December 2009

Is it December already? It’s hard to remember that its December when its warm and sunny outside and everything is growing like gangbusters.

It has been a busy time and lots of things have been going on.

We had a blessed Yearly Meeting with about 150 delegates from churches attending. Lon Fendal taught on listening to God’s voice in the decision making process. We had a number of tough decisions to make and the clerk stopped a number of times to just listen to God in prayer. After a time of listening there were new ideas, and the decisions flowed smoothly. We sensed God leading us during this time.

Dave and Brad made a Disipling for Development Film featuring lives that are changing in the Cyangugu district. Its an hour long (and in Kinyarwanda). We showed it one evening at Yearly Meeting and had some very positive responses from the delegates there. Many were amazed at the progress people with making in their lives even though we weren’t giving them money or project. It’s a moving film and we hope to subtitle it into English.

We are making slow buy steady progress on Ubuzima Moringa. The month of November we had the Food Health Commission come check out the Moringa. We are still waiting for the report, hoping for good news and a green light to start selling where ever we want to. We are also waiting on permission to build. Apparently there is a freeze on building in the area where we are located. We are presently appealing to the Mayor for an exception. We aren’t sure how long that might take.

Today I met with a Christian Business man who helps start businesses in Rwanda. I was encouraged as he feels he can help me connect with some people who can help me think through the next steps with the business.

Another thing we are working on these days is finding someone full time who can carry on with D for D and Ubuzima Moringa when we go on furlough next August. Pray with us that we find the right person and that the right person will be willing to lay aside other work to work for us.

Here is a picture of the Moringa field and the new fresh water well that we have on our property and share with the community. This well should have cost us $16,000 USD but instead, we ended up getting it for free. Isn't that cool?