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Moriel South Africa David Royle Moriel Missions Dear Friends, Greetings in the wonderful name of Jesus our Messiah and Savior. We have all had a very busy and exciting month, with me going to the UK on itinerary and also receiving friends from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. I will tell you more about this later. As usual, if you want to see pictures of the ministry associated with this newsletter then please visit our googlepage at HYPERLINK “http://morielmissionscollege.googlepages.com/ http://Morielmissionscollege.googlepages.com/ Jacobs Tour The tour begins this week, and we are very excited about having Jacob with us. It seems only five minutes since his Christmas visit, and yet the last six months have been filled with exciting things. Ebyown Children’s Home: Lettie our New Ebyown Child The last two weeks have been very busy with the visit of Manny and Kelly Mance from Pittsburgh, who came to help us acquire our new home for children with physical and mental challenges. On Sunday afternoon the house was finished, and on Sunday evening Simphiwe, Deven moved in. Today Lettie arrived, ensuring that the house is already full. Manny is a highly skilled worker and can do anything in construction. He runs his own business in Pittsburgh. Moriel wants to thank him and ask the Lord to bless him, as he had no income while on this trip and paid his own way. May the Lord bless him double. Also, Manny’s wife Marilyn had an emergency gall bladder surgery while Manny was over here, and we were in constant prayer for her. To say the least, he was quite concerned, but Marilyn came through the surgery and is recovering nicely and is relieved to have Manny back home. Thanks Manny and Marilyn and Kelly. This is a four-bed unit for disabled children, and will house three children and house parents. It has been designed with the extra room needed for wheelchairs, and also with ramps at the front of the house and at the rear emergency exit. We had Geza.com come to fit bathroom and kitchen units, and our electrician Rudy wired the place ready for use. Thank you to all concerned who have made this possible Lettie is 13 years old and has Cerebral Palsy. She cannot walk unaided and is totally dependent for all her physical needs. The children will be looked after by our house mums, Victoria and Mary, during the evening and early morning, and will attend our school during the day. As you can imagine, Lettie and the others require a lot of special care, and this is expensive. Please find it in your hearts to sponsor Lettie and give all our children the home that God says they should have. We would like to purchase for all our wheelchair users a special vehicle for taking them and the others for doctors’ appointments and day trips. This would be a valuable asset for the ministry and would cost in the region of $30,000 or 15,000 sterling (R220,000). Thanks once again for your prayerful support and for ensuring that the children that man gives up on can find love and nurture with a Christian family. Our other young lady, Simphiwi, who also suffers with CP and who is fed through a PEG, was admitted to Far East Rand hospital. The staff was great, but the hospital battles underfunding. So it was quite distressful at times to see the poor environment that both nurses and patients have to battle. We were glad to see Simphiwi home and well again. Paulina still waits for permission to remove a bone in her foot. This has now taken eight months and is an example of the things we have to battle against with social services. Luke had a nasty lump on his shoulder due to a swollen gland, and Baden, who is lactose intolerant, managed to steal some cheese from the top of one of the kid’s Pizza. He ended up quite unwell with a terrible tummy. Prudence really has a talent for baking. Her cornbread is the best I have tasted. Who knows, she may be Ebyown’s future cook N’thombi, Siphiwe and Jo have all been well this month, for which we praise God. Deven has had several seizures but has stabilized in the last week. Lyn and I have had a fair month. We were due to go on five-days leave but the xenophobic troubles began on Kwazinzele. And although it was not the worst hit area, there were some shacks burnt down and gunshots heard on several occasions. So we thought it prudent not to go at that time. I (Dave) have been diagnosed with Arthritis of the spine with some slightly prolapsed discs, and have been given cortisone. Apart from that, we are doing well. Christopher is also well and is looking forward to travelling. Our other children are all doing fine. We now have Deven and our new girl Siphiwe on a new regime under the supervision of Heidleburg Hospital. Once a month they go for a visit to the dietician, speech therapist, and physiotherapist. We also welcome to our team our new House Mum, Mary, from Lesotho. She will be working the opposite shift to Victoria after some training. This last month also saw Dave preaching in the UK. Thank you for all who supported his meetings. Dave is also visiting the UK from June 25th to July 15th, if you want to meet with him. His UK contact is 0161 737 2996 or cell phone 07771544456. Our health has not been too bad. Dave, though, has been diagnosed with Arthritis 40 June 2008 • Moriel Quarterly
on his C spine and lumbar spine areas, and is undergoing hydrocortisone treatment. Lyn is having a course of antibiotics at the moment, so please pray for them as the winter months arrive. Chris will be taking leave from July 16th to visit friends and family in the UK for three weeks. Again please pray for Chris as he takes a well deserved rest. One of the best gifts we have received was a generator that we reported on last year. With the South African power crisis now in full swing this has been a life saver in keeping our medicines cool and ensuring the whole plot works well. Power is down every other day, and on top of this there are the regular breakdowns and electrical storms that interrupt the service. We had visitors the last two weeks. My son Anthony and his wife Liz, our grandchild Levi and Liz’s Gran, Barbara. Anthony preached the two Sundays he was here and it was a joy to see how his teaching skills are being developed under the guidance of Pastor Leonard James from Woodhill Baptist Church in Colwyn Bay. (If you are holidaying in North Wales give them a Sunday Visit) Our youngest son Aaron and his fiancée Erin celebrated the British round of engagement celebrations. It was good to receive photos