Each week there were 7 or 8 older women from the barrio (section of town), Macharotte that would walk to the Dondo church. It is a good 2 mile hike one way, I know, I have done it unprepared and totally pooped when I got home. But these same women would walk to church every Sunday because they wanted to hear the word of God and truth be spoken. They wanted to fellowship with other believers, they wanted to dance and sing and worship the King together.
Noemia is a woman whose greatest fault is her compassion. She just cares about everyone. Every woman, man and child that God places before her. It was hard for her to see these women walk to church each week and sometimes mid-week so she began a bible study with these 7 or 8 precious women under a tree with the prayer that one day a church would be built for them. That was a year ago. And today the building stands as is for now, mud, bamboo and one day a cement floor inside with a clean water well too!
Also that group of women that started out as 7 or 8 older women is now close to 20-25 women of all ages and 60 children hearing the word of God two times a week at this church. Well, we are still outside under the tree but we are close to moving in.
Each time I have come to the church for bible study the water well has a continual line of people getting clean water. This well is the only water well in the area of the church and it has been a tremendous blessing. For every hour that can be removed from getting water, another hour is added to do other chores and responsibilities. My prayer is that this time will be loving their neighbor, their children and Jesus. People come to get their drinking water and end up hearing about the living water.
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| Newly built church in Macharotte with a new "clean water" well too!! |
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| This woman told me her house fell down last Sunday after the heavy rains. Now she lives with a friend. She needs a new house for herself and her orphaned granddaughter. |
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| These are 3 of the first 7 or 8 |
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| This is only part of the group today, Praise the Lord! May His kingdom expand! |
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen.
For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
Obedience,
kkk
Good morning how are you?
ReplyDeleteMy name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately it’s impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this I would ask you one small favour:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Mozambique? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Mozambique in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and a original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Calle Valencia, 39
28903 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com, where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely
Go, Jesus! Sim, Jesus!
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