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  • Baptizing in the beautiful Indian ocean
  • A popular beauty treatment for young girls -- white facial powder from crushed seashells!
  • Digging out of the mud for hours
  • Heidi and I with Christy and Brock at their Pemba wedding celebration
  • Christy with her bridesmaids at her Pemba wedding
  • Christy with one of our treasures at her wedding
  • Child care, Mozambique-style!
  • Heidi baptizing in the ocean
  • Love and peace on this little child
  • Heidi and our kids with Paul and Cheryl Black, pastors visiting from Maryland
  • Our missions school on their faces before the Lord
  • My sister Lorena with me at our village tent compound
  • Our daughter Crystalyn with her new husband at their wedding back home in Redding, California
  • Bride and groom toasting at their Redding wedding
  • Cutting the cake in Redding
  • Crystalyn and Brock at their beach wedding celebration in Pemba
  • Giving vows on a beautiful day at our Pemba beach
  • A lot of joy at Christy and Brock's Pemba wedding
  • Our new church for 3,000, with open-air sides
  • Worship in our new church
  • A community lady bringing her burdens to Jesus
  • We have intense altar calls at every meeting
  • A young child is baptized in the ocean
  • Our Pemba coastline from 400 feet up
  • Over a river in the wilds of Africa
  • This rectangular property surrounded by a wall is our main base in Pemba, and is being developed rapidly. We call it "The Village of Joy."
  • Loading up our Land Rovers for a village outreach
  • Giving a testimony of healing at an outreach
  • A deaf mute since birth, this young man is now hearing and speaking
  • The healed deaf mute is carried on the shoulders of an excited crowd in the village
  • Our visiting team brings a tent city to the village
  • Village children love to have their pictures taken
  • Our tents contrast with the thatched mud huts of the village
  • Local village boys, in need of love and care
  • Playing with a young village girl in her torn dress
  • A visiting team member gets the children's attention with animated singing
  • Out inspecting our land for our new church
  • Our older community ladies in worship
  • Carrying her burdens to Jesus
  • Our simple but large church building filled with worshipers
  • A bundle of love and joy
  • At the altar, in great need of their Savior
  • Time well spent at the altar
  • More older ladies from the community
  • Deep in prayer
  • Bowed before the Lord, deeply in need of Him
  • Heidi with some of our joyous girls on Children's Day
18 July 2008

The Great Wedding Feast Written by Rolland & Heidi Baker

From Heidi: the Great Wedding Feast

Thank you for remembering us as we stay hidden in our beloved Mozambique. Thank you for supporting all the hungry people Jesus has asked us to feed spiritually and physically. Even though months have gone by without as much communication as I would like, it amazes me how faithful you are to this ministry. You are our family. We so appreciate your prayers, extravagant gifts for the poor, and your love.

Recently, the Lord has been speaking to me from the parable of the Great Banquet in Luke 14. I had the honor of hosting over four thousand guests at the wedding of our daughter Crystalyn Joy to Brock Human. It was a glorious, beautiful day with the sunshine shimmering on the stunning turquoise Indian ocean. Crystalyn and Brock stood under a massive bougainvillea wedding arch. The wedding was set on the beach right across from our Village of Joy. Sixty-four of our Mozambican children comprised our bridal party. They looked fabulously colorful in their blue and yellow kapelanas and African shirts. Shara, Elisha, and Marissa were fabulous sports and joined in the festivities wearing their Mozambican outfits. Rolland walked her down the sandy aisle. An ocean of our African children streamed down from the streets in their bridal procession singing joyfully. Pastor Jos

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