huambo news

“The highest purpose for faith is not to change my circunstances, but to change me.”

Huambo in brief

We reached again that time of the year when people needs to walk long distances to get water…The wells are dry, the streams become a crowd of basins and buckets, everybody trying to get a bit of the precious liquid…
We wish the search for God would be like this desperate search for water! We wish the search for the Word would be a primary need, as the water is!
It is funny how we don’t value the water so much when we have it abounding in out taps! But when it is not found in our basins, at our bathrooms, on our plants, that are getting dried, we realize how precious the water is!
May we not be like that with God: Get confortable with the fact that he is always there and not let be in awe every day for the blessing of knowing that he is our first need!

Rejoice with us with our news:

DISCIPLESHIP TRAINING SCHOOL – DTS- At this school we have 5 students:
Augusto, Elias (above). Osorio, Carol and Manuel. They represent five denominations and only Elias is from Huambo. This DTS has been unique, since we see that the work of God in them has been and will be great! They had three month lecture phase, had various teachers that talked taught about Knowledge of God, His Word, Spiritual Warfare and others. During these two months they will be traveling to Kunene, where they will be serving our team there working with the tribes Himba and Dimba for ten days. From there they will go to Menongue, where one team, led by Maria da Conceicao (Sao) will be serving the Igreja Assembleia de Deus Pentecostal for six weeks.
The other team, led by Iury Hermegildo (Gildo) will be traveling to Cuito-Cuanavale, where they will be serving the Igreja Ev. Baptista also for six weeks. We ask for your prayers for them and may they be vessels in God’s hands to many people’s salvation.

Elias is 29 years old. He was a soldier for five years and left the army very frustrated. He lost good part of his thinking hability because of drug and alcohol abuse. However he is humble and willing to learn. He grew a lot spiritually and has been showing a gift on child evangelism. When we think of what he was in the past, it is hard to believe that he has love and patience with children and all of us here! God has really given us the ministry of reconciliation ( 2 Cor 5:18) Be faithful to God and His Word and re-gain the time he lost when he was far from God are his goals for the future. We praise the Lord for this life being restored.

BUILDING – It has been a great joy to be able to enjoy all we could already build: dorms, kitchen, guest house, staff house.. Each one of these buildings is a blessing for us and part of a whole we keep on dreaming of. This year we still plan to build an office. We need a miracle, though, since the cement and building material are rare as well as the builders…
SUPPORT FOR THE CHURCH - One of our goals as a mission is to equip the church. We have had many opportunities in this area and invitations come from all sides for us to speak on meetings, recreation activities, seminars and even to speak on Sundays services, week services and Sunday School. We have see we have been influence on various ways and we are glad to be able to serve the church.

STAFF ON SPOT: MARIA DA CONCEICAO (Sao)
She is 28 years old and did her DTS on 1998. She is a member of Igreja ICEA, from Luanda and her passion is Training. She has many gifts, among them the gift of loving people, being a good administrator and excellent cook!
One of her objectives is to improve her English skills in South Africa next year and use the language as a tool for Evangelism and Discipleship.

...”OF SUCH IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.” – We had a very special time with the neighborhood children while the DTS was in their lecture phase. Every Saturday we had more than 70 children coming for a time of worship, Bible stories and a lot of playing. They were challenged to receive jesus as their Saviour and follow Him and it has been good to hear tham singing the songs they learned here in the streets and talking about the stories they learned from the “aunties” and “uncles” from YWAM!

SCHOOL OF RURAL EVANGELISTS - It was a great joy for the 38 evangelists to receive their “Kinga 4x4”bicycle ! It’s a Chinese bicycle, very strong and will facilitate the evangelists working at the rural areas, where the access is difficult and the only means of transportation available is the bicycle. We have heard good news about their work after they had done the training. Praised be God!

NEWS FROM THE TRIBES –
Our brothers and sisters working among the tribes Himba and Dimba are very happy. The chief of the Dimba people received Jesus as His Saviour, what has influenced the conversion of other men in the tribe. Most of the converted people there are women, so the king’s conversion is a great step to have men being saved too. The team says that when discipling the king, his great concern and ost interest is how to solve his village problems without using witchcraft. We must pray for him.
Also in Kamukuio, our team there has been blessed with a property where they are going to build the Training Center. It is a very strategic 3 hectare property, where classrooms for adult literacy, a health clinic and a vocational training Center will be built to serve the people living in that area. Our missionary living there, Inacio Fio, was appointed to be the vice-director for the Government Community Development Department and we trust the Lord is going to use hi in great way to be an influence in the government.
Among the Mukubal people, led by missionary Sebastiao, he has made difference among this people. He has learned the language and the culture of this people, so primitive and uninterested for modernity! Witchdoctors have been challenging him, but the demons have no authorization to act when Sebastiao is around!
His goal is to start with evangelism now that he knows the language and knows their customs. Let’s pray for him!

Prayer requests:
-for the DTS outreach phase (students and staff, health, provision , annointing);
-for staff, specially for child evangelism and training; visas for brazilians and other nations;
-financial support for the ministry and building, as well as builders, plumbers and electricians;
-churches that are commited with the truth and the missionary work;
- for the mission maintenance:
• a 20kva generator;
• a 2 inch water pump;
• A computer with multimedia;
• Beds and mattresses.

ANSWERED PRAYERS:
MANUEL BONGA – We thank you for your prayers to Manuel Bonga’s visa. He has been trying to come to Angola for 5 years and his visa was approved in Zambia 2 weeks ago. He must come as soon as he has his visa stamped in his passaport. Please, pray for finances to cover his visa expenses and travel to Angola with his two children.

ELECTIONS –We also thank for your prayers for the elections. They were pacific and everything went well. We keep on praying for the presidential elections next year.

We thank you for the opportunity to share our news with you. Many blessings to you all,

JOCUM HUAMBO
CX POSTAL 82
@: jocum_huambo@yahoo.com.br