Chandame

Every second week, we buy new chicks. We experience reasonable sales figures. We received a contract to supply 1 ton of cucumbers and 1 ton of carrots per week in Tete. We prepared the soil on the farm, and on a weekly basis we plant 0.25ha of cucumber and carrots. We also planted butternut and squash (boerpampoen). We had a lot of trouble with our sheep that died, but with the help of a vet in Mozambiek and a vet in Ireland, dr. Martie Viljoen, we are treating them now, and are sure that we will conquer this situation In July we had 35mm of rain on the farm. We are very thankful for the rain as it is much needed for die coffee trees and the new vegetable plantings. Pastor Antonio still does door to door evangelism. The encouragement scripture he uses is Ephesians 6: 14 – 15 – The Armour of God “Stand firm, therefore, having fastened the belt of truth around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,  and being firm-footed in the gospel of peace.” All we do is to honour our Heavenly Father. Isaiah 41:15 – “See, I’m making you into a new, sharp, and multi-tooth threshing sledge. You’ll thresh and crush the mountains, and make the hills like chaff.” GOD CAN

On four occasions we bought chicks in June. They do eat a lot and grow fast. Every six weeks, we can buy a new batch. Jannie did some repair work on pastor Antonios motorcycle. We sold 25 bags of yellow mealies, and with the money we received, we were able to pay the annual taxes on the farm. Mwala Madzi’s vision is to be self sustainable and give a tenth of the income on the farm towards Kingdom work. We are strongly progressing in that way and are very excited about that. In middle June we started working on a new road to the farm. Jannie was on the tractor with the scraper and Dennis was on the TLB. The distance to the farm will be 7 km shorter with the new road. We are still not allowed to have church gatherings and services, and pastor Antonio does house to house ministry. The scripture he uses for encouragement, is Mathew 7:7 – “Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened for you.  At the clinic I only treat injuries and malaria cases.

We started with deforestation of a piece of land at Mwala Madzi to make space for new plantings. 5 May We started off with 200 broiler chicks and we plan to buy 200 every second week. On six weeks we can start selling live stock. 18 May We hired a threshing and harvesting machine from a group of the local people. Jannie had to do a lot of work and had to almost rebuild the machine before we could use is. The mealies has been harvested and stripped and placed in 50kg bags. There were 215 bags off the 2ha. We decided to mix our own chicken feed. Riaan en Soretha Terblance visited us, and it is always such a blessing to receive fellow believers. 19 May Be traveled to Vila Ulongwe (about 70km from us) to buy another 200 chicks. We are so thankful that we did not need to go accross the border to buy the chicks. 20 – 23 May We traveled to Tete for a Praise and Worship event with American fellow believers. It was awesome! 27 May The water pump and engine has been repaired and Jannie took it to the farm. Now the coffee trees can get enough water. Exodus 33 verse 21 And the LORD said, However, stand here on this rock beside me

April 2020 Mozambique is under lockdown as well and all the border posts are closed. Everybody must wear their facial masks and keep their safe distance. The church gatherings is held with not more than 10 people at a time, and they must sit outside the church building. One of our pastors held a communion service for 160 of his church members. He was arrested and had to pay a fine of 43 000 MT (R11 000). Jannie used this time to build shelves in the container, and now all his tools are organised and he can see where everything is. At the clinic we only see malaria patients and patients with wounds.

January 2020 to February 2020 Jan and Susan is still in South Africa. They enjoy the precious moments and time with their children, their grandchildren and friends. The fellowship and community with fellow brothers and sisters in Christ was very special to them. With new courage and peace, they could return to Chandame. Thank you to each and every one that surrounded them with love, prayers and care. On 27 February they departed from Rawsonville. They slept over at Van der Kloof and Kempton Park on their way to Mozambique. March 2020 Jan en Susan decided to travel through Mozambique. On this route they only had one border post to cross over. Within half an hour they were through the South African and Mozambique borders. Although the roads were bad in some places in Mozambique, they had a good and safe trip. They slept over in Maputu and after that at the N1 Lodge at Inhassoro and then in Chomoio. On 7 March 2020 at 16:00 they arrived at Chandame. Everything was so green and pretty after the rain. They were welcomed by the prettiest flowers. The people of Chandame were very glad and excited to see them. 9 March 2020 Susan started with the clinic. There were a lot of Malaria patients. In March she saw 430 patients. The patients awaits their turn by standing outside the gate, and come to the clinic one by one for their medicine. Susan wears a mask and after se saw a patient, […]

