The need is great but the Nets are few...got rocks thrown at us because people wanted to see their children saved too and we didn't have enough to hand out!
We have given out our last nets and there are so many people angry at us because they didn't receive one. If we had 100.000 nets it wouldn't have been enough for the area of Terra Vermelha (red dirt) where we were working. The good news is that there were MANY souls saved today. They are so open to listen to the story of God's love for them and when they pray they do it from the depths of their hearts. The Baptist pastor from that area accompanied us and in his testimony yesterday afternoon said that he had felt very encouraged by the way we shared Christ's love and that he had actually learned a lot from the team. Pray for him, Pastor Joao Tuto, who has a monumental job to do right there. He took down the names of those who were praying to receive Christ and promised to go visit them.
Wednesday night we had the opportunity of meeting some of our IMB missionaries and had an American meal (we've been eating boiled bananas and peanuts every day for lunch because that is what they eat)! Luckily the power didn't go out until the food was cooked so we got to enjoy a candlelight dinner. The missionary was trying to decide whether to open the door and let the air in so we wouldn't smother or keep the door closed and the mosquitos out--we kept the mosquitos out :0)!!! Scott Mcainey told us about a near-death experience awhile back when he contracted malaria. The village people thought he had died and had a funeral for him. He did live and sent word back to them because if he showed up in person they would think he was Lazarus!!!
It has been a humbling experience to put it mildly! No words will ever convey to you the poverty and the need of this people. However, they keep smiling and trying. We white people scare them to death and that has been humbling. Some of the children cry when they see us because a local cult church tells them that white people are of the devil and will eat their young.
We are so different and interesting to them that they throng around us touching our arms, feeling our hair, and stare at us like something from another planet. We have literally hundreds of kids following us everywhere so we've used those opportunities to teach them songs, tell them bible stories and just show them God loves them!
Today we will have a closing ceremony with the local authorities. We are somewhat concerned about the big black pot with boiling water they've prepared for us (just kidding)!
We love you and have definitely felt your prayers. Keep praying. We have today's activities and two days of travelling ahead of us.
Your Angolan Team...
Bob, Leslie, Norm, Dave and Charlotte
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Your letters remind me of why I am involved with His Nets as public health advisor: "We cannot do everything, and that realization enables us to do something - and to do it very well! It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way - an opporortunity for the Lord's grace to enter and do the rest" - Archbishop Oscar Romaro (El Savador, martyred). God bless you all for being the presence of Christ in Angola and as you return home.
Hello Bob, Norman, David, Charlotte and Leslie, May God bless your every step as you finish your mission in Angola and head home. We will continue to pray for you until we see your precious faces again for ourselves. My heart aches for you that you were stoned because your resources were too few. But my heart is full because you took the Gospel "into all the world." May Jesus follow behind you and multiply your work by ten thousand. Love you guys - Cheryl Mize
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