Teaching almost three hundred students at Harvest School, African style!

Family lunch on the floor in our "cafeteria"

Our Western students learn to eat like nationals

Lost in worship at Harvest School graduation

We have many true worshipers

At peace in deep worship among our Bible school students

His Presence is strong at graduation

Filled with power and glory during graduation

Paddling out to our boat in a dinghy from a remote village on outreach

Sunset at a fishing village in Africa

The village welcoming party on the beach as we arrive on outreach

A fisherman and his boat in the dreamy Indian Ocean

Heidi and her treasures on the village beach

Our boat and the calm evening sea behind our new friends at Londo, Cabo Delgado

Getting to shore over the reefs by dinghy from our power boat

Village mamas entertained by our Gospel skits in a dim church hut at night

Village girls paying close attention to our stories and dramas

Mama with her child enraptured by our contextualized rendition of the Gospel

Taking in the Gospel in the poorest of poor surroundings

Teaching and showing films in a little tin-roof church we built for the village

Listening very intently to the Good News

Mama and an African treasure

Hungry, open and listening

Every child needs love

Awarding prizes to young students at our new village school

We have a baptism at every outreach when there is water nearby

Many thousands in the "unreached" Makua tribe have now been baptized

Cooling off in the Indian Ocean after a hot day of ministry

Flying into a new village for another fruitful outreach

Heidi greeting a thrilled crowd of kids with her Gospel puppet

Villagers gathered on a rise watching our airplane arrival

Ladies gathered to watch the foreigners arrive, eager with anticipation

Heidi is always a hit at new villages with her puppet

Crowds always gather tightly around our team Land Rovers

On arrival the first item of business always is to make friends

African color and basic transportation of goods

African big sky over another dry, remote village ready and hungry for Good News

Evening shadows approach in the bush where we will begin another missions frontier outreach

Bush children cannot get enough of seeing their own photos

Children in the dirt can be utterly delightful

Hundreds respond to the Gospel in the dim light of a typical Iris village outreach

Heidi preaching with children typically crowded in the front

Antonio, center, 12 years old, deaf and dumb from an early age, known by the whole village, now healed!

Serving spaghetti and tuna fish in the dark after a late night village meeting

Yet another Harvest School encampment in the bush

Mama Heidi in her tent with her very excited kids

Slow, routine village life for women in the bush

Girls in their typical village environment

Our missions team preparing tea, coffee, jam and bread for breakfast in the bush

Children and the elderly have little to do in their dirt-poor surroundings

Showing children their pictures is always a joy for visitors

Team members sharing with village chiefs who have come to Jesus

Teaching and praying with village chiefs and elders

Village ladies excited to get attention from loving, friendly foreigners

Mothers and children of Africa in their plain, dry, brown, poor world

Fresh, excited, joyful missions students on the first day of a new school session

A young African face, one of "the least of these" that Jesus died for

Such a typical scene: Heidi leading children through a village with so much love

Heidi teaching Harvest School, another lesson in laid-down love

Heidi visiting the poor in their bush houses, always bringing life and joy to young and old

Harvest School students, thinking, laughing and loving all at once

No "Toys R Us" in Mozambique, so the children make their own out of anything

Children lining up for lunch at our village outreach

Beans and rice for everybody, a real treat that we provide at every visit

Crowds always greet us when we land at dirt bush strips for outreaches

This is Thanksgiving Dinner at our Village of Joy base cafeteria in Pemba, Africa-style

Foreigners and Mozambicans all celebrating Thanksgiving together with all the food they can eat

Thanksgiving pies of all kinds, a new cultural experience for Mozambicans!

Happy missions students distributing food and dessert to the multitudes on Thanksgiving Day!

Our Pemba Village of Joy kitchen, cooking for our huge family

Sitting down to Thanksgiving Dinner, Pemba-style

Fernando, one of our sons and a worker in the kitchen, who was taken to heaven in visions

Our beach in Pemba, Africa, a remote blend of great poverty and beauty

Rest and peace in soft light and rich color during African church

Our students lose themselves in continuous worship

White and black staff weep and worship together

Total love for the unloved and abandoned

A Harvest School missions team praying before setting out on an extended outreach

Pastors departing in an Iris truck full of supplies for an extended outreach

Heidi sending off a missions team on a ten-day village outreach

Heidi's and my Christmas photo with a sampling of our Pemba Iris family

The rich colors of the poor, seeking God in prayer on Sunday morning in Pemba

A study in sleepy rest on a dirty floor in church on a sultry, soggy, stuffy summer day in Pemba

An African lady in deep prayer on Sunday morning

Foreign students in prayer in Africa, deep in His Presence

Poor, half-blind and desperate, but reaching out for Jesus

A Pemba mama, intently listening in church

Africans faces in church, rich in color, variety, hungry and receiving

Lost in worship through African rhythm

Rich African color among the poor seeking God together on Sunday morning

A happy African baby happily responding to the guy with a camera

Poverty, color, humility and earnest prayer all in one photo

Richest African color and deepest desire for God

A typical picture at Pemba church: bright African colors lined up at the altar seeking Him together

Community mamas at church on Sunday pressing in for more; the hungry will be fed!

A picture of pure, intense, solemn prayer in His Presence

Feet! Poor and worn, carrying the hungry, needy and empty-handed before the Lord

Graduation Day for our largest Harvest School ever, now spreading out around the world

Even foreign missions students learn African rhythm as we all worship together

Heidi at Harvest School and Bible School graduation in Pemba, a time of fiery love, power and joy