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| A clinic we build and a bicicle-ambulance the government gave to us |
Medical attention. Clinic building.
We were sent to fulfill the need of medical attention. We saw patients and treated them at the local hospital and in rural areas.
We started to build a clinic in Nambuzi and contact CANZIBE a Non for Profit Organization from the Netherlands, which is now building hospitals and wells for the communities in the Milange district.
Nutrition Program.
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| Undernourished child |
It is aimed to orphaned babies (mother died at delivery) or babies from HIV+ mothers. Local volunteers supervise their growth and provide powder milk and special food preparations to improve their chances of survival.
Children Project.
After realizing that children where not a priority in
their value system, we started a process of rising awareness. We invited Cristina & Carlos Mutazzi, Christian educators specialized in children, among many others, to focus on children’s needs and to help churches to be aware of the importance of children, and to prepare leaders to work with children. We can already see the difference. Churches are aware of the need. They are teaching children and reproducing the training of leaders of children. They use music and drama as tools for communication.
Igreja Deus Connosco (“God With Us” Church).
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| The church where we first started teaching. |
It was an animist church called "Itopia", which mixed the worship of spirits of the dead, witchcraft and other occult practices, with the Christian faith. When they discovered that Christ was big enough and more powerful than all the spirits, they decided to follow Christ and abandon the pagan practices. They had 22 churches when we contact them and now they more then 100.
Pharmaceutical Project.
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| Teaching how to prepare a treatment for malaria. |
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| Teaching how to dry medicinal leaves |
We brought this project to the Milange area after realizing that with our approach (modern medicine, one doctor and no hospitals) it was not enough for a population of 350.000 people.
Multimedia Project.
Local Music and Video Production.
During our time in Milange we met two important local composers, Dominique Domingos and Gonçalves Murimaoca. They produce music in Portuguese, Chichewa, Lombwe and Marenge. They both had a spiritual experience with God while we lived there. They changed their approach to music and their message.
Now they are eager to share God’s word and to share their experience in order to allow others to experience the transformation only Jesus can work in us. Each one of these musicians has a recording studio. They also contribute to the local radio, produce CDs of music and video-DVDs.
Leo Quinteros, is a Christian Music and Video producer. He is preparing materials and training to cooperate with these musicians. We want to help them to improve their work and to equip them to go to radio and TV.
Jesus Film.
This project was started in the area by Juan and Adriana Palacios (Argentinean doctors and missionaries) before we lived there. One of the main leaders of this project is Rodrigues Domingo. We use the Chichewa version of the Jesus Film based on Lucas. We went to areas where the Jesus film was not known and we projected it on a big screen for everybody to see. Rodriguez gave a message of salvation in Chichewa. Many understood the message of God and many started to follow Christ since then.
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| Rodriguez and his family |
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| Rodriguez with the old projector. |
The old projector is not working anymore. We want to equip Rodriguez with a projector, DVD player, battery, screen and bicycles to enable him to continue with this project. The Jesus film is still an important tool. Because of the high level of illiteracy, the message is better understood when they can see and hear it in a movie.
“Biblias para Mozambique”
The Bible is central and basic to the Christian faith.
There are many people in Mozambique without the chance to read the Bible. Many churches have only one Bible, others have no Bible at all. Even some Christian leaders have to rely on copies or pages of a Bible. We want to help churches and Christian leaders to have their own Bible. We want people to be able to read the word of God to allow him to talk to them trough it.
We rise awareness through social media and church gatherings and rise money which we send to the Bible Society of Malawi. The Bibles are mostly in Chichewa. Christians leaders travel to Malawi and transport the Bibles to Mozambique for distribution. We were able to distribute around 1.500 Bibles in the first year of this initiative (Dec.2011 to Dec.2012) (around $12,000 USD) with offerings from Argentina and the US.
Theological Training Project.
Because of the fast paced growth of the churches (many more people follow Christ and many more new churches are founded every day), there is a big need of theological training. We started a continuing education program for the church this year.
We need Christian teachers and pastors to help us to contribute with the teachings to help the Mozambican church to grow healthy. You can donate 2 weeks or more of your time to contribute with training seminars, or conferences in which we could gather leaders from different churches of a particular area to attend.
Radio Project.
The initiative was started by Zeca Domingos, a young local pastor, who has more than 40 churches and is passionate about sharing the Good News of God. He wants to start a radio ministry as a multidenominational initiative. He presented the project for Radio and TV to the local government, which approved it, and now the project was sent to the Communication Ministry in Maputo to be evaluated.
We are in the process of surveying the area for clues and needs to know how a new could look like. Which approach should we take? Which population should we focus on? etc.
In Argentina is Marco Antonio Luna, who has a dream: to plant a radio in Mozambique. He is busy investigating and preparing the equipment and technology needed to run a radio.
My sister, Karin Martin is a Communication specialist. She is assisting me with the project.
Rev. Jaime Vega, Pastor and Christian Communicator will contribute to this initiative.
A South African missionary, Kobus, recommend us to start buying air time from the local radio “Tumbine” and producing programs for it.
30 minutes cost 23,00 U$D.
6 months of daily programs of 30 min. could cost 1.155 U$D.
Marriage and Family Initiative.
Promiscuity and polygamy are endemic in this area. The children are left by themselves during the day at the mercy of anybody who wants to approach and harm them while their parents are busy farming.
Many Not For Profit (NGO) and the government are trying to rise awareness about AIDS and other sexual transmitted diseases. We, as Christians, know that a healthier solution is sound marriage and family values. We help churches to understand the importance of marriage, fidelity, healthy sexuality, responsible parenting, etc.
Cooperatives.
The main business of the area is agriculture. The area allows a big production of corn, beans, peanuts, potatoes, etc. Now the cultivation of soya beans is growing fast.
A big problem arises when they come to sell the product. Because they are small farmers, they cannot negotiate the price with the big exporters and they are obligated to sell the product at a low price when there is a big production and when the hunger time starts (October to March) they are obligated to buy from the same companies at 4 or 5 times the original price.
We want to send specialists in Cooperatives to train them and to allow them to organized themselves to gather and store their crop, to negotiate as a group of farmers, and to be able to choose to sell when the price is more beneficial for them.
Orphans Project.
This is a country of young people and there are many orphans everywhere. Almost every family is rising its own children and some more from another family whose parents died. AIDS is increasing this problem. When parents die, the community gathers to decide which family is going to be responsible for the children left alone. It could be grandparents, relatives, or neighbors.
There is an organization called OJC (Christian Youth Association) which is focusing on helping these adopted orphans to prevent them getting involved in self-destructive behavior (prostitution, drug abuse, theft). They teach them about the love of God for them. They organize musical competitions. They help with educational materials so that they can go to school. And they teach them working skills (agriculture, carpentry, build houses, etc.) to help them to be self-sufficient in their future.
It would be great if we could create a database through which we could associate each child with someone from another country (like a sort of tutor from the distance) so as to write, encourage, counsel, pray, help financially, etc, with the intention to compensate the lack of stimulus from the parents they don’t have.
New initiatives:
We welcome new ideas and suggestions that could improve the lives of people, to help them grow and break the cycle of poverty. By doing so, we want to glorify God by sharing His principles of love and justice for all.
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Phone: 347-659-6022 I receive SMS. I cannot answer calls during week working hours (6am-3pm).
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