Joburg, George, Cape Town and Angoche

So we travel back to Southern Africa to continue our Koti Journey. Our 2 week trip seeks to make new connections and maintain existing ones.

Our agenda includes:

Marriage Course

Staying in Joburg with our friends the Van Renen’s and meeting with the leadership team of Family Impact who we are partnering with to deliver a contextualised version of the Marriage Course called Marriage Course 101. In our meeting with them we will discuss how to train the trainers and also publication of training materials. We will be piloting further parts of the course whilst in Angoche, looking at the subjects of communication, listening and negotiation.

Strategic Planning

We will be spending time in George with Graeme and Lucy Fawcett (from Osaka) and Linda Harding (from Leeds) looking together at how we can invest in future generations in the missions context. We will also look at future strategies for the work amongst the Koti people and other least-reached peoples and prepare final plans for our visit to Angoche.

Angoche Community Centre

We have obtained further quotes for the main hall, and await more responses on the the soils testing that we need to undertake to design the foundations.

The master plan includes some smaller buildings like kitchen, classrooms and offices which we think can be part-built by international teams. We are visiting a large church in Cape Town who have previously supported the work in Angoche to explore how they can be involved.

Prayer and other stuff

We will spend some time in Angoche praying for the work and will be part of a team from UK, New Zealand and Japan. We’ll be meeting leaders and communities of faith in the mainland villages and islands (I hope to sail across to the islands in the taxi boat).

The Tamole boatman

 

So there will be lots of travelling (8 flights in 2 weeks) and some long car journeys but we’ll cover a lot of ground and hopefully be an encouragement to those we meet.