2018 NYAC VIM Mozambique: Worship of God, Praise for God's Creation

Sunday, April 22
Pastor Alex da Silva Souto, New Milford UMC, writes:

Sunday is the day of the LORD so we got up very early, packed the car and headed back to the Dondo church for worship celebration.


The road from Dondo to Gorongoza has some really challenging stretches… but riding in an air conditioned vehicle is nothing to complain about… especially compared to so many people walking  for long distance and many doing it bare foot.


We got to Gorongoza just in time to go on a visit of a special part of this nature sanctuary.  We spotted lots of baboons, impalas, waterbucks, owls, and some lovely zebras.
We had an early dinner and early night so we can be up by a 6am visit to the flood plains in another part of the park.

God's creation is really amazing!

2018 NYAC VIM Mozambique: The Joys of a Youth Conference

Saturday, April  21

Annette Griffith of Evergreen United Methodist Church writes:

We passed the halfway mark on our mission trip and have accomplished many of our fact finding goals.

Today we visited the Dondo orphanage and saw the new, beautiful, clean and functional buildings. The Assistant to the Bishop, Rev. Jacob Jenhuro was waiting at the orphanage for new furniture to arrive.

From there we went to the house of the Dondo pastor for a wonderful lunch prepared by the ladies of the church.  We were greeted by singing children who were excited to be moving soon to their new accommodations.  They will be moving sometime next week.

While we were there the youth of local United Methodist churches were having a youth conference.  They ran the meeting themselves and were glad to be discussing the work of the church.  It was a pleasure to see so many youth involved.

After lunch Pastor Alex presented the United Methodist Women with two suite cases with clothing for the orphanage and then everybody got lollipops.

Tomorrow we will be back at the Dondo church for an early service before leaving for Gorongosa National Park.  We ended the day with shopping for food for our journey and went back to the guest house for dinner and an early bedtime so that we could get up and out by 8:00 AM on Sunday morning.

Peace be with you,