Today is my last full day here in Pemba. Tomorrow I leave for Jo’burg, South Africa. My camera is broken again 
and I’m leaving this MacBook here in Africa 
as they are hard to come by, so I probably won’t write again before I get to the States.
I’ll be in South Africa for a few days resting and seeking God. See you soon- California on September 1st.
Here’s some writing from Nasimo about the significance of prayer for Pemba. He’s currently in an english class so this is good practice for him!
In the City of Pemba, my town where I live, there is a big church called Iris. At Iris there is a Bible School and a Missions School where people come from different countries and provinces from all over the world. Iris Church is located by the third largest natural bay in the world. This bay is the most beautiful in all of Mozambique and there are big beaches where people can visit. On Sunday, the beaches are full of many many people but on other days it is almost silent because people just take books or the bible and read and have time with God. The water on these beaches is very clear. There is different restaurants and hotels. The best hotel in Pemba is the Pemba Beach Hotel, the second one is Nautilus.
When you walk on the beach you find people from different countries speaking many different languages. Sometimes when missionaries are here they go to the beach to pray, especially early in the morning like five o’clock. And so Pemba has different places to pray; Outreaches, in the villages and more. Many times when people return from outreach they tell good stories about many miracles. The miracles come from the love of God that is good. It makes me happy with my time. The Iris church is between town and the countryside. God answers prayers, when people pray inside of the church, missionaries, people, pastors, the prayers spread all over Pemba because Iris is in the center.
Everyone here in Pemba knows the name Mama Aida, even if they’ve never met her they know her name because the Holy Spirit takes the name and puts it in all the towns. So many people want to know her so they come and find Jesus in the church. Jesus answers prayers.
There used to be many people who were always begging for everything all the time but now it is changing. Instead of begging many people are praying because they know that God answers prayers. God can even change people. I know someone, his name is Carimo, and he used to always cause trouble. One missionary came here to show him the love of Jesus and in one month he began to change. Now if he is having problems he will listen to you instead of picking up rocks. Everything works good when you show the love of Jesus.
Remember last year when I asked you to pray for Mozambique and Africa? God is answering your prayers! Me to, I pray for you all and God answers my prayers- even if someone doesn’t love Jesus. Some people don’t love Jesus but Jesus loves them. Sometimes it is difficult for people to know him. If Jesus is your Father, it is good if you are helping Him with your prayers. When someone gives you something and you don’t say “thank you,” what will he think? It’s something like that, if Jesus gives us love and we don’t give others love it’s like we aren’t saying thank you. If we want to say thank you we need to share his love with another person. Now is your time to share love with people in the whole world because this is the only time you have. When your body dies it is final.
This is great!! He did an awesome Job!!
Nasimo, I love when you write every time. Deus te abencoa.
A special thanks to the Woods’ for letting me use their house while they’re gone. I’ve been keeping the house ready for guests all the time and they seem to show up pretty often. I’ve been baking, and hosting friends. I keep the tea box loaded, the water ready and I try to keep bon bons (like a big reeses with a crispy chocolate dipped shell) although certain someones make that challenging.
We’ve cooked together, prayed, written emails & poems, watched movies, read the bible, had worship times, recorded, just chilled or done work. The house has been a place of peace, stability, art and blessing. My last few days have been full of love and friends. I’ve been eating dinner at the toddler house every night and at least every other day I get to visit with my Mozambican family, Rosa, Nasimo and Chantal. Zelinha, Mark, Antoinette and I had a meeting this morning about possibilities for discipleship, what is happening, what works here and what doesn’t work.
I fly out of Pemba on Friday after a few days in Johannesburg and some time in Washington DC I’ll arrive in California on September 1st. Leaving will be difficult as I’ve made the grand mistake of loving many people here. Please pray for discernment as I seek God for my next steps.
In addition to many others, you’ve the gift of hospitality Ed! I’m so glad you are enjoying to the max your remaining days in Pemba. And the love you have for one another is definitely grand but hardly a mistake. We’ll be a praying. Hugs to all from mom.
