Holistic Evangelism in Tete Province - August 2021 Update
Outreach trustee Berry Long recently shared the following update on the Holistic Evangelism in Tete Province, Mozambique partnership:
I want to give you an update on our Holistic Evangelism in Tete Province project. Project Director Sebber Banda is doing well. She lives in Blantyre, Malawi about an hour and a half from Tete Province, Mozambique. She moved to Blantyre years ago when her children were small so that they would go to school in an English-speaking country instead of Portuguese-speaking Mozambique. Her son Adam is at home doing online college classes. He had been in college in China but moved back home when the COVID-19 virus began to spread. Her daughter Nancy was accepted at a college in Lusaka, Zambia and Sebber just returned home from taking Nancy to college and getting her set up. They are excited that Nancy can begin her college studies, but they worry about the new wave of COVID cases in Lusaka. Please pray for Nancy and her friends to stay well.
The pandemic has prevented us from operating at full speed with our Holistic Evangelism Project, but we have still been able to accomplish quite a bit. We are building a manse for the Zobue church and it is nearing completion. We are building toilet blocks at two of the schools in rural areas. We were able to resume our leadership training seminars at the Leadership Training Center (LTC) in March, and provided masks, soap, sanitizer, and handwashing machines at the LTC and some schools and churches. This training was going well and we were having larger than usual attendance, but there has been a resurgence of the virus and the government recently announced that groups should discontinue gathering. This also affects schools and churches.
Even before this latest set of restrictions, the border crossings had not relaxed enough to allow our preferred Malawi driller and his employees to cross into Tete Province. Sebber contacted a well driller in Tete Province who agreed to drill some wells for us this year. Sebber is very persuasive. The survey work and mobilization took place, and three of the five wells have been completed. We are so excited to resume our well drilling in Tete Province. The need is great, and the gift of clean, living water will be a dream come true for these villages. It is wonderful to think of the happiness and relief that will be felt by the women and girls who will not have to walk so far to fetch water for their families. Please pray that the people in Tete Province will be spared the effects of this pandemic and that life will return to normal for them.
Zikomo kwambiri ("thank you very much" in the local dialect),
Berry Long
Read more about Holistic Evangelism in Tete Province HERE.
THE NEED
The Outreach Foundation is seeking gifts totaling $315,500 for churches, wells, schools, teacher housing, leadership training seminars and center, bicycles, and village health kits. You may make a gift HERE or by sending a check to our office.