The New House in Process!

Bella is now 9 months old!

Well the new house is underway! The team was delayed until late September, and the containers of materials had their own delays, but God has worked the miracle of having team and containers all arrive at Cavango at the same time! We have had a wonderful two weeks with the team - an encouragement to us in every way! Below are some pics of the building progression. It is just amazing! Well - annoyingly blogger loads ones photos in reverse order - so you will have to start from the bottom and go up to see the progression! Sorry, I don't have time to rearrange them all!

Cavango - Some Before's & Beginnings of the house site!

Well, we have been for two 1-week long stays at Cavango and have been able to get some men to start cleaning up the old foundation upon which we will build our house. A team from the US is coming in July-August to do the building, but the slab has to be ready when they arrive! We have also planted some citrus trees and started cleaning the whole yard and fenced a garden area - so it's starting to like something more than a a pile of brush!! Thanks for your prayers on our behalf!

This is the site of the house - just looks like a pile of brush - Where's the house??

Above is the start to the water pipe trench

Below is one of our newly planted citrus trees

Below is after one week of work - there is a foundation and a decent floor still there!

Below is the original water tank for the house - it still is water-tight!

Above is the "back-yard" and the fenced area is where we will have our garden

Bella - the new puppy!

Some have you have been asking for photos of Bella - so here are a couple! She was born Jan 13th 2009.

Back in Angola

We arrived back in Angola in late January after a safe and uneventful drive across Africa from Johannesburg to Lubango! We actually entered Angola in convoy with two other 4x4 vehicles and had some "good" mud to go through about 5 mins into Angola! We all made it without getting stuck! Check out Brent Mudde's video on Facebook if you want to see footage.

Since being back, we have been primarily preparing for our move to Cavango, a mission station that was destroyed during the war that is located in central Angola. A clinic building has been rebuilt there - in fact if you look at our first blog entries you can see some pictures of that process as we were asked to help out with that reconstruction. Now we have been asked to live there permanently and build "our" house there, helping out with community development, primary health care and church work. The "job" is far bigger than either of us, but God is not intimidated by it! Pray for us to have His same Passion for those who don't know HIM!

We took a trip to Cavango in early Feb to be introduced to the people and the local government - we drove 12 hours there one day, had a day at Cavango, and then drove 13hours back to Lubango. It's is only 300 miles away! We had a few problems with the car and a few miracles to fix them so all we could say is the road is bad, but God is Good!