Thanks to our financial partners, we have begun supporting the nursing school education of another student this year, Jossias Daniel!
This past November, Director of Medical Services, Vladimir John, and Director of Children’s Services Tony Gonondo, teamed up with another Christian ministry, Chosen Children, to conduct a health education and children’s ministry outreach in a remote village outside of Chimoio.
This year’s Christmas party for the children in our children’s ministry and orphan assistance programs fed and blessed more children than ever before!
When over 60% of your country's adults are illiterate and only a quarter of a percent of its population have attained a higher education, a meaningful future can feel impossible. Thankfully, we serve a God who makes a way when there seems to be none. Lourenço Caetano knows this all too well...
Death by easily treatable illnesses is a factor of life in most African countries. Mozambique is no exception. Reaching and attending to people in remote areas can be both challenging and exhausting. Recently, our medical team had such an opportunity to serve in a mighty way.
If given the choice to buy a beverage at a fast-food drive thru or a candy bar at a gas station or to instead use that same amount to help a family in desperate need, which would you choose? It doesn't take much to make a difference in someone's life. Take a look at how our team was able to help people this week with just $1.30 in the wake of Cyclone Eloise.
God searches the heart of a man for those willing to serve Him, even when it's scary; even when it doesn't make sense. It's in those moments of being yielded to His will that miracles happen. On Saturday, January 23rd, in the midst of a cyclone, one of our own had the chance to be that yielded vessel to help save a life.
In 2010, during our first trip to Mozambique, Jason and I served as Interim Directors of a well-known ministry's missions base in the central part of the country. One of the many facets of life and ministry there was a home for boys who had been orphaned, abandoned, or whose only family could no longer care for them. It was there that we first met Lourenco, one of the boys in the ministry's care.
We Americans are blessed. Truly, we are so blessed! While we may have been distanced from our church families for several months during the Covid-19 lockdowns, most of us have still had access to livestream, recorded services or podcasts, a bible or two in our home...
Early into our plans for Hope of a Nation, we had decided to bring our Mozambican leaders to the U.S. for ministry and to raise awareness of our work in Mozambique. After months of planning and coordinating, our team arrived in the U.S., but then, something so unexpected happened that it seemed the world was turned completely upside down - a global pandemic.