SEVERAL ACTIVITIES (Z) - 2 - KAWANGWARE WATER WELL PROJECT
I’m sharing with you the brochure prepared by Mr. Thomas Krueger about theKAWANGWARE WATER WELL PROJECTKawangware is a slum situated approximately 7.5 miles (12 kilometers) in the western outcasts of...
View ArticleSEVERAL ACTIVITIES (Z) - 1 - UHLC, NURU, HHOCC+ More
Welcome – KARIBUNI – to our October Blog Postage. Enjoy it!Pr. Carlos Walter & Lídia Winterle ***********************NEW MISSION POINT - KPA Pastor Omodhi and Pastor Carlos visited a new...
View ArticleKAWANGWARE WATER PROJECT
This text was written by the Committee in charge of the project and forwarded to me by Prof. Thomas Krueger. As we know the real need of a Water Well in Kawangware, we are publishing this matter in our...
View ArticleSEVERAL ACTIVITIES NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2010
A) Advent + ChristmasA1 - It’s almost Christmas again! 2010 has passed by so fast! It seems that time runs faster every year as we become older. On the one hand we are worried that time runs too fast...
View ArticleTransition from Kenya to Cape Town
A – MY INSTALLATION at ST. THOMAS CONGREGATION, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA The Installation Service at St. Thomas Congrgation was performed by Bishop Dieter Reinstorf on 23rd January assisted by the...
View ArticleMOZAMBIQUE 2011
This has been my second trip to Sena, Mozambique. A Theological Education by Extension course is ongoing there, sent by the Seminário Concórdia, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brazil. (Read about my...
View ArticleMozambique 2013 - J - Back to Beira
On Thursday, 8 August, began my trip back home. Driver Micas, who had taken me to all the churches and was the photographer as well (with my camera), took me back to Beira. The first hour was on a dirt...
View ArticleMozambique 2013 - I - Visiting some Families
Classes began on Monday regularly. On Wednesday afternoon, after class, we visited Jambo and Mateus, who are in charge of St. Paul Church in Sena. They picked some native fruits to offer:Maçanica....
View ArticleMozambique 2013 - H - Services and Baptisms
The first service was on Saturday afternoon, 3 August, in Chemba. When I preached there two years ago the church was under construction and the service was under this big three. During the service, a...
View ArticleMozambique 2013 - G - The students ready to go home for the weekend
On Friday, after the classes, the students prepared themselves to go home for the weekend. They all came to my guesthouse to fetch the new belongings.We prayed together for the gifts and that God...
View ArticleMozambique 2013 - F - Gifts from Brazil
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brazil – IELB, collected a special offering to help the students and their families. I asked them to make a list of priorities and to make a quotation of the items...
View ArticleMozambique 2013 - E - Project Kuwangisana
Mrs. Gabriel Miandica, Director of the Project Kuwangisana, took me to Caia, the closes town, on Saturday morning, to take some money from the ATM machine.This welcome sign is at the entrance of the...
View ArticleMozambique 2013 - D - The TEE Venue
This was the kitchen of the guest house…the toilet…(I think that’s why the papaya tree grew so high…) I got fresh papayas several times here too.Mrs. Branca (branca means: white) and her daughter were...
View ArticleMozambique 2013 - C - The TEE Students
The students were waiting for me and we came together on the night of my arrival (Tuesday).– The Director of Projct Kuwangisana, Mr. Gabriel Miandica, came to visit the students the day after.I took...
View ArticleMozambique 2013 - B - The Guesthouse
The day after we went to Sena, 500 km and a 9-hour drive on a terrible road. But we reached Sena safely and this house was waiting to host me during the next 10 days.It's the same house that hosted me...
View ArticleMozambique 2013 - A - Beira
Mozambique – a country with 24 million inhabitants. It gained its independence from Portugal in l975, but just after this a Civil War devastated the country, from l977 to 1992. Now it is a Republic....
View ArticleMOZAMBIQUE 2014 - V - THE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
A very important step was taken when we signed a Memorandum of Understanding – MOU on 9th July late afternoon. It is an Addendum to the first MOU written and signed at the beginning of the TEE program...
View ArticleMOZAMBIQUE 2014 - IV - THE TEE TRAINING SESSIOS
Finally we could walk late on Monday afternoon to the venue where the Theological Education by Extension – TEE – was held. Usually we have to walk a long distance from where we stay to the venue....
View ArticleMOZAMBIQUE 2014 - III - MONDAY
Monday was a festive day! People had organized a welcome party for the visitors from Canada, Brazil and South Africa. This is the first time Pastor Alfazema came back after he went to Canada in 2011...
View ArticleMOZAMBIQUE 2014 - II - THE SUNDAY
I went to Igreja Luterana São Paulo, Sena, for the Service on Sunday morning, where I preached and performed baptisms and Holy Communion. Mateus Domingos Sifa, one of the TEE students, is in charge of...
View ArticleMOZAMBIQUE 2014 - I - BEIRA & SENA
Pastor André Plamer came from São Paulo, Brazil and Pastor Carlos Walter Winterle came from Cape Town, South Africa, and we met at the airport in Johannesburg to fly together to Beira, Mozambique, for...
View ArticleMOZAMBIQUE JUNE 2015 A WEEK OF BLESSINGS
The week from June 18 to 25, 2015 will be an unforgettable period for pastors Roger, Chris and Carlos. Rev. Roger Zieger is Mission Director for “Mission of Lutheran Churches” – MLC (Bleckmarer...
View ArticleMOZAMBIQUE AUGUST 2015 ORDINATION SERVICE
Pastor Egon Kopereck, President of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil – IELB; Pastor Dieter Reinstorf, Bishop of the Free Evangelical Lutheran Synod in South Africa – FELSISA; Pastor Leonério...
View ArticleMOZAMBIQUE JUNE 2016
THE CHURCH GROWS AMAZINGLY IN MOZAMBIQUE! “We cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard” (Acts 4:20). “And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved” (Acts 2:47)....
View ArticleMISSION STORIES – MOZAMBIQUE
As promised in the last post, read in this post some mission stories. While in the car going to visit the churches; or seated at night with the pastors; and even during the long trip by train, we...
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