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 […]

1 March – Jannie takes Pastor Antonio and the elders to a funeral in Mphatsa.  They only arrive back in Chandame late that evening.  We help Paulina, a 12 year old at the clinic.  She got burnt because she got an epileptic fit and fell in the fire.  She returns every second day for burn treatment.  It’s a slow process, but progress was made. 2 March – Rory Benette gives a huge gift of Vetiver grass (a type of grass to stop erosion) to help with the erosion at our water source.  This gift helps us stop erosion. 3 March – We head to Vila Ulongue to hand monies over to workers that were sent by Helen Meyer. 4 March – Jannie celebrates his birthday by towing a 2 ton lorry with the tractor. 5 March – We head to Karacher for a Sunday church service with Pastor Antonio, his wife, Vasco (Skiba) and Stella.  Every day the clinic is up and operational at Chandame from 9:00 – 12:00.  We have many malaria cases. 15 March – Jannie is busy with “recovery” in Agua Boa, a mountain pass close to Chandame.  Johan and Heidie Kruger and their 3 kids arrived at Chandame late in the afternoon.  They are on an Africa trip with their camper and bikes heading to Jerusalem.  Along the way, they do evangelical work.  They stay with us and only leave CHandame on the 18th of March.  Jannie also fixes Johan’s bike.  The few days we spent […]

We are still in South Africa. 5 February – We attend a cell group meeting with Rian and Saretha Terblanche.  An awesome experience. 7 February – We visit Lance from Josua Generation for breakfast. 8 February – We have lunch at Huis Lafras Moolman, the retirement home in Rawsonville.  We pray for our power station and are so thankful for all the prayers from the people at HHM.  Jannie contracts malaria again. 10 February – Rian and Saretha Tereblanche visit us for breakfast. 12 February – We meet up with Dean Labuschagne, his wife Sarah and their 2 daughters.  They live on a farm in Malawi. 13 February – We are still in Rawsonville.  We enjoy the visits from family and friends. 19 February – We depart Rawsonville at 4:00 in the morning to get to Rita and Andre Fouche in Kempton Park. 20 – February – We do shopping before leaving South Africa. 21 February – We decided to head to Chandame via Botswana, Zambia and Malawi. We leave Kempton Park at 5:00 in the morning and start the long drive to Botswana.  After a long day’s drive, we reach Elephant Sands in Botswana. 22 February – Due to problems with the Colt’s alternator, we are forced to spend a luxury night at the Kafue Hotel in Zambia. 23 February – We eat breakfast at the hotel and find someone in Lusaka to fix the alternator.  Of all places, the job is completed on a side walk.  Thombe takes […]

At this time, we’re still visiting family and friends in South Africa.  We also visit our dentist, optometrist and doctor for an annual checkup. 2 January – Riaan and Saretha Terblanche visit us in Rawsonville.  They reside in Tete, Mozambique.  They approach us with the idea of planting coffee at Mwala Madzi, a 900 hectare farm we rent from the Mozambique government. 14 January – We attend a missionary weekend in Strand, South Africa.  Young and old, new comer and veteran missionaries attend and share information and stories.  We always find it interesting to listen to these tales of mission work. 16 January – Jannie heads to Cape Town in search of parts for our Colt Bakkie. The Colt’s gearbox needs to be redone before heading back to Chandame. 19-20 January – We attend our grandchildren’s athletics day in Porterville.  It is really something special to be part of your children and grandchildren’s lives and we are truly blessed. 21 January – We head to George for our youngest grandson’s birthday party.  Jannie heads to Prins Albert with Janiel de Kock to see Janiel’s farm, Hangklip.  I stay in George to spend time with my youngest daughter Susan and her family. 26 January – We head to Brackenfell to see our grandchild, Andreas van Dyk, take part in his school athletics day.  We head back to Rawsonville and arrive home at 20:00.  Jannie takes Willem de Villiers to Cape Town for a meeting and his search for Colt parts continues. […]

1 December – 75 patients visit the clinic.  At 13:00, I went to our kitchen feeling weak and realize I have malaria.  I was horribly ill.  Jannie was busy with a recovery for mpy in Harare. 1 – 4 December – Piet and Estelle du Plessis from Nkohoma visit us.  It was great having them at Chandame.  Estelle assisted in cooking and Piet made a scrumptious potjiekos meal.  I was not a good host because of the malaria. 10 December – We spend the night at Johan, Anina and their kids.  They are new friends we met in Mozambique. 11 December – We depart at 5:00am to transport Fernando’s belongings from Vila to Milange.  He is a student at Hefsiba, Vila.  We drive in the pouring rain and spend the night in Milange.  The next day we head for Milange to pick up Hennie Smit’s items to be sent to South Africa. 14 December – We depart for South Africa at 4:30am. 17 December – We arrive in Rawsonville.  It was great seeing our family and friends and spending time with them. 25 December – We head to church and enjoy the Christmas sermon.  A definite presence of the Holy Spirit and love of the community is felt.  We spend Christmas day in Porterville with our children and grand children.  We also spend time with friends in Rawsonville under “the tree”. We end off our year feeling that God put us here for a reason and we just need to […]