We will praying for you, Ed.
Please tell Chantal I love her new hair-do!
Of course!!!
Obrigada!
What does obrigada mean? When i looked it up it meant debtor hehe.
Obrigada is how a girl says “thank you” in Portuguese!
oh. cool
I’ve never really told you what it’s like to run a church service here but I was just realizing how although it is unconventional it just seems normal to me now.
For starters you should know that everyone left town, including the pastor. They’re out doing evangelism for 10 days in another province 13 hours away.
No Dustpans.
I took my sweet time this morning and strolled in at 7:20am instead of 7 like normal. No worries- I was still the first one. The only time I’m not is when Zelinha’s girls sweep the ENTIRE church and hard wooden benches which are covered in a blanket of dust after just a few days. This is not a time oriented culture, they like events but schedules don’t mean much. Rosa called looking for the keys to our equipment room. No one knows who has them. I found them on on the drummer as I walked up to help search. Not that it mattered, the lock was broken. After removing screws and prying I kicked the door down (!). everyone seemed to think it was a good idea. We split the team, one group working on repairing the door, with the same broken parts and the other group started to set the stage.
After the door was fixed we skipped our morning practice and just soaked and ministered to each other in the equipment room. Village kids started whaling on our drum kit. A dog snuck into the church- most Mozambicans are terrified of dogs so I escorted him our before he got kicked.
Most Sundays there are dance performances
We build our setup from scratch every service. That means we bring our speakers, amps, cords, mics, drums etc, assemble everything every service and disassemble it after. Everything was working last night (Saturday) but this morning we didn’t have a working extension cord so I ran up to my house grabbed tools and made one. Only one of the four wall jacks works. The drummer shoved the bare copper of one cord into the power strip in order to power our sub. The drums set goes on a grass mat and they fill the floor tom with rocks to keep it from sliding around. String hold the cymbals up because the screws are missing.
The church guitar had a broken string, no one here has extras but I brought some over from the states, yay! (And thanks Terry). Everything is out of tune- there is no tuner so they pass the guitar and bass to be tuned by ear to a casio keyboard that in the states we would call a toy. I had played bass at practice but Mindo wanted to play so I did sound instead since there was no one running it anyhow. Other people will come “help” run sound too. My primary responsibilities are to not blow speakers and to protect the system from village kids. Mozambicans are better at the latter than the former. We don’t have monitors for the vocalists. Actually we don’t have monitors period.
Never know you shoes will be after church
Kids and others run around on stage from time to time- todays a trio pranced around the drum kit almost the whole time. During worship we overloaded the amps twice which meant only the sub was running for a while. Another time someone bumped an adapter and we lost power altogether. It sure doesn’t stop anyone from worshiping. The team never blinked. At times various people will come up to speak and they just grab the nearest mic and people just give it up gracefully and continue worshipping.
There is no projector. We taught a Shangaan song today which the Makua people learned in a minute and sang joyfully which was a surprise to me because aside from not speaking Shangaan there is normally some ethnic tension. One speaker started failing- something is wrong on the inside because when we set is on its side on the ground it works.
Ready to do it again!
I think that worship teams in the states would benefit from starting in these conditions before moving on to monitored, studio environments. It’s important to keep worship as the priority above production value. That’s all- the power’s out so I’ll have to send this later…
Praise God
Wow Ed!! That sounds like a lot of chaos but even more fun!
It sounds like the people who are worshipping allow the spirit to move no matter what direction!!! That is awesome!
Thank you for sharing, it is an encouragement!!!
Sounds like all the hearts were focused in the right places..upward!! I must admit, I would have probably been praying like crazy for assistance in “not sweating the small stuff” !! We are off to church soon ,we will pray for you this morning before second service worship. Thank-you for sharing. Bless you all
“At the end of the day God was glorified”……hahah!!!…yup and for sure, cuz the music He hears it what’s in the hearts and you guys and gals were singing that tune when you woke up and just kept singing all morning long.
