Wow, water and power

Midia Cooking Sudsa for lunch

Our two new water tanks are now up on their stands waiting to have pipes connected. The guys ared on their 5th whole looking for the existing pipes to join onto. Soon we will have a much better supply of water all 5000 litres extra yay!!!

This might not sound to exiting to most peoople, but thismorning we had the stove, the kettle and the toaster on all at the same time for the first time since we got here. It did not even slow the motor in the fridge down.

This has to be the best news yet, the only thing that will top this is Children in the houses!!! (Susan)

progress at church and school

Kid's club.

Yesterday at Church ther was a baptism service where over 30 people were baptised, two were children from our feeding program.!

We noticed a lack of children around today, when we asked Maria where her boys were we found out that schools re opened today. We didn't know if teachers got thier pay rise but the kids are in school which is just fantastic.

Dion and Roderick

We have heard that at least 2 boarding schools have been quarantined due to suspected swine flu. One of them is where pastor Makoni's daughter Shalom is. Please be praying for all students and staff.

This kids got a future!

Children waiting in line for their porridge

All over Harare there are children begging for $4 school fees. Sadly you can't trust that's where it is going so we don't normally give them anything. This week however Dion meet a young girl who had made the most adorable windmills out of plastic, wife and straws as a way of raising $'s. It was nice to see a young person working towards their school fees rather than asking for a hand out. So, now we have a really cute blue and yellow windmill.!

Witchcraft and other stuff

First another apology from Susan. I've had a bit of a week and some of the following messages were sent to me on Monday and here it is Thursday and I'm only just getting around to blogging them. Sorry to those of you who are using this to keep up with Bek and Dion's adventures, but some times even mums get a bit overwhelmed with life.

There is a lot of witch carft in Aftica and it's not uncommon at church to see someone being delivered from a demon. This Sunday however we watched this take place with a young girl a about 11 years who we love heaps. Keep praying for this country, the devil has such a strong grip on it and it desperately needs God.

We had a potential water crisis this week. We had no water all day Saturday so Sunday we mentioned it, the guys checked the boar pump, it was not pumping, eeek! after some more investiging they found a large leak 1 of the pipes and it was quickly fixed. Disaster avoided - praise God.

Today (14th Sept) marks 6 months since we left Brisbane. We recieved a wonderful gift to celebrate the occasion ... 2 boxes of vegies! They were actualy donated for the lunch program from a wonderful white couple who live in Chivhu. We have met a few 'murungu' now who call Chivhu home and have been invited to join them four morning tea sometime and meet some more.

Blessings come in different ways.

Its been a quiet week for us, we have taken a few mornings off. This morning I (Bek) went for a walk, on the way I was greeted by every 2nd person which is a normal thing now. As I was walking and thinking how great God has been to us I again heard my name. This time I looked up 2 see about 20 children running towards me yelling out my name. I just smiled and thought that all the sacrifices we have made to be here are so totally worth it.

You know you have been away from home too long when you find yourslef saying 'what do we call that in Australia?" LOL

Vana Sponsership

The Vana Sponsorship program is up and running and 3 of the childrne recieved their first letters this week. They loved reading them and replying 2 them. Many of the children are now asking us when their lettersw are going 2 chome. Visit the vana website if you are interested in helping one of our amazing awsome children.