Bringard de football...

That mean's let's play football (soccer), I think.

Julie and Micah,

It is official, I am out of shape. I just played “football” with the students here. They play barefoot and in sand. After the first five minutes I was asking, “How do you say, OXYGEN or GATORADE or POWERADE or I THINK I AM HAVING A HEART ATTACK. It was fun. I left the game after the first fifteen minutes because I needed to get my laundry. The trip has been very good thus far.

Today in class we taught a drama that was written last night and a drama that was rewritten last night. I was supposed to teach about Jesus washing the disciples’ feet today. That changed slightly when the drama changed. I rewrote my devotion or lesson and all was fine until we got to class. The drama changed. So my lesson had to change.

About 5 minutes before the other class we learned that no one had been assigned to teach it. So I was blessed with the opportunity to teach on what I thought was the lost parables. I decided to teach on the lost coin. We get to class and I learn we are actually just doing a drama on the lost son. Oops. So I prayed for the Spirit to speak through me and then started jotting short hand notes. I knew I had until the drama was over. It went well.

The men here are really picking up on the drama well. They will be able to use it to show the people in Christ’s Church down here. I got choked up Tuesday after the drama. We reinacted the feeding of the 5000. Don, the missionary, was talking to the students after the drama and lesson and said, “Can’t you just see God now? He is looking down from Heaven with His angels and saying look, they are remembering.” I don’t know why but that just choked me up. He loves these people and what a great mission this is. He is training men who are in turn going out and reaching people. He could come to Mozambique and start a Church, reaching a few hundred people. His mission, working with the Church leaders, reaches 1000s of people in some very remote parts of Africa. The students come from all over, currently there are 25 students from 6 provinces in Mozambique, which is twice as long as California. The men do not have cars so they walk to the school to get here. They stay for 8 months, away from their families. Some of these guys have 7 children. One student has 11. They range from 20 years old to 62 or 63.

They have taught us a lot. Funny how that works. A lot of times we as Americans just want to help by giving money to help or “cure” a problem. That is not what they want, and if it is that is not what they have asked for. They asked us to pray for more missionaries to come to Mozambique and they asked us to pray for more leaders in their church.

God is not done with us yet on this trip. I love Africa, but I can say I don’t think I am “called” to be here full time. This is definitely a place where I would love to come and minister on occasion. I fully agree with and support Good News for Africa mission that Don Hulsey and his wife, Aleta, are a part of. He told me he was here 10 years before the first group of short term missionaries came over. He has been here a total of 13 years, 2 in Zambia and 11 in Mozambique.

I know Rhonna went to “visit” a school here. Guess what, they have a position open. Funny how God works or places things on our hearts. There is God’s will and there is our will. We are all learning how to judge the two.

They days go slow and the nights are lonely without you here. I miss the sound of your voice. I miss the phone call at 5:20 saying what time am I coming home today. I miss the dozen or so text messages during the day just to say you love me. I miss Micah crying in the middle of the night because he doesn’t know where he is or because he has gotten out of bed and just wants us to tuck him back in. I miss taking the dogs out in the middle of the night. Okay, it’s 8:30 and you and Micah just got to school so I am going to let you go…maybe I will try to send you a text message.

Oh and one more thing, pray for us. We, as a group, have been around each other for a week now. Now is a time that can make or break this team. Pray for unity and peace.

all about Christ,
David