of the event, and everyone from both sides of the family looked glowing. It was a great shame that we could not have been there. Tanazania Mission Report Our trip to Tanzania was long overdue. Allen Wells and I had looked forward to this for months and it was with great anticipation that we boarded the plane to Dar Re Salaam, and then onto Kilimanjaro. I had first met Pastor Norbert two years earlier while on Mission in Kenya and he had willingly agreed to take on the role as our mission’s representative in this vibrant yet poor country. I went there to see the progress of Moriel Missions Tanzania, now an official government non-profit organization, and I was really impressed with the progress under Norbert’s leadership. Our first day was a trip to the Moriel HQ. Twenty acres of land given freely by the Tanzania government is being developed into a mission station that now has a school for vocational and biblical training. The journey there was not easy, and everyone winced as the underside of the vehicle was scraped by the terrain and the exhaust almost ripped off. The 30 kms took nearly two hours to travel in the blistering heat with seemingly no air. One of my duties was to give certificates to the hard-working students, most of whom are orphans. Here David Royle Moriel South Africa they learn agriculture, computer skills, tailoring. English was taught at the church run by Pastor Nelson, a lovely man of God. Not only is the land being developed for growing, but a mill has been purchased that strips the maize kernel from the husk, then transports it to the milling machine for flour production. The Moriel land is next door to a village, and the ladies have formed a cooperative that helps one another with the milling as well as funding a minicredit union for the poorest among them. As well as crops, it is hoped that they can raise cattle, goats and chickens to feed the growing number of orphans and widows. A cattle shed has already been erected, and we hope to be able to encourage donations of animals for the upkeep of this needy community. One of the nicer duties was to pray for the local pastors and leaders so that they could be set aside as ministers of the Gospel with Moriel. Although we are not a credential-giving mission (most of us are with CMFI) it was with a sense of occasion that we were able to set these men aside. The final act of our time on-site was to meet with the government and villagers who expressed their support for our work. The next visit of the day was to a village down the road where Moriel supports a substantial orphans and widows project. The local community has given us two acres of land to develop and, although we could not get to see the land due to the rains and road conditions, Norbert’s vision for the place is truly wonderful. Most of the people here are Masai, and it was heartwarming to be received with song by both widows and children. The next day we were to set off to Tabora where Moriel has churches and a radio program that reaches over two million people on Radio Tabora. The ministry here is struggling to pay the $160 per month it takes to host the show, and it is our hope that a sponsor may be found very soon so we can preach the Gospel and broadcast some good Bible teachings from the likes of Jacob. Unfortunately, we could not arrange transport to this area (about ten hours by car), so the next day we were taken to another remote region to visit a Masai village. Our purpose was to undertake house-tohouse evangelism and to set aside the village’s pastor of our Moriel church. The road to the village was even worse. At one time we had to get out and push the vehicle that had gotten stuck in mud. The local farmer was not happy as we had to push onto his land and his panga looked very menacing. Most of us got covered in mud, but eventually we were free to go on with our journey. The village is made up of simple mud and straw huts. It has no power, no running water. The people collect orange rainwater from wheel ruts on the dirt road. They use this water for washing, cooking and drinking. Theirs is a desperate situation. Infant mortality is high, HIV infection is growing, and the children appear malnourished and sickly with opportunistic diseases evident. But despite the lack of water and desperation we were welcomed from house to house to share the Gospel. And not only was there a lot of interest among the majority of pagans, but we had the honor of leading one Masai lady to Christ. The afternoon ended with a meeting at the church tent. The pastor has built a wonderful construction paid for with donations of wood and material from Moriel. The praise and worship was awesome and it was great to lay hands on the new pastor. The ladies of the church came and gave us food at the end of rice and beef. However, even though it tasted great we couldn’t bear to eat it with so many hungry children looking on. So we asked that the food be taken and shared among the children. Our next trip was to the church of Pastor George. Pastor George, his wife and five children were in a desperate situation. Their small congregation is so poor it cannot support even the building. Pastor George’s house costs $20pm and the Church also $20pm. In fact, they were on the verge of being kicked out penniless onto the streets. At this church we preached the Gospel and also were introduced to government leaders. Pastor George and his family are good people. We enjoyed their fellowship and hospitality, and despite the desperation, they never complained once but were in fact so passionate about the Lord that you sensed they would have it no other way. So what did we learn, and what are our recommendations for your prayer We are amazed at what has been done in such a short time by Norbert and his team. They are to be commended for their vision and energy. While at the Moriel HQ we met a retired nurse whose vision it is to set up a mobile medical clinic. This is desperately needed and could save the lives of many children. The following link is to a USA company that could supply the ideal vehicle for the kind of terrain at a cost estimated at $7000 with transport to Kenya and fitting of back box. • Clean water is an issue. The people are desperate. • Energy is an issue. We could easily set up a solar station that could serve the village. • Pastors if they are to travel and preach done by creating a ministers account administered by the Moriel Tanzanian board to help out when needed. June 2008 • Moriel Quarterly 41
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