TOP LEFT: Heidi and I by our Cessna 206 in Malawi, surrounded by pastors and children, all thrilled by our visit and fascinated by our flying machine.
TOP RIGHT: Even the smallest children were softened and convicted by the Holy Spirit, and repented in the heat and dust with everyone else.
BOTTOM RIGHT: Heidi praying for pastors and country peasants, all crying out to God and getting richly and deeply filled with His Spirit.
BOTTOM LEFT: With one heart and voice these leaders among the poor of Malawi seek and worship the King.
LEFT CENTER: Heidi teaching pastors out of the Book of James, before inviting the Holy Spirit to fall on them in power. The whole crowd of believers, standing behind the pastors, all came before the Lord and tasted His overwhelming Presence. May He be with and continuously empower His people for His glory in this remote place.

Rolland E. Baker
8 September 2000

TOP LEFT: Randy Clark with Heidi and Pastor Stephen Lai, sitting with a powerful witch doctor and his female companion just outside our Chimoio conference meeting. For years this man was known and feared across central Mozambique for his evil powers, but this night he renounced his past, gave his life to Jesus, and is here burning fetishes, drugs and everything else he used to do his witchraft. The girl was a mute and hadn't said a word in six years, but she found Jesus too during this meeting, was healed and suddenly began to speak again.
TOP RIGHT: Our last Bible school graduating class, outside our still unfinished dining/meeting hall. Our current class is almost twice as big, and our classrooms are overflowing. Our pastors are starving for Bible knowledge.
RIGHT CENTER: Our pastors in Chimoio at a conference meeting, throwing themselves on the altar and crying out to God, who is transforming them on the inside for the work of saving a nation.
RIGHT BOTTOM: Krista Burgher, formerly a short-term volunteer with us and now working for Randy Clark, with two of our treasures at our Zimpeto center.
BOTTOM CENTER: Heidi praying for a pastor at our ordination service at the end of our Bible school term. Each one is presented with a graduation certificate and a gift, and then we all seek the Lord for an increasingly wonderful outpouring of His Spirit. This was an intense day as we all were deeply moved and shaken by God's heart for Mozambique.
BOTTOM LEFT: Pastor Angel and Pastor Bia, who were called by God in visions to go to neighboring provinces and preach the Gospel. They were supernaturally led to our conference by a vision of a star over our meeting place (see Randy Clark testimony in separate email). Needing a church group to operate under, they have joyfully and excitedly become a part of our family of pastors and evangelists.

Rolland E. Baker
8 September 2000

FAMILY CHRISTMAS PHOTO

My wife Heidi, my daughter Crystalyn and I are seated in our backyard at our Zimpeto center, surrounded by a few of the more than seven hundred children we take care of here. These children are around us all the time, laughing, playing, goofing off, and often wanting to help in some way or pray for us. Heidi and I are "Mama Aida" and "Papa Rolland" to them all.
Each one has a powerful story to tell about how Jesus rescued them from a drastically terrible background. Their testimonies make all our work worthwhile, and fill us with powerful encouragement.
Davidinho is the boy in the lower left corner, wearing a blue shirt and grinning at the camera. A year ago he contracted both cerebral malaria and meningitis and went into a coma for a week. The doctors were sure he was going to die. He regained consciousness and partially recovered, but was left severely brain damaged. For months he couldn't walk or talk, and would just groan and grind his teeth with no expression. He had been so photogenic, and was the darling of our children's center and all our visitors. Our staff grieved over him, and constantly soaked him in prayer. Many around the world who had known him prayed too. Then some of our children came to us saying they had seen Davidinho perfectly healed in visions, and they told us not to worry. Davidinho began to crawl slowly, and soon he could stand up. About a week after the children had these visions, Heidi saw Davidinho smile, and she cried, knowing he would make it. Today he is completely well, alert, laughing and back to his wonderful self. Jesus is GOOD!

