Dancing Saints
Dancing Saints This was not the only time we were greeting with singing and dancing! Our daily Rwandan trek took us today on another rutted dirt road to a very remote location. Our destination was the village of Karama, but our SUV couldn’t make it. The road became too steep and rutted. So we parked and […]
Giants Among Pygmies
Giants Among Pygmies Heaven’s Family’s Africa Director, Jerry Jefferson, standing beside an elderly man from the Batwa tribe in Rwanda. Batwa adults average less than five feet in height. But as my 5’2” wife likes to say, “Dynamite comes in small packages!” Today our Rwanda adventure continued with more visits to folks who are benefiting […]
A Christian Who Murdered 300 People
A Christian Who Murdered 300 People Pastor Anaclet Mangwa and his childhood friend, John Bosco, whom he led to Jesus 26 years after he murdered 300 people during Rwanda’s 1994 Genocide. You’ve likely heard of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, when Hutu extremists slaughtered Tutsis and moderate Hutus. In just 100 days, approximately 800,000 people were […]
Super Sisters!
Super Sisters! Three Rwandan kids in the village of Mareba whose lives have been improving over the past year-and-a-half. With the introduction of Farming God’s Way in their village, they no longer need to fear the annual “hunger season.” Greetings from Rwanda, East Africa, where Heaven’s Family has been serving for over a decade. Rwanda ranks 159 of […]
Some Final Photos
Some Final Photos All the new female believers in Molande Village still wear their traditional Muslim hijabs. But it is purely cultural. We found vibrant faith in Jesus in every Muslim village we visited in southern Malawi that has been reached through Farming God’s Way combined with disciple-multiplication in God’s Love Group house churches. Thanks […]
They Can’t Persecute Me! I’m a Senior Chief!
They Can’t Persecute Me! I’m a Senior Chief! Senior Chief and baby Christian, Godfrey Chidothe Today in Malawi, I learned something I never knew before. All of the rural villages in Malawi are named after the current village headman (who can be a woman). When the village elects a new headman, the village name changes […]
An Anglican Bishop Listens to His Conscience
An Anglican Bishop Listens to His Conscience At left: Heaven’s Family’s Africa Director and Farming God’s Way expert, Jerry Jefferson. At right: Bishop Charles Mithowa, wearing a vest given to him in appreciation by the government of Malawi. In 2008, Anglican bishop Charles Mithowa walked into a Presbyterian bookstore in Blantyre, Malawi, his native country. His […]
Pigs, Chickens, and Detergent
Pigs, Chickens, and Detergent This beautiful little girl, whose legs are paralyzed, is benefiting from Heaven’s Family’s ministry to special needs children in Zimbabwe One of the most precious ministries that Heaven’s Family serves in Zimbabwe is an outreach to a group of about 30 Christian families with special needs children. Most of the children have been afflicted […]
Table Banker
Table Banker Tsitsi Chitaka, age 74, sewed the colorful dress she’s wearing. She also practices Farming God’s Way and no longer suffers through the annual “hunger season.” Every day during our five days in Zimbabwe, we’re visiting Heaven’s Family-supported projects and their beneficiaries in the Dora Region. Generally speaking, Heaven’s Family funds projects in the developing world that […]
The Redemption of Ray Maposa
The Redemption of Ray Maposa Ray Maposa Today I met Ray Maposa, age 20, who was born again when he was 8. Since January, he has been attending vocational training classes at the “Space of Hope,” one of Heaven’s Family’s Christ-centered partner ministries in Zimbabwe. At the Space of Hope (SOH), during 18 months of daily classes, […]