Brave visitors from abroad

This past week, one of Wolfgang's (see picture below) sponsors from Germany came to spend a week with us with his 15 year old son. Even though general manager of an international company, he pitched in every task along with us, and endured the bumpy rides to and from Kikimi and Kisenso villages. We even had a car break down on the way back from Kikimi, which took hours to fix, but they walked miles with us to find help, and then pushed the car on difficult terrain. You can see Andreas below helping prepare the food packages to be delivered the next day to the orphans. God bless them.




Patrick, our new Bible student from Brazzaville, joined us to help prepare the food packages.

Recent visit to Kikimi orphans

For our Bible study this time, the children acted out the story of the fiery furnace, where Shadrach, Meshah and Ebednego got thrown into the fiery furnace built by Nabucchednezzar, for refusing to worship his golden image. There was a part for each child and they all had great fun as they learned of the miracle the Lord did to save His children who refused to compromise.




We wanted to thank you for your prayers for little Martha, who has now fully recovered of a very close call with combined malaria and thyphoid fever. Once we build our school, we plan to also set up a well and water filter, which will help eliminate many of the water-born diseases the children often suffer from.

Dear Andreas and Marcos helped to distribute all the food packages to very thankful children. A couple of days earlier, one of our Lebanese friends had donated boxes of cookies, which made an unexpected treat to the orphans.





Pastor Theophile keeps an accurate record of each child, and of the food each one receives.

Agricultural Project Update

We were happy to see some cassava potatoes ready to be harvested, and the first pineapple almost mature.


We have been sprouting avocado seeds from our garden, which are now ready to be planted in our Kikimi field. We were able to plant about a dozen young trees.

Construction Work at Home base

The house where we live, that serves as a base for our Mission, used to be a beautiful place that got looted a few years ago and partially destroyed. The dear owner is giving us two years of free rent, to make it possible for us to fix it up. Much had already been done when we arrived in May, but we still have quite a bit of work to do, including rebuilding some of the rooms and bathrooms.