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A week from tommorow we are getting on our plane for Freetown, Sierra Leone. Brit was asked if she was sad as everyone else is going home and we are just beginning. She realized that she wasnt, she said she can feel its not time to go home yet. I actually wonder if we are heading home :). Its not to much of a streach to think that way. The Lord has been blessing us. For instance living in a house with 8 other people as newlyweds was awesome somehow. We dont try to figure out why too much, we just know that God is making a way. Our hearts are ready though, mine actually aches because I want to be there. Brittany and I will be setting up our first little home. Sorry about not having pictures yet. I forgot the cord in the states and so it has been difficult. We love you all so much and we just ask for your prayers as we start our lives as missionaries.

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We got back on Saturday from our trip to Lachinga in the Niassa province of Mozambique. A lot of driving in the back of a truck. Beautiful terrain, mountanous, spacious, amazing. Nianga (sp?) is one of many rites of passage in Africa. Not all are harmful but Nianga is. We learned of its wickedness from a lawyer's assistant who last year had to take the police with her to get the 6 year old daughter of a missionary back from the witchdoctors... I hugged her after she told the story, as soon as I did she began to cry and tears welled up in my eyes... the little girl was abused and beaten but the scariest part was that after two days with the witchdoctors, the little girl didnt want to leave... The lawyers assistant recounted being beaten herself afterwards by an entire village because she helped the little girl. As we drove past villages we saw flags raised proudly and women dancing in the streets as they waited for the witchdoctors to pick up thier boys who for one month had undergone preparation for Nianga
We brought the gospel in the spirit of I Cor 1:23-24 "but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling-block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God."
The Government has not made any laws against Nianga we learned because culturally there is such a facination about it even among government officials. The hope for this province lies in Jesus.
We stayed at an orphanage run by an Australian family with 6 children of thier own and 10 orphans. The first five of the children had been ones whos grandmother had taken them there for safety just before last years Nianga. They had been with relatives who were going to give them over to the abuse.
The villages we went to had never heard the gospel before. But God is doing an amazing thing. Hundreds and hundreds came to the Lord while we were there. Our translators cousin who was lame began to walk again after not being able to for a year and a half. Four churches were started, one in a village that had been compared to Sodom and Gommorrah. Change is coming and it needs the power of God... we are praying... God can do what only God can do. We left behind a missionary couple and another one arrived to help shortly after we left. "the harvest is plenty but the laborors are few" The problems in Niassa are spritual and those that are there who carry His Holy Spirit will be led by Him unto the freedom from the presence of Nianga. The Yao are beautiful people whos cultures the Lord is redeeming for himself.
We stayed at the orphanage which was like "little house on the prarie" with no electricity and water pulled from the well. After we left we learned that the children at the orphanage began to have dreams and visions of Jesus and the chains breaking off of Niassa. The littlest one described that she saw 'Jesus sitting on his 'big chair'' He was calling her name and the Lord is calling each child in Niassa by name.

We are going after the school on the extended outreach. We are going to a province 12 hours away called Nassia and to a city called Litchinga. What we have heard about the area is really disturbing and the hope that is in Jesus really necessary. When we get there it will be for the last weeks of a six week period where the witch doctors take the 5-6 year old children to the bush and sexually abuse them. Much of northern mozambique has never heard the gospel. The Makuah were previously the largest unreached people group in the world. (Our base is surrounded by Makuah villages) Where we are going one village has been reached with the gospel and they have subsiquently made it illegal for the witchdoctors to continue with this practice. There is such a need for the love of Jesus and a need for a display of his power in the Spirit of Isaiah 61 "to set free the captives". It is going to be a tough two weeks. Pray for the safety and unity for our team, we have such awesome people we are going with. Pray that the people of the Nassia province will know Jesus "Agora!"
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The Holy Given School is coming to a close and it has been a really amazing opportunity. Thank you all of you who helped support us in going. I have learned a lot about two-thirds world culture in Africa. For instance if someone asks you for your stuff sometimes they just want you to joke with them because they want to be your friend. In class we have learned the theology of missions and all about the kingdome, it has been a real blessing to have this time here before we go to Sierra Leone. God knows what he is doing without Him we are totally unprepared. With Him we see time and time again that we have everything, absolutly everything we need.
We have had amazing miracles during some of the outreaches around the Cabo Delgado province. The mute have heard, the deaf have spoken, the lame have walked. Jesus is on the move. We have all recieve so much impartation of the heart of missions, of the heart of the Father, just by being here and watching how things are done. Hiedi and Rolland had a question and answer time today. It is really incredible to hear them say "We were just this mom and pop operation" and really see that that is what God has used... humility and an absolute belief in the death and ressurection of Jesus Christ.