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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.