[Beens Prayer Partners] June prayer newsletter
Dear Partners,
29 May 2005
HELLO FROM MOZAMBIQUE!!!!!! We are so excited to finally be here and
to be at the point of starting our actual ministry among those whom
we've been called to serve. Karunia, Asher and Robin have now been in
Mozambique for a week while Josiah and Dan have been here about
three. We look forward to the days, weeks, months, and years ahead of
us!!! Thanks for your partnership and your prayers.
Praise God with us His blessings and providence and faithfulness are
so amazing!
The Portuguese spoken in Mozambique is slightly easier than
the Portuguese in Portugal, primarily b/c things aren't as
grammatically correct. Both Dan and I have felt fairly confident in
our communication which is a huge blessing. We'll continue to study
some, though simply talking with people will help cement things even
more.
The housing we have here is an amazing blessing! Months ago
we'd sent a list to teammates of things we needed to have in a house
and then a 2nd list of things we'd like to have in a house, though
never imagined we'd get all those. Well God surpassed even our
wants. The house is wonderful we have plenty of space, are
surrounded by Mozambican neighbors and have room for visitors! Give
us a bit and then we'd welcome your visit!!!! (we're serious!)
Though there are still many things we have to do to finish
getting settled, we rejoice in the amount of things that have been
accomplished so far.
Our workers. We've now managed to secure workers to help with
the yard care, house, and guards to work at night. Some of these are
fellow Christians and one of our guards is a Muslim. All of them
desperately needed work so we rejoice in being able to serve as a
blessing to them in this manner while they in turn serve as a blessing
to us. As they help with the daily grind of tasks it frees us more
for ministry.
Friends for the kids. While perhaps they don't even know all
their names our children are not going to be lacking for friends!
On any given afternoon we already can find 10-15 kids running around
in our yard!
Safety in travel both on the planes from Portugal and then
from Maputo to Nampula. Also for Dan as he drove up from Maputo to
Nampula (a 3 day trip).
Karunia's sleep has been wonderful. During the 2 weeks while
we remained in Portugal without Dan and even since we've been here in
Mozambique, she has done wonderfully no problems with sleep or
tantrums in the night. The boys have also seemed to transition well.
The provision of a vehicle! Dan managed to find a good,
reasonable priced vehicle fairly quickly. It is a used vehicle, which
we'd been hoping to avoid (roads here are terrible on cars), however
it's a new car to Mozambican roads! People have started importing
used Mitsubishi's from Japan so even though it's used, it hasn't had
the roughness of roads here so that's great. It made the trip up from
Maputo without problems and we rejoice in this provision!
Please join us in praying for:
That we would continue to settle in over the next few weeks.
Many things are still out of place while we wait for carpenters to get
kitchen shelves put in place and dresser drawers fixed. It's simply
all the little tasks that take time to accomplish.
For the sale of our car in Portugal. Our friend and
babysitter from the church there is planning to buy it, however the
banks there are being slow in processing her credit so we haven't yet
completed the sale. Simply pray that this would be finished soon.
Dan will be traveling back down to Maputo sometime in June,
once our things shipped by boat arrive (theoretically around the 8th),
to arrange to get them up here. Pray all would go well with his
travel and that process.
Pray for ministry opportunities to present themselves. Dan is
anxious to get to the center, though we're still so preoccupied with
daily tasks to get settled that it may be a few more weeks. Robin is
thinking of starting a story hour once a week with the kids that
come. Within this she could introduce Bible stories and such as well.
Pray for opportunities to be a blessing to those around us.
Pray for wisdom as we have to balance the many pleas for help
that are already presenting themselves. We long to help people around
us, but we're going to have to develop guidelines to keep from being
taken advantage of by thieves and others who aren't so honest.
Pray for wisdom as we establish rules of play for the kids and
their friends.
For a healthy pregnancy for Robin and for healthy development
of the baby in her womb.
Pray for our safety. While we feel safe, we realize that we
could easily be a target for theft as we are surrounded by people who
are drastically poorer than we are. Pray for our protection from
malaria and other illnesses. Pray for our Spiritual protection as
well God is greater than our enemy we rejoice in that but we
know our enemy is not happy that we are here!
Blessings on each of you.
Robin and Dan
PS Luanne - I went ahead and sent this to e-mail people obviously so I
wouldn't have to authorize it. If you could please still send to
snail mail people.
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