Hello, after a delay of some time in updating my blog. Once again I had trouble downloading but was able to download onto Facebook, so if you have access to that you can check out a couple groups of pictures we put on. there in these last weeks.

We are doing well and it has been a busy couple of weeks. There has been a short term medical team visiting. MAF has done several flights transporting them to various locations. This week the plane has been flying the US Aide team around the Southern Angolan region where there has been severe flooding and 20,000 people have lost their homes. While the plane was gone Tim had hoped to do some renovating of the kitchen counter, which is splitting and the partical board is flaking. However as often happens here, we can find new formica counter top, but no edging, we have tile and grout but there is no plywood anywhere in the city to build the base. So we wait.




This past week we had the priviledge of hosting our MAF CEO Mark Outerbridge and his daughter Marnie at our home. In the picture above Marnie is trying her hand and head at caring water. Notice the expression on the little girl behind her.

This week I was able to go with one of the women who is staying on the compound. She teaches crafts to people in the local communtiy churches. Here we met with a group of teenage girls. They are crocheting with plastic bags, which are in abundance here and a real garbage problem.

They were also making beads out of paper and making jewlery.

Tim, Brent Mudde and Mark Outerbridge

Tim celebrated his birthday last Saturday. We had mexican food and I made him a choclate cake and coffee ice cream.

We have another 2 weeks staying in the house we are in before Erwin the new MAF aircraft mechanic and his family arrive. We are fortunate to be able to stay a couple weeks in Katherina and Miguels house while they are in Germany. When they come home with their two little girls and there new baby boy, we will be staying with Brent the pilot who lives next door to us.

Friday night is pizza night here on the compound. Tim has just finished cooking the chrizo and I have manged to hoard enough cheese to use, we may add some fresh tomatoes and green pepper, nothing to exoctic but its what we have and always an adventure to see what others bring. It is also Brent's birthday tommorow so I have made a carrot cake. Someone gave me some homemade cream cheese...so the icing will be a treat.

I better get busy, thanks to all of you for your support and prayers

Tim and Barb

Hello to all. We have been here almost a month and we are doing well. I have had a very hard time loading pictures to our blog and today I was on a roll and able to load six... some days I can't even load one. So will fill you in on what has been happening.

This is a picture of Teia and Jurrusa (8 mths)in our home. Teia is our new house help. This is new to her and to me and we are learning together. It has been very interesting as we do not share a common language. However we do manage to communicate. It is stretching my knowledege of Portuguese and my Eng/Portg. Dictionary gets a good workout. I have become more confident using many new words and phrases...my favorites are " como se disse isso? (How do you say this?)and esta corecto? (Is this correct?) desculpa (sorry) is another good one. Teia comes two days a week. We pray this will be helpful for her as well and open new opportunites in her life.

Tim inspecting the propeller of the airplane.

Basilio has been busy this past week, along with helping do the inspections, he has been distributing Portuguese Bibles at the hangar. One day he had over twenty people come by asking for their own Bible. He has them write their name on a sheet to keep track of who has gotten one and then has a brief chat about the Bible and how to find things in it. One day he talked with a man for almost an hour about finding things in the Bible to help in the man's Christian walk. The one picture I wish I had been able to get was the airport guard sitting at the gate as we left for the day reading her new Bible.

The rain has taken a toll on the roads. This is a road we took to a old colonial hot springs with some friends on one of our days off. Six hours over bumpy roads...maybe that has something to do with my sore back. Sometimes even within the city the roads can be a challenge. Improvements are being made however and more are being paved.

Today Tim and I ventured into the city to do a little exploring. We saw a few interesting sights and we've included a few of the pictures like the one of the barber shop above. There are many shops like this in the city with similar art work.

Some young men carring some tin along the street, close to the "River Ladies" where we buy our produce.

We found this interesting sight yesterday and went back to get a picture...an Angolan ice-cream shop. Only walls and a floor with a soft-serve ice-cream dispenser and an umbrella for the rain. (we didn't buy any ice-cream)

A moth we saw at the airport...God is an awesome creator!!

We are enjoying our time seeing and experiencing new things again and meeting new people. At present we have three missionaries staying in our guest rooms from northern Nambia. they are doing evangelism training with some of the churches here. It has been great meeting them and being able to pass on a blessing by provding some B&B.

Blessings to you!