Danie takes care of it . . . .

We always knew that we would not be able to plan and execute this trip without a good deal of help from someone who knows their way around Mozambique. We are very fortunate that Pastor Danie Murray, who is a mission enabler for the South African Reformed Church, has agreed to be our planner / driver / contact maker / translator and protector during this trip. 

 

Danie will meet us at Lilongwe airport and stay with us throughout the entire two week journey. His long standing knowledge of local customs, needs and people is helping us make all the right connections. As a result we don't worry about transport because he is driving, don't think where we get our food because he has already planned this, don't lose sleep over where we might sleep because everything is arranged and don't do any cold-calling on local pastors and congregations because he has already contacted them for us. And so we look forward to meeting old friends and new over this two week period with Danie being our guide and guardian angel.

 

Today we received the final itinerary from Danie and it is becoming clear that we will be very busy. We will be spending most of our time in Mocuba and Tete and we will do excursions from these bases. You (the readers) will all soon be able to read about names and places like: Milange, Eksteen, Mocuba, Teixeira, Magodane, Anamed, Bernadette, Ualize, Mussi, Espanhor, Vila Ulongue and others.

 

We hope to renew old friendships, see how their work is progressing and help them in any way we can. In some places our help will be of physical nature (Bernadette has already mentioned that she has lots of jobs that need doing before she closes the orphanage for Christmas), in other places we will be teaching or preaching and in others we will be listening to their concerns and project needs. We also hope to make new friends in the places where we visit new projects and congregations. All of this will make our experience very intense and very real. I am beginning to see this journey as a transformational experience for our team as we are hosted by Pastor Danie and guided by our Lord.

 

Dreaming of Mozambique - but signing off for today.