Malova

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We had a good few days with our outreach events in the little village of Xigiane, with around two hundred local people coming along in the evening, and around ten new Christians in to our first Sunday service. Our heart is to plant these small churches in areas where it would be otherwise difficult for the local people to get to a church to hear the gospel and receive good teaching.
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We are now in the middle of building our next church plant in Malova, near Massinga. It's a beautiful area about ten kilometers out of town in a very rural setting. We are camping out this week with the locals, there is no electricity here or running water, and our food is cooked on the open fire. It's a beans and rice and maize meal tonight, which is great, but I find myself longing for the occasional bacon sandwich!
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These lovely people are hungry for the gospel. The presence of God was especially strong last night, many responded to the invitation to receive Christ, and it was great to see the people meeting with him in a real way.
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Our worship time later continued till late on into the night as the people danced. It is becoming increasing difficult to close the evening meetings as the people want more and more, and don't want to go home.
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One elderly man who had been working in a South African mine underground, and for thirty years had been suffering with a chest problem. He announced this morning that God had healed him as he yielded his life to Christ last night !!
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We are continuing with our evening meetings tonight and tomorrow, whilst the building is going up during the day. We finish our week with our opening service on Sunday morning. This time Zito, another of our trainee pastors, will be looking after this church. It is on his land we are building the church.
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Zito has a great heart for the people in his community, and already has a number of new believers that he is looking after. Please join us, and pray for us, as we continue our work.
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Thank you so much, and God bless. Peter and Armindo
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