Aerial view of Pemba, situated on a peninsula by a large, deep bay

Our main Pemba base, the "Village of Joy," from the air

Flying over one of many beautiful islands near Pemba in the Indian Ocean

Worship on Sunday morning at our Pemba church

Poor and elderly community ladies at the altar

A happy girl at one of our community centers

Opening presents on Children's Day in Mieze

A joyful young girl in our Iris family

A missions school student in prayer and worship at Mieze

Teaching children under our tent at a bush conference

Feeding hundreds of village children at our bush conference at Mieze

Hungry children lining up for food, so rare and exciting

Our Mozambican worship team dancing up a storm at our Mieze conference

Leading worship and dance at Mieze

More exuberant, expressive African dance/worship

Worship at our Mieze conference

Listening intently to teaching at our Mieze conference

Meeting God at the altar

Behind the scenes in the kitchen at our large Mieze conference

Affectionate kids, friends in dirt and poverty

Mieze villagers around our new outreach tent

Crowds coming to our regional conference at Mieze

Gathering at the door of our new Mieze church

Mieze ladies in conference

Listening intently at Mieze

Sober, concentrated approval in conference

Mieze boys, participating in conference at full attention

Lost in reverent prayer

Worship, in full colorful Mozambican dress

Pastor Frans, who was raised from the dead

The dedication of our new Mieze church

Transporting our missions school students to the bush!

A very cheery missions school meeting in our African gazebo

Part of our "Village of Joy" Pemba base, home to many hundreds of staff, students and children

Our "Village of Joy" church in worship

Community lady lost in prayer

Missions school girl praying for a local community believer

Missions school student loving on a local believer in prayer

Local church lady, filled with faith and joy in the Holy Spirit

Joy after church on Sunday in Pemba!

A class with Heidi in missions school

Boy doing flips in a competition at one of our monthly beach birthday parties

View from one of our nearby islands off Pemba

Speaking to a night crowd of villagers while preparing for the Jesus Film

Heidi hearing the testimony of a boy totally deaf for many years, completely healed after Jesus appeared to him in the night

Missions school student signing the palms of eager village kids

Heidi stopping to witness to a village Moslem elder while on way to baptism!

Walking through the village to a baptism in a water hole out in the bush

On the dirt path to our baptism in the bush

Water is rare in our province, but this beautiful remote pond made a great baptismal tank!

A black village boy and a white missionary kid coming together in the bush

Helping an elderly bush lady out of the water after her glorious baptism

A child grinning with joy at her baptism

Our village boy being baptized who was healed of deafness the night before after being visited by Jesus