To Mozambique

Broken down on the road and need a spare part?

Grandma (Pat) along with 3 others goes to a herbal medicine health workshop for 1 week.

Look at the beautiful grasshopper Grandma (Pat) caught!

A man most likely sick with untreated diabetes is helped to go back home. He was instructed on changing the diet to avoid the 99% starch/sugar diet he normally eats to add beans and other things.

The sick man's humble home.

Wow! I don't remember seeing such a large cameleon. This one is huge. When I picked him up behind his head on his neck he kept hissing at me. Beautiful and awesome creation of God

We actually had a little get-away on the Indian Ocean. Wow the water is an crystal clear blue when the sun is all the way up.

We hired a fisherman with a sailboat to take us to a near island to hunt for shells

Esther found a star fish. We left it for the next person to enjoy

Here's a live little star fish.

We had some good time with fellow missionaries - Shawn and Sara Gardner - who a year ago had to leave because their son caught a sickness which required him to be life-flighted to South Africa where he almost died. He hasn't recovered full mental capabilities. The Gardners are now working for 1 or two more years from South Africa to assists some community driven projects in Mozambique.

The Gardners touched many lives here.

Where do you get water? These are drawing water from a well with buckets.

These are getting water from a faucet.

Our city of 500,000 plus has water fed from a reservior. But now a couple pumps are burned out and we don't get water all through the day.

Things aren't being kept up.

With three families on this property we must add an underground reserve tank for water and also pump it up to a tower. It's taking forever to build because of part availability, etc.

Elijah and two other Mk's dig a hole for a 10,000 liter tank (2500+ gallons).

There is the 10 feet high tank for 2500+ gallons of water

Elijah and Riley clean it out inside.

We head for a trip back to a Mozambican friends home. It's close to the famed Mount Namuli, where the Makua people originated. There is much folklore and superstition about this mountain.

A school house near where is family lives in the mountains.

In his home town.... Cooked RATS for sale...

Sunday we attend a local church of Christ.

for 545 people in attendance at the church building that morning, notice the transportation of the most able...

We finally head out to see if we can reach Mount Namuli (2400+ meters high).

Here is the famed Mt. Namuli in the distance.

We drive up the mountain side and the weather turns cool. We traverse through deserted Tea Plantations.

We come to a few villages way back in the mountains. People often even run from us because since the war 15 years ago, the apprearance of strangers is often a bad thing.

Down in the mass of people we notice that many many men are drunk this Sunday afternoon. Although this district is highly religious - (Catholic, Baptist, Church of Christ, Assembly of God...) - in all these churches most are following an empty religion of works and bound by many fears and superstitions.

We didn't reach Mt Namuli because our guides lied that they knew the various road to take to get there even tough they didn't know. But God knows and we enjoy the site.

The best hotel in town has quite a kitchen in which to cook our fried eggs .

What do you think about the Hotel Restaurant kitchen?

We finally say good-bye to family again.

Looks like it is universal for kids to make sand pies!

Grandma (Pat) diagnoses 2 women with anemia due to diet and possibly worms and gives them advice on who to get a better diet of green leafy things grown in the area and plants to possibly kill some worms they might have. Careful instructions are left. The women are grateful.

Birthday boy! Yep, 45 years old on September 6th

And the Lord has blessed us to be together 23 years!