Maputo and Cambine

It is Saturday evening in Cambine. We arrived this afternoon having spent most of two days in Maputo. The Maputo meeting with the president of the Women's society went very well and then we got a fantastic opportunity. We got to spend three hours with the new Bishop Joaoquina Nhtnala, the first woman Bishop in Mozambique. Is she ever great, and very down to earth. We talked about our scholarship program for the orphanage, Cambine Orphanage in general and what we will be doing while we are there to help Dieudonne, and we talked about the NYAC and the Mozambique Connection. She was not very familiar, so talked about a lot of things. We think we did a good job for newcomers, and she is very appreciative of what we have and are doing and has a lot of ideas for new projects. One concept she talked about was linking up individual churches in the two conferences. She also asked to give her a report of what we found at Cambine. We will do a more complete report on our meeting with her when we return. Maybe at the September Meeting we can give the whole board an update on our discussions with her and what we found in Cambine. Dieudonne has a full schedule planned for the upcoming week which we reviewed with him shortly after we arrived. We will give a further update in a couple of days.

Kay and Jerry