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I am cheating a bit with the update today as this is a copy of the two week report we sent to Oasis UK:
The best address for us is: Jim and Jane Curell, Caxia Postal 92, Beira, Mozambique. All our email address’s are still the same. We are thinking of taking our retreat at the end of November, however we will let you know the exact details when it is booked. Also, we are definitely taking our holiday with the Zim team and are planning on traveling there on the 23rd December and returning on the 4th January but once again will let you know as soon as things are finalised.
Amber and Sophie are living with a family from Marina’s church who have three daughters-they are 16, 18 and 19 but the oldest is away at university at the minute. Their house is only a five minute walk away from town and they are getting on really well with the family. Rachel and Lizzy are living with a family from their church, who have one daughter, one son and a niece living with them. It is the same family that Laura and Becky stayed with a couple of years ago. Amber and Sophie have running water 24/7 (although it is cold!), but the other girls don’t so have to wash with a bucket which they are gradually getting used to! They are getting on really well with their family aswell.
Marina has been absolutely brilliant and has really helped us to settle in here, we don’t know what we would have done without her!! We feel like we’ve been here longer than two weeks, because our orientation was so detailed and we’re beginning to feel a lot more independent. We can find our way around now and know where they sell the best cakes! Or where the air conditioned buildings are! All the other Oasis Mozambique staff are great and have really made us welcome. We are finding the devotions really encouraging and relevant, and it is really nice to have a training day once a week to pray together and find out how everyone is.
We were all ill for the first week at least, all thanks to Amber! She was ill on the way over and we think it was a bug from England! Rachel was ill the longest but finally felt completely better on Monday (a week and a half after getting here!!) We are all fine now though which is really good timing as we started our work yesterday. Somehow Marina managed to escape the bug!
Lizzy and Rachel are at Fe Dos Apostolos in Vaz. They have visited it but have not been to a service there yet, as there was a big service for all the churches in the district at another place last Sunday. Their timetables are pretty full with church stuff but they are excited about it. They started their work yesterday with an English lesson which went really well and are also involved with youth group, kids clubs and evangelism. All of us are also helping with the kids groups at English Speaking Fellowship once a month. Amber and Sophie are at Apostolica Pentecoste in Munhave. They went to their first service on Sunday which was four and a half hours long, but it didn’t seem that long!! Yesterday they visited the hospital with a few members of the church, which they found quite tough as they visited the children’s ward. They will be visiting the hospital on a weekly basis to pray for people. They are also involved with kids club, PEPE, youth group and English lessons. Marina is going to try and arrange for all of us to work at Lee’s House of Blessing on a regular basis once our Portuguese lessons have finished.
Sophie is doing a great job as team accountant and has been keeping detailed reports of money spent and receipts etc. It’s a bit different to other teams as we need to split the money between the team as we are in pairs, but we are working it out. Sophie is just going through the orientation finance report with Marina and will email you this at the end of the month.
Prayer points:
Thankyou that we all got here safely and are feeling so much better now. We are all beginning to settle in and it’s feeling a bit more like home.
Rachel would like prayer for proper sleep! She keeps waking up during the night and so is tired in the day and running out of energy. She would also like prayer for learning Portuguese, as it is quite hard.
Amber is finding it hard with not being able to go out by herself, it gets a bit frustrating at times and her emotions are really crazy. Also again with the language as she is finding it difficult to pick up.
Lizzy is missing some home comforts and the no running water is getting her down a bit. Also she is feeling really emotional and her moods changing quite a lot which she is finding a bit hard to cope with.
Sophie would like to be able to build better relationships with her Mozambican sisters but is finding it quite difficult because of the language barrier.
We would all also like help with dealing with the poverty over here. It is really hard when people ask you for money and you just see how bad it is for some people.
Also for prayer as we start work, that we won’t be scared or overwhelmed but excited at new challenges that we face.
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so we have started work now which is going ok. Lixzzie and I hd our first english esson, four people showed which was a great number to start with, but we are having to re work all the lesson plans in the oasis book as they already know the basic stuff. But i is cool developing our own 'curriculum' and means that we have an excuse to visit cafe riviera lots!
Last week was a bit different as there was a surprise bank holiday on the thursday so we spent the day on the beach. It was the 20th anniversary of a president dying and they didnt announce it till four on wdnesday. so i means that we missed our poruguese lesson (shame!) but also means that we couldnt go to visit PEPE which is the pr school system run in several churches, but its all good as we get to go this thursday with sheena instead so dont have to start our other english lesson till next week, by which time we will know exactly what we are doing!!!!
Mozambique is great, nothing is done on the same timescale, so our overseer leonoradidnt show up to unlock the church till 15 mins after the lesson had started, one girl didnt arrive for an hour! And on staurday after kids club(much fun) our pastor told us that we were eating lunch at his house, so we had to text Rosa (in portuguese-go us!) and let her know w would be out for lunch and dinner.
Lizzie and I had a prope social life this weekend, Lunch with Pastor Samuel, dinner with Marinas Moz family at the house that is entirely blue inside an out, and then we spent all of yesterday with Tim and Beth, who woirk with Africa Inland mission, they picked us up at eight to go to sunday shcool at their church F.D.A in inamandima(sp?), thewn after another 4 hr service we went back to theirs for lunch, Beth and their son Johnathon had baked a great choccy pudding, that they call brown stuff, yummness.
5 MINS LEFT!!!!!
Have to go now, but please all email me, especialy if there is any big UK news, we are all suffering from ten o clock news withdrawal!!!!!!
