Worship in the House

Iris Chimoio children have worshiped God, studied the Bible and prayed together for years in their home. Now the local and Provincial pastor in Manica is starting to lead church services for young and old in study room.

We had planned on opening up the meeting room to start church for a special Resurrection Service, but the wind storm last month changed that plan.

Still a group of kids and adults came together this Sunday to worship the Lord!

They understand how weather can affect lives because many of them are asking God to help them through a season that didn’t produce a harvest. I’m talking about food. Lots of people near the children’s center plant corn or maize for their family’s food stores. Unfortunately the rains coming too late have dried up the last season harvest. The wind storm has damaged lots of houses, and caused people to lose what little food they had stored.

We know how much we need to trust God for everything! In these moments we can look to our sad circumstances, or look to heaven and trust God for his promise in our lives! It’s amazing to see what God is doing and run towards him!

Beautiful smiling, dancing, laughing friends of ours came together to worship God for what he has done! He saved many lives when the storm was very dangerous. We are so grateful for a loving God. For now there is worship in a small room. It’s great because this room was kept safe and sound. We will be tenacious. We will rebuild. We will re-roof the boys house, and keep worshiping our good God who knows who loves to love us. We trust God for his provision. We trust God for miracles and faith and courage!

Good friends care about the things that we care about

I know it’s important to talk about because one of my dearest missionary friends was chatting with me and asking for updates about our roof in Chimoio. I looked on-line to see when I posted about the beautiful new roof being bent over and stripped off of half of one of our buildings.

I’m not excited to post about sad things, however sometimes the truth is sad. I’m not afraid to weep with those who weep. That said, it not easy to ask for friends and family to weep with me, but it isn’t fair to pretend that all is well with my heart when it’s still pretty broken. We have had beautiful friends and family rally around giving, praying, working and encouraging us to keep going! Rebuild! More precisely –Re-roof. We still have needs. If your heart is moved to be generous than shoot me an email. The link to email us is on both our Ministry webpages :

http://www.irisglobal.org/chimoio/contact-us

www.facebook.com/IrisChimoioRiverOfGodChildrensCenter/

So here it is the link to my Journal post in the Iris Chimoio Journal.

http://www.irisglobal.org/chimoio/journal/fresh-bread-from-heaven

It talks a little bit about how I faced this tragic destruction at the chidlren’s center by sitting with Jesus, and even rejoicing! None of our kids were hurt when a terrible wind and rain storm ripped half of the roof up, off and over the building. I was seriously overcome with gratitude, and at the same time a tenacity to see the boys home repaired!

Our team is ‘gung ho’ to go forward. We need to purchase new heavier material. We have some of the funding in, we have a ways to go for the heavier material and new wood for the carpentry.

We’re so blessed by the sacrifices friends and family are making. We love reading the emails telling how people are moved to get involved, get connected, and give!

We are so blessed by our really big, really International family!

Lots of love from,

Missionary Momma Mia….