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This is a picture of Brittany in our room. It is a really wonderful room and we are so grateful for it.

This is the way the rest of the house looks now we are going to add an upstairs and the plan is to house 15 or so orphans.

This is Andrew putting up a door he made on one of the bathrooms today. He made the door himself and he used 120 peices of wood (I counted :))

This is where Andrew and Angella and thier baby live. The inside is lined with cardboard. We are about to finish another room in the house and then they will move in. (We were so grateful they put us first and served us by letting us move in first)













This is Brittany with one of the peanut ladies we sat with them today and met an orphan kid named Ahmado(standing). Brit stops and buys peanuts and talks to them everyday.


Please continue to pray for us. It is really overwhelming to see all the need here, but in Jesus we are not overwhelmed. We long to get the orphanage started and to continue to learn to love and minister His love to the people here. We are glad we are here and feel that the Lord has put us right were we fit. We have become such good friends with Andrew and Angella (the pastor and his wife) it is real fellowship with a real connection at the heart. God is watching us and taking care of us at every move. Our trip here was filled with setbacks but God did miracles and now we are in our new home. We are loved here and we are protected and safe from harm. We love you and miss you all.
Isaac and Brittany

Some of you may have read my post in June about Minito the boy who the Lord directed me to. In the ensuing months I had to deal with the cultural and personal issues surrounding being friends with an 11 year old in Mozambique. First of all most of the children from the village love to come to the Iris base because the westerners play with them and sometimes give them things (shirts, chocolate, etc) Actually they have become proficient at minipulating the new visitor into giving them stuff. They sell the clothes often and buy cookies or whatever else they want. I learned that since I had shown special attention to Minito that there were extra expectaions. Minito would not settle with being treated the same as everyone else and would walk off in a huff if I gave somthing to someone else. Isaac became a vending machine. The other thing is that the majority of Mozambiquan parents dont show a lot of affection/attention to their children. 'Play' was lost during Portugese rule and oppression of the Makuah people. The children arent just there for stuff (although that is the initial reason) they stay and grow attached because of love. I had to learn to ignore the games/minipulations and just find ways to have fun, to joke, to play. I saw the fruit. Under the tent one day we were all worshiping and the Spirit of God came in power, everbody was just getting wrecked. Minito came in and was following me around. I decided to do an experiment. I thought 'Minito knows Jesus and so the Holy Spirit lives inside of him...Im gonna have him pray for people' As we went around praying for people (Id direct him to put his hands on someones shoulder for example) People started falling over and Minito became a praying machine. He was so excited that God was using him to touch people! Another time that was really touching was when I learned that he was not going to school when I confronted him he just began to cry. He cried and cried and after that he almost always went to school. We became really good friends. It showed me that even when people just want to use you, when you love them it overwhelms everything else. Minito walked to the airport(2 miles) the day we were leaving just to say goodby. This time we both cried and I knew that God had put us together to teach us both how to love.

Waiting 12 hours until our overnight flight into Freetown. Ive been reading Matthew 9 where Jesus is eating in the house of a tax collector nammed Matthew. The pharisees wanted to know why Jesus ate with the tax collectors and 'sinners'. I think, and the scripture goes on to point-out, that it was because in the heart of Jesus is mercy.
Jason Upton has a song on his new album about Martin Luther King Jr. Jason Upton prays at the end and askes the Lord for mercy because we 'kill all the beautiful people... we cant deal with beautiful people.' He prays for the peacemakers to be revealed.
Jesus was a beautiful person, the most beautiful person. To sit and eat with someone at that time was to be identified with them. To be identified with sinners blew the religeous peoples' minds. This story is a window into the beauty of the heart of Jesus and the heart that he wants us to invest in.(Rev 3:18) Humility for the purpose of serviice. Not just any humility, this humility comes with a cost because to be a 'beautiful person' goes in the face of the worlds system. Actually it spits in the face of the worlds system (...our weapons are mighty) Because when a standard of love is raised up which makes the comfortable uncomfortable and they react. To be humble in love is a transparent place because it is 'Christ through you the hope of glory'. So as we go to Freetown we pray we can bring transparency, mercy, and love to dine with those that the Lord puts before us! To bring peace and help to turn the world right side up. In Jesus mighty name, Amen!