Thanks so much for sharing, Ed! Great message in it, too! May He be glorified!
Sounds exciting…glad you have not had too much electricity run through you to effect your typing. Worship is worship world around, it is our hearts. We have had some great adventures regarding sound at LRCC. We are using the old soundboard and I have named it Spaceship Glory because Bill and I think it resembles a spaceship control station. It is good to get back to ‘basics’ but certainly makes ’set-up’ adventurous! Glory, glory, glory to the Lord!
A gift from my dear friend Chantal:
I like this very much!
Me too!
I like everything except the pickles
!selkcip eth ekil neve I
Me three!
Me four!!!
It’s my last week in Pemba. I’ve moved from student housing into Brian & Lorena’s house while they’re on extended outreach. My days are slower now- I’ve been eating dinner with the young kids a lot. I cleaned up the front room of the house I’m in so I can have guests over. I’m trying to plan a movie night with the younger teenage boys. This morning I did my laundry (by hand in a bucket) than came back in to this glory:
After eating and eating and eating I got a haircut- I look good, I’ll have to get you some pictures. Pray for wisdom and grace as leaving is hard on everyone- some kids are already disconnecting a little and I get asked “are you leaving today” every morning. I’ve been working on some ideas for discipleship here but other than that I’ve just been enjoying pouring into the lives around me and letting them pour into me too. There’s no mistaking love.
FOOD!!! YUM YUM!!! That looks amazingly GOOD!!!!
Beautiful breakfast Ed, you are soo loved! Wow! you are loved in 4 hemispheres!…and in 2 realms!…and in a zillion hearts!
I miss doing your laundry in a bucket! Lots of prayers to you ed. Did you get that baby pic I sent you? Also were you ever able to talk to Sara and Nath about the 8th?
Hey! Anytime you want to come do my laundry in a bucket…
hehe.. It’s a lot of work for sure!!!
Yesterday was Pam’s and my birthday! The short story is that it was a great Birthday, and thank you!!! Let me just tell you about what it was like here. The night before I spent with Pastor Supresa and lots of the kids from Maputo. We sang Shangaan praise, told stories in Portuguese and prayed in many tongues. Friends texted and mCel actually sent the messages (sometimes texts arrive hours or days later. Ha!).
In the morning I grabbed a lump of bread and walked up to school hut for dance practice where more than twenty of my favorite girls greeted me, tackled me and the sang a rousing rendition of happy birthday in Portuguese. After dance Rosa and a few of the girls stayed around to pray for me while the others went to clean up for church.
In the mean time Suzete planned a breakfast out at Russels so I grabbed a car and drove Nasimo, Suzete, Juma, Promise and two of my room mates out to breakfast. Nathanael made cake with coffee chocolate frosting. Mmmmmhhhhhh.
We got home just in time to catch the last few moments of church. I got to pray for a child with a cleft-palette and bless a widow who had twins of perhaps 2 months. I don’t have pictures but you can take my word that they are beautiful children, all of them. Onesia gave me a tiny hard wood toy guitar with dental floss strings wrapped in magenta tissue paper.
It just so happens that we are celebrating Mama Aida’s birthday today as well so we packed up LOADS of barbecued chicken and filled the camions with our kids, the village kids, the base staff, the students (about half of them have gone home) and drove to Marangania where we had a beach party all afternoon:
After swimming, sandcastles and sandy Africa acrobatics we left the whales (!) on the horizon and fired up the generator, got our the sound system and drums and had more dancing and worship. They roasted and presented a pig. 
The kids all had dance presentations for Mama Aida that went until the sun was gone and the brilliant Southern sky was filled with stars. We had a prayer and worship time for Heidi and then for me which ended supine gazing at the stars through lazy eyes and plenty of laughter.
