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 Our Journey To MozambiqueWe are blessed to be here as a team of four families committed to working together to share the message of new life in God's Kingdom among the Makua-Metto. We have seen threads of God's hand in the tapestry our lives, influencing us to take the steps that have become this journey to working in Mozambique. There is not room enough to tell all the stories of God working to shape and purify each of us through all those influences, so here we will share only a brief history of how God has shaped us as a team and how he has brought us here.
We all met at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, though we arrived there from many other places. Initially coming together through meetings for people interested in mission work in Africa, over a span of a year or two we decided to form a team to do church-planting work. Over the next several years, we focused on team dynamics, continuing to study missions, and praying for a location/people in Africa to work with. In addition, we all were working full time or starting/finishing degrees to further our educations. After much prayer and research into several people groups, eventually a decision was made to work among the Makua people of northern Mozambique. By the time we left the United States in 2003 for language school in Portugal, we were then a team of six families, and we had all been to Africa on at least one internship, and we all had sponsoring churches.
After nine months of language school in Lisbon, we left Portugal for Mozambique in December 2003. Our first year in Mozambique was a bumpy ride, with many significant events that we did not expect, including being instructed by the local government to leave and wait in a neighboring province until granted approval to return to Montepuez, followed by two families deciding to live and work in another province.
So we cling to some convictions of Paul, that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance produces character, and character produces hope. And we do have hope - hope in God's working to redeem and reconcile all creation to himself, including the Makua-Metto people of northern Mozambique. We are humbled and amazed to participate in his work.
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Team Training at Equip International 2002
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Church & Family Retreat September 2002
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Language Study in Lisbon, Portugal 2003
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