Construction in Progress!

Several reconstructions are being made after the passing of Cyclone Idai. With the help of the Churches in England we are helping to rebuild rooms and bathrooms of approximately 13 PEPE ( https://www.pepe-network.org/en/ ) units here in Beira and other cities.

And building here is always a challenge, because as you know Mozambique is one of the poorest countries in the world, with over 50% of the population living on less than $ 1 a day according to the World Bank. It is a country where poverty is a major risk for children, and PEPE is a safe place where children gain knowledge and are also fed for part of the day. For one of the churches that we are helping, we are building a bathroom because what they had besides being very precarious, part of it fell with the force of the wind during the cyclone.

When visiting I heard a very interesting story: the bathrooms here are usually built outside and to the sadness of the church leadership the bathroom doors had been stolen, and now what to do? The blessing of having little is that the main resource you have is prayer, and that’s what the church did, it prayed; so one of the ladies of the church went to visit a cousin and getting there her cousin was arguing with a man about a debt so she asked what the debt was about. He said he had bought 2 doors from this man so she asked to see the doors and said he was pretty sure they were the doors that had been stolen from the church. So they called the leader from the church to confirm that the door belonged to the Church. They called the police and the man confessed that he had stolen them, and the Church managed to retrieve the bathroom doors.

Prayer must always be our first option. So I would like to challenge you to pray first for something that you might think is impossible and don’t forget, nothing is impossible for God. Pray also for Mozambique and especially for the children. We also praise God for the generosity of the churches in the United Kingdom, and for you, because you are the church and your help has transformed many people’s lives. Thank you for your generosity.