I rode home in a the back of a truck where some of my favorite people (besides you, my beloved reader) sang happy birthday in Portuguese, English, Cantonese, Russian, Spanish and quite possibly other languages. Before heading off to rest Zelinia walked me to the girls dorms at the top of the hill where they had prepared a HUGE chocolate cake. We sat and ate, hading out cake to the boys who had tagged along suspecting that the journey might end in sweet treats. Finally, as if the day could hold nothing more, one of my friends performed a song she had written for me.
Of course I miss you all, I love you and I wish you could be here. To be honest I could have done without all the food, fanatics and even the beach because the best part of yesterday was just to be with people who love me and to be with people I love.
Thanks for the pictures!!!! Love them!!!
That picture of the kid in the air is amazing!!!
Yeah! They love doing flips down the hill
Just a little wild!!!! hehehe
Yayyyy! your birthday was so happy! what great pics and what a lovely day for you Ed! We missed you here but are so happy that you are much loved over there too. Big hugs for you and all your friends from me and dad. We had tons of fun celebrating Pam and Jeremy’s birthdays at Pat and Shayne’s with si, marissie, Lil Si, Emmy, cuz Levi, Pam, Jeremy, Moriah, Auntie, Uncle, Sandrey and Setuli.
Oh Ed what a nice birthday celebration. Im glad it was really really wonderful. My favorite part is laying supine gazing at stars through lazy eyes and being filled with laughter! I pray for many more of those moments for you!
Wow, Ed, what a blessed birthday!!! Thank you for sharing!!!! We love you!!!
I hope you birthday is more fun than a wheelbarrow full of kids racing down dirt hillsides on the African coast. Really, I do!
I love you and miss you
Yes, Happy Birthday, Pam, and Happy Birthday to you too, Ed!!! And congratulations on your graduation! We’re praying for protection for the kids there.
Hey! i believe that was taken w/ my camera!!! yay! happy birthday to Ed and Pam!
Happy Birthday Eddie!!! August birthdays rock!
The wheelbarrow looks almost safe….great picture, kids playing and laughing!
Happy Birthday Brother Eddie!!! Love you tons!!! I hope you had a wonderful Day!!
Graduation was a blast! Not only did I graduate the school but I was commended as school staff. Double grad, Yay! I’ll have to get some pictures for you tomorrow. Graduation was an all day event- there’s plenty to tell.
Please pray for the safety of our kids here at the children’s center. Three weeks ago we had to let all of our “professional” guards go in order to conserve funds. Currently some of Iris’ other Mozambican staff is filling in- people that were cut from their previous jobs. There’s only 3 or 4 night guards for the whole center and three of the last 5 days there’s been banditos around the girl’s dorms. They haven’t been successful yet as each of their attempts yields screams from the lighter sleepers. Please pray for supernatural protection!
I’m have an appointment for a run tomorrow at 4:30am so I’ll share more later. Sorry for the lack of pictures- really, my camera is fixed now…
Congratulation!!! YAY 2 check marks for you!!! Go Brother Eddie!!! Can’t wait to see your pictures!!! Have a Wonderful Day!!!
Yay! Double congrats!!
I will definitely be praying for the protection of the kids!!
Have a great day!
Happy Graduation Day Ed! And Happy Happy Birthday to you in just a few hours! I cant wait to hear the stories and see the pictures. We will be praying for safety for the kids and the compound. i wish I could send uncle Mike to you to take care of the banditos. Love you acres and acres…
It’s busy as ever here- we had a wild talent show the other day. Today is the last day of school and it’s no sit down day. We just finished our normal morning classes and now the whole school is loading up to go have lunch with the Mozambican bible students. After that we’ll spend the evening on outreach in a town about 20 minutes from here where the locals started to stone people last time. They stopped throwing rocks after a deaf person there was healed. This time there will be hundreds of us there and we’re praying the locals receive Jesus in His fullness.
Bia from the hospital died last week at age seven. We came to visit that afternoon but her family had already left. Please pray as you are lead for the family as well as those of us invested in her brief and sweet life.
