Since returning from furlough in January 2009, we have made (we think) nine more trips to [Lomweland in Mozambique] to conduct hut-to-hut evangelical and development surveys, prayer walk/drive, meet chiefs and other community leaders and show this area to Lomwe church leaders from other areas where the gospel is well-established. Everyone who has seen the area is in agreement — much of Pebane District has little access to the gospel, and a missionary needs to move there. Numerous surveys have not found a single born-again believer.
In addition, the area is rapidly being lost to Islam. The Lomwe church leaders from our current ministry area who have accompanied us on multiple vision trips have unselfishly urged us to move to this new area where the people are spiritually hungry but have nobody to share “words from God’s book” with them.
We have spent the last year and a half studying Portuguese (as a springboard to learning eLomwe later) while we continued ministering in Chichewa, and we have met the minimal language requirements needed in order to move. Now we just need to find a rental house, then build a bush house. Please pray
- that we will all see exactly what the Lord desires to show us.
- that we will have favor with community leaders.
- that our communication will be clear.
- that our trucks will be mechanically and structurally sound.
- that we will develop a clear understanding of what God wants us to do first in this new area.
- that we find a rental house in Pebane town, so that we can at least begin work in the area while searching for funding and a team capable of building a solar-powered house in the deep bush.
Many of you have met “The Beast” (our assigned mission truck, a 1999 Nissan Patrol). After driving the Malawi-licensed Patrol these past 11 years, we’ll be assigned a different mission vehicle because we’ll be working full time in Mozambique. We thank you again for your faithful giving through the Cooperative Program and Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. Your giving purchased “The Beast” back in 1999 and will also provide our next assigned mission vehicle.
Some of you will notice that the timing of this big shift in our ministry coincides with Daniel (our last born) leaving for college in the U.S. Daniel plans to leave from Blantyre airport in Malawi on June 19, arriving in Atlanta and then on to Auburn June 20. His Camp War Eagle orientation session begins June 27. He did not identify a roommate to request by name, so please join us in prayer for his assigned roommate for fall.
Bob and Pam Brownfield
Thyolo, Malawi
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