lots of news

hello everyone!

So yesteday we finished building a house! Our team built a house for a family in Zwelethemba in 2 days!!!!!! The whole story is quite an act of God actually. We were planning on buying what is called a Wendy house it is a small house that a company comes and buildes for pretty cheap. However in the end we could'nt afford the house and the materials we needed to mend a house that burned down in Zwelethamba also..... so Suzy a woman on our dts remebered a place that sold sheds neaby so bought the shed took it apart and went to work to build the house ourselves. Most of us have never built a house before and none of us work in construction only like 3 of us have ever been involved in anything like it. However by the grace of God we did it!!! The family we built the house for was a family of 7 girls and two babies under 1. A boy and a little girl. The mother/granmother has Aids and is most likely not going to make it much longer. The father/grandfather just passed away in September because of AIDS. Two of the 6 sisters that live there have babies one of the girls in 22 or so and the other is 17. We felt so blessed by God to build them this house. There is no work at all in the area so only one or two of the sisters have jobs and support the whole family. Both of the babies are also sick and had really bad coughs. they were extremely grateful for thier new house however and are excited to have a clean open space to eat as a family. We also did some evangelising in the area and a few were lead to Jesus for the first time. They have no running water and share bath water everyday all 9 of them standing in a baby bath with a cloth. They also eat poridge everyday just because it's cheap and filling. We had a party for them after the building was over though and they were so happy and were singing and eating and then they sang us off....
Now we leave for Tanzania in 5 days and guess what WE ARE DRIVING THERE! So the whole trip will take between 4-6 days! However it does mean that i will get to drive through and stay in Zimbabwe and Zambia and hopefully on the way back Mozambique too! So wow by the end of the trip I will have been in 6 maybe 7 African countries; South Africa, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Mozmabique and Kenya! we are really excited about how God is and will working in us and how funny it is that we try to make plans for outreaches and God seems to always have a bit of a different plan.

Well I updated some pictures on our Photobucket so if you click the link i made to it down below a few posts ago you can all see them!

I will try to update again before I leave but in case I dont Merry Christmas and happy new year everyone I hope you are all blessed this holiday season!