Helder hasn’t been able to get a Visa yet- at his interview the US embassy said everything is great except that he doesn’t make enough money at his job. He has enough money, he just doesn’t make enough. Our contact at Metro Ministries is currently working with the embassy to try to get him a Visa anyway. Please pray. Helder is also looking at training with Metro in the Philippines. Please appreciate the international freedoms that we have just by being Americans- even travel is not so simple for the people here.
Tomorrow is graduation day, Saturday I have some work to do up in the recording room, Sunday is a birthday party for Mama Aida. I hope I find time to write you all again soon! Blessings,
We will be praying for Bia’s family and all you that knew her. Also we will keep Helder in prayer for a visa.
Happy graduation day tomorrow Ed! We will be having a birthday party on Sunday too for Pam and Jeremy. When you get home we will do a celebration for all you kids cuz Si wasnt here for his birthday either. Happy birthday to Mama Aida and happy birthday to you too Ed! lots of hugs to all, love mom
I will be praying for Bia’s family and those who knew her, that has to be hard!
And Helder is still in my prayers!
You are too Ed! Happy graduation!!!!!
I sure will be praying!! Happy almost Birthday from the other Palmas!!! Happy Graduation tomorrow!! Love you tons!!! See you soon!!!
Totally unrelated but an impressive coke delivery none the less.
I wish I had a picture of a monkey. In Makua “Ni havu” means we are all good, but in Shangaan a havu is a monkey so ni havu means “I am a monkey.” My friend Mozambican Onesia told me she was pretty confused when she moved up North into Makua territory.
That is all! Oh, and tomorrow is Onesia’s birthday! Ou Havu!
The man in the picture on the right is my hero. Click on him.
Ha ha ha!! That is awesome!!!
Then how do you say I am a good monkey?
He he! Love the photo!!!
Hey! glad your camera is working!!!!
In Portuguese, “Sou um bom macaco”, in Shangaan something like “Ni boah havu”
Happy birthday Onesia! and I love the coke delivery guy…and Simon is so cool for fixing your camera..Yay!
Is that the ones from the glass bottle??? I love those!!! I miss it so much!!!
hmmm… Eddie you have a birthday coming up soon! I will just start celebrating now.
You are soooo worth celebrating!
nicole and I saw a guy with SEVEN when we were n town one day!!! I think she has it as one of her profile pics on fb. it’s insane.
Before leaving Simon took a few hours to brave the wiles of digital camera repair in Africa and he did it! My camera is back in action, Praise God!
In other news Simon & Brock inspired the next generation with their recording project. I have three groups of younger kids that all want record their songs. I’ll probably just do some single mic, one take, live recordings as I have time and leave them a copy of their songs on CD. This morning at 10 I have a “session” Catarina and Salina. Fun!
YAY!!!!!! Your camera is back on the show!!!! love ya!!
Wahoooo!!!
I hope you bring those kids songs home Ed… I want to hear them too!
After plenty of prayer, a nice dinner Suzete cooked for me and a prescription of M&Ms from Kristin I’m all better. I went to class last night and I have no symptoms this morning. Thanks for your prayers!
I am really glad that you feel better now!!! Thank You God!!
I am really glad, too, that you are feeling better! Thank you, Jesus, for your healing power! Lots of love to you.
We are all so happy to hear the great news. No fun to be sick. Thank you god for hearing our prayers.
What a good God We serve!!!
Yay!!!
hmmmm….Jesus, m&m’s and a nice home cooked dinner….there is a lot of healing in that prescription for sure
Wow its so weird to be on this end of trekscratch again. Thanks Suzette for cooking for Brother Eddie!
Welcome Home!
Hi Ed from Pete & Ann, Sorry to hear you got the ‘Cobblywobblies’ (great expression Theresa!) We hope and pray you are stronger now. One month to go, wow you have served there faithfully and achieved alot. No Camera, that isn’t good, you are such an awesome Photographer, thank you for your great Trekscratch news. Lots of Love from Downunder
I woke up at 3:20am with nasty gut wrenching in my tummy and perhaps a mild fever. After a few fairly uneventful toilet trips (the bathroom building is next door) I got to puke my guts out around 5am. Of course I’m staying well hydrated and taking good care of myself as well as keeping other responsibly informed but please join me in prayer. Jesus help!