The best address for us is: Jim and Jane Curell, Caxia Postal 92, Beira, Mozambique. All our email address’s are still the same. We are thinking of taking our retreat at the end of November, however we will let you know the exact details when it is booked. Also, we are definitely taking our holiday with the Zim team and are planning on traveling there on the 23rd December and returning on the 4th January but once again will let you know as soon as things are finalised.
Amber and Sophie are living with a family from Marina’s church who have three daughters-they are 16, 18 and 19 but the oldest is away at university at the minute. Their house is only a five minute walk away from town and they are getting on really well with the family. Rachel and Lizzy are living with a family from their church, who have one daughter, one son and a niece living with them. It is the same family that Laura and Becky stayed with a couple of years ago. Amber and Sophie have running water 24/7 (although it is cold!), but the other girls don’t so have to wash with a bucket which they are gradually getting used to! They are getting on really well with their family aswell.
Marina has been absolutely brilliant and has really helped us to settle in here, we don’t know what we would have done without her!! We feel like we’ve been here longer than two weeks, because our orientation was so detailed and we’re beginning to feel a lot more independent. We can find our way around now and know where they sell the best cakes! Or where the air conditioned buildings are! All the other Oasis Mozambique staff are great and have really made us welcome. We are finding the devotions really encouraging and relevant, and it is really nice to have a training day once a week to pray together and find out how everyone is.
We were all ill for the first week at least, all thanks to Amber! She was ill on the way over and we think it was a bug from England! Rachel was ill the longest but finally felt completely better on Monday (a week and a half after getting here!!) We are all fine now though which is really good timing as we started our work yesterday. Somehow Marina managed to escape the bug!
Lizzy and Rachel are at Fe Dos Apostolos in Vaz. They have visited it but have not been to a service there yet, as there was a big service for all the churches in the district at another place last Sunday. Their timetables are pretty full with church stuff but they are excited about it. They started their work yesterday with an English lesson which went really well and are also involved with youth group, kids clubs and evangelism. All of us are also helping with the kids groups at English Speaking Fellowship once a month. Amber and Sophie are at Apostolica Pentecoste in Munhave. They went to their first service on Sunday which was four and a half hours long, but it didn’t seem that long!! Yesterday they visited the hospital with a few members of the church, which they found quite tough as they visited the children’s ward. They will be visiting the hospital on a weekly basis to pray for people. They are also involved with kids club, PEPE, youth group and English lessons. Marina is going to try and arrange for all of us to work at Lee’s House of Blessing on a regular basis once our Portuguese lessons have finished.
Sophie is doing a great job as team accountant and has been keeping detailed reports of money spent and receipts etc. It’s a bit different to other teams as we need to split the money between the team as we are in pairs, but we are working it out. Sophie is just going through the orientation finance report with Marina and will email you this at the end of the month.
Prayer points:
Thankyou that we all got here safely and are feeling so much better now. We are all beginning to settle in and it’s feeling a bit more like home.
Rachel would like prayer for proper sleep! She keeps waking up during the night and so is tired in the day and running out of energy. She would also like prayer for learning Portuguese, as it is quite hard.
Amber is finding it hard with not being able to go out by herself, it gets a bit frustrating at times and her emotions are really crazy. Also again with the language as she is finding it difficult to pick up.
Lizzy is missing some home comforts and the no running water is getting her down a bit. Also she is feeling really emotional and her moods changing quite a lot which she is finding a bit hard to cope with.
Sophie would like to be able to build better relationships with her Mozambican sisters but is finding it quite difficult because of the language barrier.
We would all also like help with dealing with the poverty over here. It is really hard when people ask you for money and you just see how bad it is for some people.
Also for prayer as we start work, that we won’t be scared or overwhelmed but excited at new challenges that we face.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
so we have started work now which is going ok. Lixzzie and I hd our first english esson, four people showed which was a great number to start with, but we are having to re work all the lesson plans in the oasis book as they already know the basic stuff. But i is cool developing our own 'curriculum' and means that we have an excuse to visit cafe riviera lots!
Last week was a bit different as there was a surprise bank holiday on the thursday so we spent the day on the beach. It was the 20th anniversary of a president dying and they didnt announce it till four on wdnesday. so i means that we missed our poruguese lesson (shame!) but also means that we couldnt go to visit PEPE which is the pr school system run in several churches, but its all good as we get to go this thursday with sheena instead so dont have to start our other english lesson till next week, by which time we will know exactly what we are doing!!!!
Mozambique is great, nothing is done on the same timescale, so our overseer leonoradidnt show up to unlock the church till 15 mins after the lesson had started, one girl didnt arrive for an hour! And on staurday after kids club(much fun) our pastor told us that we were eating lunch at his house, so we had to text Rosa (in portuguese-go us!) and let her know w would be out for lunch and dinner.
Lizzie and I had a prope social life this weekend, Lunch with Pastor Samuel, dinner with Marinas Moz family at the house that is entirely blue inside an out, and then we spent all of yesterday with Tim and Beth, who woirk with Africa Inland mission, they picked us up at eight to go to sunday shcool at their church F.D.A in inamandima(sp?), thewn after another 4 hr service we went back to theirs for lunch, Beth and their son Johnathon had baked a great choccy pudding, that they call brown stuff, yummness.
5 MINS LEFT!!!!!
Have to go now, but please all email me, especialy if there is any big UK news, we are all suffering from ten o clock news withdrawal!!!!!!
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