty of that in our lives. The back porch of this house was turned into a small kitchen but still had the top of one wall with chicken wire which was letting in lots of mosquitoes and other bugs. We decided to sew a tarp on to the wire. So Steve made a needle out of wire and found some string and we were in business. The only problem was that it was 10 ft off the floor in the kitchen and much higher on the other side! I stepped on the top rung of a high ladder and lifted my hands way up to sew the top. Steve was on the other side and ended up sitting on top of the door. We were both glad to be done about an hour later.

We are in the planning stages of building some cupboards, counters and moving the sink to the room that was originally the kitchen but then turned into a bedroom. We'll keep you posted.

This past weekend we had a great time at an AP Seminar. Many people were deeply touched by God and it was exciting to be part of the process. Saturday the temperature was 109 F and wouldn't you know, the power was out most of the day. Thankfully a generator kept the fans and the video going and it was cooler inside than out which was like an oven. God's grace is sufficient for every situation.