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7 September 2008 | Living on the Edge View Newsletter »

  • Lining up at the beach for birthday cake - we celebrate birthdays once a month
  • Waiting their turn for birthday cake and a soft drink, both a very special treat
  • Birthday cake, a Lemon Twist and a kiss at the party
  • It takes a long time to pass out cake to all our kids!
  • One of our little children sinking his teeth into frosting and cake!
  • Things get messy with so much birthday cake and so many eager kids!
  • In the sand enjoying their cake and soft drink
  • Inside our new church, which can hold 3,000 people
  • Local community ladies in their colorful Sunday best
  • Holding our missions school graduation in our prayer house
  • Missions school students praying at graduation
  • Our prayer house, African-style!
  • Our Bible school pastors and students worshiping at graduation
  • Pastors dancing at graduation
  • Heidi preaching at Bible school graduation
  • Bible school students in prayer at graduation
  • Giving out rice at Bible school graduation for pastors to take home
  • The scene of the three crosses in the Jesus film showing in a village
  • Heidi preaching after showing the Jesus film in a village
  • Building a dorm for our new center in Lichinga, Niassa Province
  • A new guest house for visitors at Lichinga
  • Inside the Liching guest house
  • Missionaries, pastors and students at Lichinga
  • Praying and interceding at the site of our future prayer bowl
  • Praying for the future of revival in Niassa Province
  • An old house on our Niassa property that we will renovate
  • Making use of what we have -- an old house that we can clean out and restore
  • Meeting at our church at night in downtown Lichinga
  • Back in Pemba teaching neighbor children at our base
  • Children from our neighborhood
  • Visiting children dance with enthusiasm
  • A typical child in Pemba visiting our base, where he can get food, prayer, teaching -- and love!
  • Another neighborhood child
  • Heidi and kids playing at the beach celebrating this month's birthdays
  • One of the girls at our beach birthday celebration
  • Playing birthday games racing into the water
  • Distributing birthday gifts, here including a super in demand soccer ball
  • Distributing gifts to younger children
  • Birthday smiles
  • Pressing in for cake and drinks at a small restaurant for tourists - we are very good customers!
  • Georgian Banov fiddling at a night outreach
  • Enacting the parable of the good Samaritan, Heidi here teaching about the man who had been attacked by robbers
  • A man who has been healed of deafness
  • A team of visitors put up tents in this village, these in front of our mud hut church
  • A local village boy
  • Village children in our new church
  • Chopping up a goat with a machete for our feast
  • Preparing goat meat for cooking in the pot
  • Another view of our new church in this village
  • A happy little village girl
  • At the village center, anticipating a great feast
  • Heidi sitting with Makua ladies learning their language
  • Heidi teaching in our new church, concentrating on children here
  • Cooking goat and rice, Mozambican style!
  • Praying for pastors
  • Praying for pastors, overcome in the Spirit
  • Our commercial camp kitchen!
  • Children gathering to receive their goat and rice dinner -- very special for them
  • Pastor in center holding a precious solar-powered player that plays the New Testament in their own language
  • This solar powered NT player is tremendously in demand
  • The solar powered NT player is just the answer for pastors whose reading skills are marginal
  • Georgian Banov getting a taste of the boiled goat
  • Long lines of children, whom we feed first to make sure they don't miss out
  • Pressing in close for a very unusual special meal
  • Serving goat and rice for the children
  • Celebrating a birthday back home in Pemba