November 2019 We started our Farming God’s Way project with the youth. At each Prayer house a club was established and Embewe helped with all the training. The first assignment was to make compost. Thereafter each one had to plant on a piece of land by the hand of the Farming God’s Way principles. Our main focus is on the youth, because the older people is very set in their ways when it comes to preperation of the land and planting. We reiceived open polinated yellow mielies, with the means to plant them. By using the Farming God’s Way method and principles, we plantend 2 hectre. We trust and believe that the workers that helped us with the preparation of the land and planting, will also use the same method of doing on their land. Two channels was completed on the farm Mwala Madzi. Mwala Madzi means water in the rock. Jannie made a weir in the river to carry off the water to the channels. He is planing on building a water wheel, which will help with the irrigation on the farm. The planted coffee trees is growing well en strong. The Helderberg Congregation donated a motorbike which we delivered in Milange in Mosambiek. The eye outreach instruments which was stored in Milange, we brought with us and delivered the intstruments at Villa Ulongue. December Our grandchildren, Christian en Mia-Grace Lombard, visited us at Chandame. This was a very special visit. Christian helped Jannie on the farm, and Mia-Grace […]

From 1 to 11 September I had the opportunity to make a brief visit to South Africa. I attended my granddaughter, Gabriella’s, ballet concert and I also attended a grandparents event at her school. The theme of this event was Fruits of the Spirit. I thought deeply about the Fruit of the Spirit. It is surely a command and not an option that is given to the children of the Lord in Galatians 5: 13 – 26. On 21 September we departed for Meponda for a Missionaary conference that was held from 23 to 27 September. After a wonderful time of fellowship and Bible study, we feld uplifted and encouraged for the rest of the year that still lied ahead of us. The Lord ordered Jannie to pray in the capitals of the 10 privinces of Mozambique and specifically on the town square where the stadue of Samoar Machel is. Each morning at 10:00 on the square in each of the capitals we prayed that the Lord will bind the stronghold of Satan over Mozambique and we claimed Mozambique back. Since the Lord assigned this task, Jannie received Word: 1 John 5: 4 – 5 – For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.  Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?  Matthew 18: 18 – 19 – Truly, I say to you, whatever you […]

Time flies – Augustus 2019 is gone – We started our children ministry gatherings and the format is to start by reading a Bible story, giving each child a A4 paper and two crayons, and then there is worship time and we end of with time of prayer. It is such a blessing to see the lovely pictures that the kids draw. There is a men’s group that get together for fellowship, worship and prayer every second week. Each morning before the clinic starts, Maria (out pastors wife) reads a Bible verse, gives a short message to the patients and ends with a prayer. In this way, the Lords message is conveyed to those visiting the clinic. From 15-18 Augustus there was a women’s conference at Mphatsa, and the theme was Walk in Faith. 468 woman attended this gathering – not only did they have the opportunity to receive lectures, they had a wonderful fellowship time amongst each other as well. They sang together, cooked together, talked a lot and did not sleep alot. On the Sunday the gathering was ended after the Church service, and everyone went home encouraged and excited after the few days together. On 27 Augustus, there was a Youth Evangelism weekend in Limbuni – one of our outposts. 91 Young people attended this weekend. Lectures were given, they had fellowship of worship and prayer together and did door to door visits. The theme of the weekend was to sit at the Feet of Jesus. The […]

At the end of May 2019 we delivered two 125cc motorbikes to the pastors that finished Hefsiba at the end of 2018. They were very excited and thankful. Thank you to Missions office in the Western Cape for the donation. All is well at Chandame. We are planning to establish a youth club at each of the prayerhouses, where we want to implement the principals of Farming God’s Way. Wilhelm Els is going to assist us with this project and we do believe that the youth will be very receptive to this The crops of the 30 farmers to whom we supplied beans and fertilizer, is ready for harvesting. We are planning to create a Co-Op model, and therefor we are buying the beans back from them. The 3600 coffee trees on the farm is growing well. We are almost finished with the 70m channel that was dug by hand. This is where we are going to install the water wheel. Our highlight of June and July 2019 was the visit of the Shofar Outreach Team of Durbanville and George. This group of young people engaged with so much ease to everything here on Chandame. The woman were tought to make themselves circle skirts (all the needlework here is done by hand). There was a special ladies day, and the day ended with a pedicure treat to all the woman. House to house visits were done, they visitited the school and we had an Evangelist weekend. After that weekend, the […]

After spending precious time in SA with our children, grandchildren, family and friends, we arrived back on Chandami on the 10th of March 2019. Aside from being very wet, and very green here, everything was well maintained here, and everybody was very glad to see us. The road to the farm was eroded after the heavy rains. One measurement that was taken, was 500mm of rain in only three days. After very hard work of scraping the roads, and packing rocks in the river, we could now get to the farm again. The drive to the farm now takes about 40 minutes. After Jannie went to the farm on 22 May, we can report that the coffee trees are growing well. The workers on the farm now also have clean water for drinking and cooking, as we have made a water filter for them. We sold beans to 30 farmers in the area, and the idea is to buy the beans from them after they harvested their crop. Currently their land looks good after the good rainfall. The clinic is also in full operation again. The amount of patients vary between 30 and 60 per day, and we had a lot of patients with burn wounds lately. Maria, the pastors wife, is the one that helps me with the burn wounds. Just today there were two burn wound patients – one was a little 6 year old boy who stepped into the fire with both feet, and the other was […]