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 […]

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 […]

  In begin van 2018 oes ons ons eie mielies op Mwala Madzi. Klomp saad word weggesit vir herplant. Die res maal ons vir onsself vir mieliemeel en gee ook vir ons werkers en vir die inwoners wat swaarkry en nie goeie oeste gehad het nie. Ons het ook nou ons eie groente tuin met slaai, wortels, tamaties, uie, spinasie, greenpeppers, aarbeie en kruie. Ons werknemers met hul gesinne eet saam met ons uit die tuin. Ons ook geseën met ‘n papajaboom, piesangs en grenedellas. Ons koffiesaailinge groei mooi en is gesond. Ons het vyf varieteite wat binnekort reg sal wees vir uitplant. Die grondvoorbereiding op die plaas vir die plant van die koffiebome vorder mooi. Ons het begin met ontbosting maar los natuurlike bome om te dien as skadu vir koffiebome. Aan begin gaan ons koffiebome natlei uit rivier. Kanaal gegrawe op plaas met 9 werkers asook besproeiing natlei sloot tussen koffiebome. Van die inwoners woonagtig om die plaas gebruik om gate te maak vir plant van koffiebome. Hul word per gat gegrawe betaal en dit was ook sommer werksskepping. So kon hul geld verdien om kos te koop.Valentino ons een werknemer is aangestel oor 8 permanente werkers. Ons is baie trots op hom hy oortref homself en so leer ons hul ook bietjie van eie waarde en verantwoordelikheid. Woensdae oggende ses uur hou hy ‘n biduur op Mwala Madzi vir die werkers en omliggende inwoners. Maandag 25 November 2018 begin ons met oorplant van koffiebome op plaas. Daar […]

4th of October 2017 Riaan and Saretha Terblanche visit us on Chandame.  They bring us more coffee beans than we expected and eventually 5 variants were planted in our nursery.  We eagerly await the first harvest. 5th to the 19th of October 2017 Our daily chores continue as per usual at Chandame. 20th to the 22nd of October 2017 We host an Evangelism weekend at Namanweja where one of our prayer houses is situated.  We transport some members of the congregation with our tractor and trailer.  Jannie drove the tractor with all the congregation members on the trailer and I drove the bakkie with their entire luggage.  We start at Chandame and pick up people who want to attend the evangelism weekend along the way.  These folks are met on the main road as we do not pass each prayer house individually.  The tar road to Namanweja is good, but it takes the tractor 3 hours to drive 10 km on the dirt road.  At Namanweja, there were many speakers and there is virtually no time for the attendees to rest.  The schedule includes praise and worship, speakers and sharing meals amongst attendees.  The schedule is jam packed and there is almost no time to sleep.  300 people attended the weekend and the prayer house also received many new members. 28th to 31st of October 2017 We head over the border to Nkhoma and on the 29th, Jannie and Hennie head to Salima, Malawi.  Jannie collects the windmill that he wants to use in Chandame to help […]

1st to 2nd of September 2017 We go medicine shopping in Lilongwe.  On the second, Jannie takes Kobus Minaar to Tete.  He visits Willie Gouws, and Riaan and Saretha Terblanche. 5th to 8th of September 2017 Jannie contracts malaria.  Wynand and Beualah Theron arrive with a truck with a TLB.  Jannie is amazed that he receives help to deforest the farm. 11th of September 2017 On this day, we start.  Jannie is very excited since everything is falling into place.  Jannie drives the tractor and wagon, Wynand the TLB and Beaulah the bakkie.  I pack them a lunch and the 3 of them only arrive back home late.  Tuesday and Wednesday are also dedicated to working on the farm.  Jannie brings a massive load of wood with the tractor and wagon because he needs the space to bring some women to a women’s meeting in Tsangano. 14th of September 2017 Jannie departs early with the tractor and wagon to collect women in Tamb for the women’s meeting.  Eventually, he uses Wynand’s truck to take them to Tsangano.  He leaves the truck there and returns with a bakkie.  The women’s meeting is from 14 – 17 September. 15th and 16th of September 2017 Jannie and Wynand do a recovery mission with Kwaai babatjie.  They only return on the Saturday after 6 pm and are dead tired.  The next day, Jannie drives to Tsangano to collect the women from the women’s meeting.  The meeting was a success.  They had many speakers, lots of food and little sleep.  A great time […]

3rd of July 2017 We drive to Tete to pick p John and Fatsane and do ACRI shopping.  We also collect Wayne and Lynette Dodd, and Amber Polley of Josh Generation.  They have come to visit us at Chandame and we spend the night in Tete 4th of July 2017 We have breakfast and head towards Chandame.  We arrive back home at 11:00am, drop off the guests and drive to Pastor Dzonzi funeral (he was a pastor at Chandame).  Wayne and some of our local laborers remove our bakkie’s diff.  We arrive home at 18:00 to the smell of an amazing dinner done by Lynette and Amber.  The two of them also had socialized with our Youth Choir.  They sang with the choir and also learned them new songs.  Currently, our Youth choir practices every Tuesday and Saturday afternoon. 5th of July 2017 Amber assists us at the clinic.  Being a 6th-year medical student adds great value to the clinic session.  Lynette assists with bandaging wounds.  The Chisomo knitting group meet up with Amber at 16:00 for a knitting session.  Josh Generation sent a ton of wool gifts for the group and the ladies are very excited.  Wayne assists Jannie in doing all the small chores that Jannie does not get around to.  These include installing a cupboard in the kitchen, breaking down a wall so that the freezer can stand in the kitchen, wiring the fridge and parts of our bedroom and finally fixing our broken kitchen window. 7th of July 2017 We head […]

1 April – Rian and Saretha visit us for a week.  Their goal is to help us with developing the new coffee plantation. 3 April – We start planting the coffee beans.  Saretha contracts malaria. 7 April – Rian and Saretha head back to Tete.  I continue working at the clinic.  Jannie heads to the local river to pack stones en route to the farm (Mwala Madzi). 8 April – Jannie tows a motor from the river.  A local’s mule and wagon is used to assist the tractor.  The job happened deep in the bush and takes about 5 hours.  After a lot of effort and work, the motor is leaded onto a truck. 9 April – We attend Chandame’s church service.  The scripture comes from Luke 17 verse 11 – 19 and we are thankful again for God’s grace in our lives. 10 April – Jannie contracts Malaria again.  Every time he pushes his body to far, the virus re-surfaces again. 12 April – The mobile clinic from Vila Ulongue visits us and 400 women with babies are present.  Babies are weighed and vaccinated.  Pregnant women are also given special attention.  The process takes the entire day. 13 April – One of the locals bring us a 4-month-old baby boy at 14:00 in the afternoon.  The child is furiously ill and unfortunately passes away an hour later.  The parents should have brought him to us earlier. 14 April – Susan visits Jenifer as she had a big operation.  She […]