P.S. Sorry there’s no pictures; Remember about my camera? Anyway, it was like a hydrant!
P.P.S. Here’s an entirely unrelated picture of me in a palm tree
Praying for you, brother.
Thanks man!
Oh Brother Eddie I will sure be praying for you!! Love that picture of you in a coconut tree!!! Was there any coconut on that tree?
I don’t know, I wasn’t shopping, just climbing! I’m back to sleep for a bit- thanks for your prayers.
Ewww!!! I almost did that this evening from running (not enough water) Doesn’t feel good. Definitely be praying for you. Feel better.
When she heard I was vomiting, my friend Rosa quipped “Oh! Are you pregnant?”
What a bummer for you Ed. Any pain in the stomach is no picnic. I will pray for you to a speedy recovery.
hahah! Rosa is definitely a Palma kid too. Dad I and I were praying for you last night and will be praying again today Ed. I am so glad the bathroom building is just next door…that’s a blessing! If the hydrant opens at the other end remember the brat diet: bananas, rice, applesauce, toast ( no butter)…or whatever parts of that you can muster till your innards arent full of collywobbles any more.
I love the pic of you in the coconut tree….it’s the Bangladeshi boy in you.
xxxxxxooooooooxxxxxx
Collywobbles: severe gastroenteritis of unknown etiology; characterized by severe colic and vomiting and diarrhea.
Nice word use Mom! Suzete cooked dinner for me, my fever is down and I feel like I was sick. I am well taken care of and quite possibly completely healed.
Yucky! Sounds awful!
Hope you get better soon!
It is kinda ironic though… I had a strong urge to pray for you last night! ha ha!
Praying for you friend!!
Collywobbles: Grandma MJ’s term for severe gastroenteritis of unknown etiology; characterized by severe colic and vomiting and diahrrea. Or, just any tummyache. I am so glad to hear you are feeling better! Thank you Jesus! and thank you Suzette for cooking dinner for Ed!
Here a few briefs for you you daily viewers (there’s about 30 of you):
The Oldest Man in Pemba
We got all the papers, pictures and fees for Nasimo to get a passport. He doesn’t have travel plans now but this opens the possibility.
So that’s that. Life is busy as ever. I have stacks of things to do, emails to write, forms to fill out, embassies to keep in touch with, kids to play with, friends to talk to, people to counsel and above all God to seek. Sometimes it’s pretty hard to keep all of my priorities straight so pray that I have wisdom with my time, discernment with my spirit and love love love.
I have less than a month left in Mozambique and the weeks pass like days. See you soon.
Thanks for the update Ed. We are certainly keeping Helder’s visa in our prayers…that subject is close to my heart! Hey, I think Helder should come visit the west coast too. Holy chocolate ice cream! wow! I want some! I’m glad you got to meet the oldest man in Pemba. What an honor! Love you, miss you, praying for you
Ed, what a God’s blessing that he has given you. Being there you touch everyone hearts. I bet the children are so excited to see you. About how many people live in Pemba? My prayers are with you. I know that God is there to guide you each day.
There’s somewhere between 170 and 180 kids living here at this children’s center. There’s also an SOS children’s center just to our East as well as few other charities in town. The population of the city of Pemba is estimated around 140,000 although I’d not put too much faith in that number!
Thanks for you prayers. We need God here.
I commented to Jeremy that the time had flown since Pam left and he said something like “not fast enough”. =) We’re looking forward to hearing about her adventures.
Some of you have sent money for my friend Helder “Elder” Francisco so I wanted to give you an idea of who this guy is! After some work I managed to upload this video I shot on his last day here in Pemba. Today he is in Beira on his way South by bus to Maputo. In Maputo he’ll apply for a Visa to the US to do training with Metro Ministries. If your interested in supporting him you can email me and we can sort it out.
