Outreach Stories

Dear friends,

I was introduced to The Outreach Foundation twelve years ago when the late Rev. Nedson Zulu and Sebber Banda spoke at Bible study at our church. They described their ministry as building churches, schools, and wells and providing basic first aid to villagers in Tete Province, Mozambique. They described a very rural region scarred by civil war without electricity, transportation, or basic medical care. Sebber trained midwives to deliver babies and I felt her desperation to help mothers survive childbirth. I was shaken and moved by their presentation. I was struck by The Outreach Foundation; they showed up in a forgotten place a world away.

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We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life. (1 John 1:1)

“Yes. Thank you. I’d love some.” My hands reach sheepishly for both a cookie and a candy and my lips sip a steaming half-cup of bitter espresso. “Don’t refuse anything you are offered and drink the coffee quickly,” we were told, “then return your cup to the tray. They will reuse it in order to serve all of us.” It was as if sitting among chessmen on a chessboard, the white turbans of Muslim clerics on one side and the black head coverings of Syrian Orthodox priests on the other; yet not in opposition but in solidarity. How else, but to sit in a room dense with faith and Middle Eastern hospitality, would we understand the relationships that our partnering churches share with their neighbors.

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