Rejoice, Rejoice and Again I say Rejoice

After six months of regularly visiting (average weekly) the district government office, we have at last received the first of a number of documents which we need to officialise our residential compound and school property. This is a great milestone! Please pray that we will find favour and grace with the relevant government offices to complete this process.

We also rejoice that the church leaders of Igreja Evangelica Palavra Viva (The Living Word Evangelical Church) have agreed to meet weekly with us as missionaries for prayer. This is a great milestone also. We as OMS missionaries desire to forge stronger ties and closer partnership with this church group which was founded by OMS over 10 years ago. We believe that as we draw alongside the church we can gain a deeper understanding of the challenges that they face and be better positioned to mentor, train, support and encourage. As we commit to weekly times of prayer to seek God's face we desire to live lives that are more dependent upon Him and interdependent upon each other as we serve as co-labourers. Some planting, others watering while we trust God to bring the increase!

What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe-as the Lord has assigned to each his task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but ONLY God, who makes things grow. The man who plants and the man who waters have ONE purpose and each will be rewarded according to his own labour. For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building 1 Cor 3 v 5-9.

As Mozambicans and missionaries unite prayerfully, may God guide each of us in the tasks that each one must fulfill for the ONE purpose; a spiritual harvest in God's field, the edification of God's building.

Please pray for Abigail and Joshua! They have not been well over the past few days-high temperatures, runny noses, coughs. Pray that they will have a full recovery and that Noah will not contract what they have.

Thank you so much for your prayers!!