My 1st ever letter from Brandon

I miss you too Brandon. I like Africa a lot. I am feeling fine, thank you for asking. I love you too!
Love from Africa,
Grammy

Trip to Forest for Timbers

A day with a lot of small details that held us up, this is how a day goes in Mzuzu. We left the house at 7am to go to the forest to get timbers for main building at HESED House Village.

1^st small detail we had to get gas but we had no money. Waited for the bank to open at 8 and went and cashed a check for Samuel and filled out paper work for my money gram from Faith Chapel. I had to leave my passport and they said I could come back at 9am.
8:30 We left to go wait for Florence to bring Samuel his cell phone then left to get gas. There wasn’t any gas so Samuel decided to make the 1^st of 3 trips he had planned for the day to get the timbers. He was going to find gas on the return trip.
9:00 We arrived at forest, maybe 20 miles out of town. Samuel paid for the 300 timbers we need but found out we would need to go deep into the woods so we had to return to Mzuzu to find gas. Samuel had left the gas money with Florence so she could purchase it ahead of us and we could just go get it. That didn’t work. We found gas but had to wait for Florence to meet us with the other work truck and the money.
10:00 Then we went to bank again to get more money for Florence and to pick up my money gram that should have been ready, it wasn’t and it took us an hour to get it. Thank you Faith Chapel for your donations.
11:00 Head back to forest but encountered a speed trap and had to pay 3000MWK, that’s only about $12.00. We got back to forest and found some men had already started cutting timbers for us but they were the wrong ones. We needed bigger and stronger wood. We had to take the workers further, much further down the road and then very, very deep into the forest. I think we drove over 2 mountains to get back to where the gum wood was. We were traveling on a dirt road all the way winding up and down the mountains. After that ride in I was laughing about the U-Haul truck ride I had once to California that I thought was rough ride. I can’t begin to tell you how difficult that ride was for the truck. It stalled about 4 times on the way in and I had to get out so they could lift the cab and spray started fluid in engine.
12 noon they started cutting timbers we had 4 workers with us. By 4:00 we had to leave because it would be dark in an hour and we needed an hour to back out to the main road. On the way out we were held up by a truck with a flat tire and no way to drive around him.
5:30 we made it to the orphanage with the timbers and unloaded them. We had 67 timbers. We will need to make at least 2 more trips back into the forest tomorrow.

Small details is our slogan here everything is just small details, God is in control.

At Last I have a picture of the Home for our Orphans

If only you could see the hill top this house ( Faith Chapel's House )and HESED House Village is located on. It brings me great joy to see it and stand on this ground. When we were driving up Samuel said there is Churchville....I was almost crying with excitement. This is a photo that does not do the surroundings justic.

Our 1st Widow that will care for our orphans

 

 This afternoon we went to meet the widow that will be in our house. She sounds perfect for the job. Loves kids, couldn't have any of her own but has raised many other children who lost thier parents. She is 55 yrs. old and loves Jesus. She is the person everyone in the village comes to when thier children are sick. Since you have meet my friends, Bishop Samuel Mkisi is standing next to the widow and Pastor Duncan is behind us.

 

 

 

Glory Gas!

I arrived at the airport Friday at 1:30pm (7:30am N.Y. time) and Bishop Samuel was there to pick me up. After getting my bags and loading the car I found out there was a small problem, no gas at the gas stations and his tank was below empty. I prayed and texted home for Kelly to pray. She said the car would keep going on Glory gas and it did. We drove for close to an hour before finding some boys with bottles of gas. Praise God, but if we had stopped to pray before buying the gas God may have told us not thiers because we only drove 1 more block before we saw a gas station that had gas and they weren't charging double.
I  read Psalm 48 this morning in verse 14 it says "For God is our God forever and ever;he will be our guide even to the end." Guide is the key word here, if you are looking for guidance look to God and his Word.

Why did God call me to Africa!

I know why, I am bringing prosperity and abundance blessings .Where ever I set my feet the Holy Spirit will be; blessing others.
" Things always work out for me. Everything that I do prospers and I have abundance in Jesus' name."
Praises and Thank You Jesus for your blessings!

OOHHH!

7 days before I leave for Malawi.
 And for the next 5 days I will be busy with Faith Chapel's Annual Tent Meeting. Come and join us at 125 Bromley Road, Churchville. Friday and Saturday night 7 p.m. till....we all leave. And then Sunday at 10 a.m. Big Tent Big Weekend. Alot of music, worship and Christians. Check us out @ http://faithchapelofchurchville.com/  up coming events.