Rolland E. Baker
29 December 2000

TOP LEFT: Heidi is walking and singing with some of her good friends at the "bocaria," Maputo's city dump. We hold church in this dump each week, and hundreds gather each time to seek and worship God, often weeping on their faces in the dirt. We have brought many bocaria children to live at our center in nearby Zimpeto, and truck many more to our center's regular church meetings. The desperate, violent, sick and dying all scavenge here to stay alive, but Jesus the Good Shepherd is finding them and bringing them to safety in His heart!
TOP RIGHT: This is Joel, whom we wrote about in our Christmas news. His father was killed in Mozambique's civil war, and his mother died of cerebral malaria. We found him hungry and beat up on the streets near the border between Mozambique and South Africa, and took him in. Recently he contracted a serious form of malaria himself, but he was instantly healed when a tall, shining angel appeared to him in a vision and touched him. I was so moved to see him get excited and his eyes get big as he described his vision to us. Many other children have had such visions, and their behavior and lives are changed into monuments of God's grace.
BOTTOM RIGHT: At every meeting we invite our children to continue to meet with the Lord at our simple cement altar, and they always pour forward with a glorious hunger. Here Heidi is praying her heart out with them as they press on!
BOTTOM LEFT: Here is one of many shacks at the dump where the poorest of the poor are living. So far we have helped to build about thirty new reed houses for our neediest new believers in this community, along with a simple structure that serves as our meeting place — one of our favorite churches in the whole world. Many visiting speakers and teams have ministered with us in this dump, and all have been moved by the presence of the Holy Spirit in this least likely place. Heidi saw Jesus walking across the rubbish here, handing out beautiful garments and inviting the children to sit at the head table with Him at His feast!

Rolland E. Baker
2 January 2001

TOP LEFT: Here is our Bible school's last graduating class. Our next will have about one hundred fifty pastors, all incredibly hungry to know Jesus and the Bible better. These pastors are already fervent preachers, enduring great hardships for the sake of the Gospel. Their joy and faith are utterly miraculous. They pray their hearts out, and have been laboring hard with us to distribute food and serve in every practical way possible in addition to studying in school.
TOP RIGHT: Our children are still poor, but they are rich in joy!
BOTTOM RIGHT: Ever since Heidi and I left to minister overseas in foreign countries, we have longed to see the weakest, neediest and most vulnerable of people touched and saved by Jesus. Now it is so exciting to see these hundreds and hundreds of orphaned and abandoned children listen attentively to the Good News!
BOTTOM LEFT: LeSEA Global Food for the Hungry sent us food by ship to Maputo harbor, and now we are involved in the massive job of distributing the food to the remote interior of Mozambique over terrible roads with 25-ton trucks like this. Here we are loading up at our Zimpeto center for a trip to the central city of Beira, two days' drive to the north. Flooding has returned to Mozambique during this rainy season, and huge areas of farmland along the Zambezi River are now inundated. In other places people are walking for days for a bite to eat, but their location is politically sensitive and we have to be very careful in approaching them. The poor need food all over Mozambique, and we are intensely grateful to all who help.
LEFT CENTER: Here our children are praying for our graduating pastors. God hears these children, and does wonderful things through their hearts and hands. People have begun sending them prayer requests from all over the world, and we ourselves ask them to lay hands on us.
CENTER: Our Cessna 206 aircraft — in the background here — has become a necessity in ministering across this huge country to more than five hundred churches. It takes eight days by road with a four-wheel-drive truck to journey to the northernmost towns from Maputo, but only an afternoon in the Cessna. In this picture we have stopped on an island off the coast on our way back to Maputo from a conference in Beira, and discovered a community that had never heard the name of Jesus. In minutes these children were singing and wanting to know all about Him. Village

Rolland E. Baker
3 January 2001

Here are two aerial pictures from one thousand feet up that show the Zambezi River overflowing onto huge areas of land that are normally farms and villages. Rain comes and goes daily, and the river is still rising. About 400,000 people are displaced or cut off from food and necessary supplies.
On the upper right is a boy I photographed at the Chupanga camp right at the edge of the flood. It's beautiful and tranquil — and dangerous. One lady and her baby were eaten by a crocodile in her hut along the river near Marromeu while we were there.
On the lower left is a typical camp scene at Chupanga. Clean water is scarce, and the river water is undrinkable. Everyone tries to gather firewood, and cooking the raw, unmilled maize that comes in limited quantities by tractor is difficult.
On the lower right is our Cessna 206, which we use heavily to transport people, food, equipment and fuel.

Rolland E. Baker
28 March 2001

ZAMBEZI MINISTRY

Upper left: We couldn't take pictures during the huge evening meeting in the rain and dark, but here's Heidi, Pastor Rego and Kurt Erickson praying for the crowd at our first meeting in Marromeu.
Left center: Heidi is with a lady who came forward to tell us Jesus just healed her deafness. Others were healed and the news spread quickly all around the town until thousands more came that night.
Bottom left: These children crowding our little platform are responding to a call to give their lives to Jesus.
Top right: Pastor Surpresa, our national director, is praying for the sick at the Chupanga camp. Both he and Pastor Rego have been used by God to raise the dead.
Bottom right: Heidi is teaching at Pastor Rego's mud hut church in Dondo. At her feet are many of the new orphans recently brought in by the church.

Rolland E. Baker
28 March 2001