Ex-landless

On Wednesday we visited the ex-landless settlement in Sao Mamede county and had a lovely time of fellowship with our leader there Dodora, her husband Paulo and extended family. They shared their testimonies with the Fiddys, showed us their wood burning cooker and flock of chickens, and served us with tea from their plant, coffee, bananas from their tree, bread, cheese and cake. It was a lovely time of food and fellowship.

A young Red-legged Seriema is a bird which normally grows to between 70 and 90 cms, has been given into us for recovery at Green Pastures. We are feeding it and caring for it.

On Wednesday night the women's fellowship met with 25 present and Margaret Fiddy was the visiting speaker. It was a really blessed meeting after which a tasty snack was served to all.

I have been having discussions with our senior leadership team concerning our 10-day evangelistic outreach next January. Please pray for this important event in our annual calendar.  

Yesterday we took David and Margaret Fiddy, with their son Nathaniel, on a good journey leaving Patos at 7:15 am. First we went to the town of Diamante arriving there after 10 am. We held an important meeting with the folk from our brand new church there which was extremely encouraging. We decided together to rent a meeting hall in the main street and buy chairs, sound equipment etc. as the Lord provides. From there we drove on a very bad road to Mata de Oitis to visit our church leaders there. Then we drove on to Barra de Oitis on an equally bad road (the exhaust pipe on the Kombi broke and we had a flat tyre) where we visited 3 toilet/shower units, 2 market gardens and 1 chicken run. We had a late lunch (2:30 pm instead of a planned 12 noon) and I ate large quantities of fish (Tilapia). We then visited the church at Vazante and then went to the service at Barra de Oitis where David preached and sang. We got home, tired but happy, just before midnight.