Thanks for sharing!! Love you!!
Thank you for sharing, Ed. What a precious video! Another example of what love looks like!
That was a great video, Ed. He seems like an awesome guy. Maybe he’ll have a chance to come west coast direction and spend some time out here! Praying for you all . . .
Have been praying daily for your team since Pam left… I love the quote by Jim Elliott (martyred missionary to Ecuador) “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose…”
Helder you are the best. Miss You
Chuck
this touched my heart deeply….
Yay! Every weekday- you’re welcome to come play with us!
Pam, Kristin and I made popsicles from 100% Mango juice and found some village girls who were very interested. Yay!
yummy! popsicles I bet they were excited! I would be!
I love this popsicle pic Ed….5 happy kids with a cool treat.. It reminds me of one I have of you, Pam, Si, David and Melanie all enjoying pudding pops on the doorstep at our old house.
Haha- me too! Five lil ducks
Just want to defend the little man in the orange shirt w/ the weapon on the front…as i believe he is a village boy! feel proud my pics are making it on the infamous trekscratch!
i KNOW those girls!!!!!!
awww! I love all these pictures.
aww, what cute kids! I can remember doing that with my sibilings. It was always really refreshing and fun! 
Popsicles Yum!!!
How cool!! Ha ha ha!! 
I try to keep up on news here in Mozambique. I caught this article on the “down to earth” women in the South who are washing, selling and eating dirt. To quote one woman “It is far more lucrative and easier to trade [than fruit and veg], It does not rot: once you have it you’ll sell until the last grain.”
Please bring me back some dirt!!! I bet it tastes good and different from CA!!!! I would love to have it on my ice cream!!!! yum yum…..
How about you bring some ice cream here and we’ll have some dirt together?
I am game!!! I am waiting for my flight right now!!! So I hope it will be here quick because I have ice cream in my ice chest and it is starting to melt because it’s a little Hot in CA!! I have some New Flavors!!! I am exited for you all to give it a try!!!!
Maybe it helps with digestion! Anyway, Kristin, enjoy your dirt…maybe you could think of it as a delicacy!
Ed, the photos of the ill and malnourished children are just tearing me up. What has the ministry been able to do for them? I would love to come help care for them but for now, we can pray. You’re missing some hot weather. It’s been around 106 in the Sacramento area. Bet it’s not too cool there either. Give our love to Pam. We are interceding for the team.
“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations for ever and ever! Amen.” Eph. 3:20
Hi Helen. Iris Minisries feeds 300-700 kids at the Pemba children’s center every weekday. We house over 170 (again, just at this one center). On Sundays everyone from church comes to eat too. Iris also operates a clinic that is free. We pray a lot.
Off base there’s outreaches, medical outreaches, jail visits, hospital visits and village evangelism. The weather here is awesome! 70’s to 90’s. Thanks for your encouragement!
setuli 9:02 pm on August 20, 2009 Permalink |
Brother Eddie!! Enjoy the last day!! I know Good Byes are really hard to say. I will be praying for you. God Bless you!! Love you!! Can’t wait to see you!!!
Ed 1:35 am on August 21, 2009 Permalink |
Thanks kiddo! It will be good to see you too!
Hannah Evans 10:04 pm on August 20, 2009 Permalink |
Sad (but somewhat happy) day. I like that picture.
Ed 6:03 am on August 21, 2009 Permalink |
It’s actually two pictures…don’t tell anyone though
setuli 8:39 am on August 21, 2009 Permalink |
Like Like!!! You all have wonderful white teeth!! which I love!!
Ed 8:47 am on August 21, 2009 Permalink |
No bugs!
setuli 9:14 pm on August 21, 2009 Permalink |
Yup yup!!! Have a safe flight!!!
setuli 8:52 am on August 28, 2009 Permalink |
Welcome Back Home brother Eddie!!!
The Miyachis 6:56 pm on August 28, 2009 Permalink |
Can’t wait to see you again, Ed! Thanks for blessing all of us with your updates.