Life in Chimoi

As I mentioned yesterday, we made it without any real problems. It’s been quite warm during the day around 23, but it does cool down during the night. We arrived in Beara stayed the night and headed to the game park to meet the locals… of the animal kind, which was a nice start to the trip and it gave us a bit of time to get our feet under us rather than jumping straight away into teaching.

We met the pastor and leaders yesterday all 58 of them. Most of them men and 4-5 women who are leaders for the Women of the Church of God. We jumped into teaching which is taking a bit longer than I was planning. One of the Translators is speaking in one of the local tribal tongues, but isn’t that proficient in it, so there is lots of pausing as he clarifies in Portuguese especially when dealing with Biblical concepts. Lots of fun though. Again the singing is a huge treat. It’s great! One leads out with a line and is answered by deep harmonies, clapping and dancing, the leader then responds and is answered again by the rich sound of the people. Quite amazing. They wanted myself and the other Pastor (Dave Van Roon) too sing for them and I had to explain there is a lot wrong with that request (as most of you know.)

Tammie Tregellas the missionary from Malawi who is taking us around is great. She knows what she is doing and works really hard. She has organized this whole event which is quite an accomplishment since the church in Mozambique has never all met together at one venue before. It is the first time many of the pastor have actually met one another. And they have never had a General Assembly. It is quite an honor to be a small part of that.

We’re staying with a wonderful couple Mark and Andrea Pavkov. They are doing work for some of the local orphanages in the area. They’re great hosts and have treated us really well, and are wonderful laid back people (which clashes with my personality…me with my attention to detail and organization). So all is quite well.

Over the next 2 week not much will be changing in our schedules we will get up, teach come home, eat, sleep. So not a lot of excitement going on, Chimoi probably isn’t the best place to vacation, not a lot of sites to see or necessarily the safest, so we wont be venturing too far from home. But we are truly enjoying the all the people around us, the Pastors and leaders at the school as well as the missionaries.

Till next time.