Final day in Luanda

Dearest Prayers,

Today was a day of celebration of all that has transpired over the last week.

We met the health workers, the health activists, the teachers from the school, Papa Destino, Pastor Joao and his wife Filomena, the Baptist Women's Executive Director for Angola, Joan - the British missionary who has been our hostess, and hundreds of children and adults. It was a ceremony honoring each of the groups that participated in making the past week successful. They took the time to celebrate all parties working together in the sharing of the gospel and the distribution of the Nets.

One beautiful event was a ceremonial handing of the Nets from each team member to 5 pregnant Moms carrying their baby on their backs, 5 school-age children representing the children in the community, and the reading of a letter of appreciation to our church and His Nets for their part in this ministry. It was a great time of rejoicing in God's provision for all He's done both leading up to and during the time spent here.

We made Texans out of the Health Minister of the IEBA and the Pastor of the church by presenting each of them with Lone Star State T-Shirts. Sorry, T and Don and Pastor Greg, they didn't sell any OU shirts at the Texas Bookstore!!!

After the festivities we passed out soccer balls, baseball caps and "beanie babies" to the workers who labored with us. Leslie decided to try some behavior modification with the local kids by offering candy for a piece of trash. In 30 seconds they filled a 30 gallon trash can and we were mobbed by hundreds of kids!!!!!

After leaving the clinic we went to dinner with all of the dignitaries of the Igrega Evangelica Baptista em Angola and evaluated this week's effort. The heads of the convention were very impressed and so thankful that Angola was remembered.

We ended the week following up on the family that we witnessed to our very first day. More people from the neighborhood were present so we shared the gospel again and 8 people prayed asking Christ into their lives. We had saved 8 nets for them and were able to share a suitcase of clothing we had brought with us.

Thank you for the sweet messages of encouragement and continued prayers while we've been here. Only God knows for sure but we think over 100 adults plus children prayed asking Christ to come into their lives. Continue to pray because we aren't home yet (we have to be at the airport 4 hours in advance because of the way things operate in Angola). We'll leave our rooms at 5:30 in the morning on our way to Lisbon, Newark, and Dallas. We'll arrive in Dallas at 6:00p.m. Sunday night.

See you soon!

All of our love,

Your Angolan Team
Norm, Bob, Dave, Leslie and Charlotte