We again had spent a special holiday with children, grandchildren, family and friends. We always felt blessed and we left for Mozambique with great courage and joy to come and work for the Kingdom of God! We were also blessed with another grandchild on 21 January 2015, when Alexander Daniel De Kock was born in South Korea. We now have 5 lovely grandchildren! Although we couldn’t be with our children when Alexander was born, we know that God was there and thank Him that all went well.
On the 26th of January 2015, we attended the Mission Convention in Paarl, where we learned from the other missionaries. We praised and worshipped and we went home with the knowledge that you must go back to the basics – focus on God, He only wants the best for you!
We arrived at Chandame on the 6th of February 2015, and were again welcomed with lots of flowers and lots of happy people! Our garden looked wonderful – everthing was green and the flowers were beautiful. You could also see that it was a rainy season during November, December, January up until end of April.
We brought back some Sandveld potato seeds that we planted here on Chandame to multiply and use for future planting (a special thank you to Henk van Zyl of Leipoldtville in South Africa for the gift).This will be our first attempt to produce seeds and the start of our dream to do all types of seeds which are replantable and good germinators.
We were tested severely by illness and small problems with our vehicle and power tools during our first two months here at the station. The thought of what our purpose here was, crossed our minds, but the Lord taught us, through his Word, that we had to persevere. Even our finances were at some stage very bleak, but we are pressing onwards for His sake.
We started on the clinic again and, although our finances are low and we feel our passion is not really supported, we shall carry on, as the need for medical services in Africa is high and a lot of people die without it. Susan is seeing up to 90 people per day for medical care. The cases of malaria are very high at this time of year, and deaths are frequent. THE CLINIC PROJECT NEEDS TO FINISH and start serving the community. We have finished building the clinic, which is quite big (I believe it can even be used as a hospital), and are busy working on the inside. The government promised to furnish the clinic themselves on the inside, but their passion for medical care is very low. Even their mobile clinic is not nearly as constant with medical care as it should be, and medicine seems to be usually unavailable. Politics in Mozambique seem to overshadow any other service to the communities.
We also started teaching “Farming God`s Way” again, with our blanket making process for the potatoes. Wilhelm Els also visited our station to help with the teaching. The development of the farm with the local residents will be a school for them, and we hope that the example of how we farm shall encourage the locals to follow. This system of learning about GOD and the methods of increasing yields is a must for us in 2015, as this will spread the Word of God, and also supply food for the local residents, who are in much need of sustainable nutrition. This will also enable them to supply food for themselves as well as their communities on a sustainable level.
We ask that you will keep us in your prayers, especially for our Clinic Project, which is in desperate need of financial support.
Regards,
Jannie & Susan