M & M in Suriname

Our life with the Wayana indians

1 juni 2023
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Time does not stand still

We are already a few weeks further since our last publication on our blog at the end of March. A lot has happened in the past few weeks. In the first place there was the Easter conference in Apetina. Like every year, this was a great celebration with many guests from villages along the river. For many in the village it was a long-awaited reunion with family and friends. Four canoes full of visitors came upstream from Tepu and Palumeu.

Five large aluminum boats came from the Lawa with people from Awarahpan. They arrived within only a few minutes apart so that the choir from the church and the reception committee had to quickly walk over the rocks to the other side of the village immediately after the arrival of one group in order to receive the second wave of visitors. It turned out to be a great weekend with a number of meetings in church every day, eating together and in the evening exchanging what had happened in everyone’s lives.

In order to be back in town in time for our next trip, we wanted to leave Apetina right after the conference. We learned that during the conference a group from the Medical Mission came to the village to investigate the state of affairs regarding malaria. They like to take advantage of these conferences to meet many people in a village having their blood samples examined by microscope every day. More than 400 people took the test and it turned out that no one was infected. We also had our blood tested and our result was also positive. We were able to get a ride with the pick-up flight and therefore arrived in our house near Paramaribo fairly quickly after the conference.

At the end of April we left for the Netherlands. Marco immediately drove on to be in Florence in time for the World Team global leaders meetings. Marjolein arrived two days later after which we visited Marco’s brother in the north of Italy together. We hadn’t met in 6 years. Then we drove back to the Netherlands to be in time for the next trip, this time to Trinidad & Tobago. We had a short week in between to preach on Sunday in the Chinese Church in Rotterdam and then help Marjolein’s brother with some jobs in their new home in Vroomshoop. How nice it is to be able to catch up with each other for a few days about what is happening in our lives.

After arriving in Trinidad, Marco first traveled to Tobago. On Mother’s Day he was invited to preach in the church of Scarborough, the pastor of which is also chairman of the mission committee within the ECWI (Evangelical Church of the West Indies). He then spoke at church on two evenings to help put missions back on the map. After Covid, the churches were ready for a new impulse. Marco was asked to be the keynote speaker for the Mission Conference on Sunday, May 21, in the south of Trinidad. Marjolein joined him on Wednesday, after which we had a full program together with a number of meetings with people who were interested in missions. The days before the weekend of the 21st we were at ECWI’s Bible Camp to help with the final preparations.

It was nice to be able to work with the organizing committee and to get to know each other better. Peeling potatoes together well into Saturday night turned out to be an excellent bridge to each other’s hearts. Marco spoke about missions that Sunday morning to over 200 people who had gathered from the various churches on both islands. A nice detail was that he was allowed to talk about Foundations for Farming with a small group of interested people on Saturday morning. It now looks like we have been invited back in November for a first week of training on both islands. So to be continued.

In recent weeks we have been in regular contact with a few Wayana teams. Ame and Susina have arrived safely in Canada where they will spend three months learning English while deepening the various relationships they have met over the past year.

A team of 5 trainers from Foundations for Farming in Apetina has visited two Trio villages in the west of Suriname in the past two weeks. In Coeroenie and Amotopo, the principles of FfF were explained, a test garden was constructed and the first compost heap was set up. Also in these villages, there is a big problem to provide the people with enough food. The harvests are disappointing because the climate is also changing strongly here. We pray that this instruction will help people to see better results in their gardens with the newly learned method.

Marco turned 66 on May 24. Grateful for our health and energy, we were able to celebrate this in a small circle at the family of Andre and Wimke in Delft.

As we write this we are camping out at the Revival Conference at Pentecost. After many years we are involved again. Marco will speak on Sunday evening during a Foundations for Farming seminar and together we will be in the mission tent at the C&MA Mission stand a number of times. We remember how things were at this conference in the past. Yet an influx of around 75,000 people nowadays is something we cannot imagine yet. Our daughter Jiska is active within Mission the Netherlands in planning the mission seminars. We look forward to meeting with many of our acquaintances during the days in the field and pray that God may use us to assist those interested in missions in their preparations.

The month of June Marco travels to Peru for a number of training weeks for FfF and three weekends of meetings with the WT Team in Lima. For the first ten days he will travel with a Chinese team to Chile and Bolivia to research opportunities for new mission work among the Chinese population there. Marjolein stays in the Netherlands and looks forward to a good time with her parents in Veenendaal.

31 maart 2023
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Back HOME again in Apetina

With all the negative media coverage concerning riots in Suriname the last few weeks we want to let you know that we are safe and that we only noticed what is going on through the media. Of course, people in the interior also see prices of groceries and fuel are rising for the last few years. Fortunately, they are much less dependent on all the amenities the city offers. It’s nice to have a cylinder of cooking gas, it makes the cooking process a lot easier, but if it’s not there, they go to the forest and cut wood for cooking.

After almost a week of cleaning in our house in Apetina, we were ready to receive guests. We expected two men from the Netherlands on a Tuesday, but the flight schedule was messed up that morning, so the flight got re-scheduled for the next day. We were looking forward to meet them since they would bring a new Power Converter for our solar system.

When we arrived in Apetina, the radiator of the village generator was loaded into the plane to be repaired in the city. We are still waiting for the repair to be finished and for a flight that can take the radiator back to the village. Waiting is an issue we are used to in the jungle. When we tried to connect our freezer to the solar system it turned out that the Power Converter was broken. That meant no electricity at all! How can we charge our phones and computer? How do we keep the meat frozen and other items we brought with us to be refrigerated? Fortunately, there has been built a solar-powered freezer house in the village. The meat is kept frozen in one of the four freezers. There was room for our modest bag. Water is cooled/frozen in another freezer. With some improvising we managed to keep our fridge cool last week. In another house we could charge 2 battery packs each day in order to power our telephones so we could stay connected to the outside world. We are very grateful that this was possible and we were able to get things back to normal after a week when MAF brought in a new Power Converter to be installed.

In the past few days, Marco went for a dip in the river before siesta. It took quite a long time for him to return. As it turned out, his glasses fell into the river. Marco had to dive several times to look for his glasses, but in vain. While praying, he tried one more time close by. Happy to find his glasses back in his hands. Marco has a spare pair of glasses…in the city. These would have been difficult weeks. He came home very happy. Together we thanked God that He also wants to help us in these daily things. Nothing is too big or too small for Him.

In the village we hear the bushcutters every day. There is a lot of mowing in the village to have everything ready in time for the Easter conference. Last Saturday the people started to cut cooking wood getting into the bush with a number of canoes. Last week we brought 80 kilos of groceries for the church. We hear that three canoes full of people from the Lawa river are coming for the conference. A number of canoes also come down the river from Tepoe and Palemeu crossing the heavy rapids upstream from Apetina.

Last week we bought online the airline tickets to Canada for Amepun and Susina. They hope to be in Canada from May 10 to August 3. Their main goal is to learn the English language, but they also will stay in Sunchild and O’Chiese reserve for a number of weeks to minister to the people there. They look forward to meeting the people again. The missionary couple we met last year will take care of ESL, English lessons. Until then, the weekly online classes with Marilynne from Calgary will continue ‘as usual’. We are impressed by the faithfulness of Amepun and Susina, but also of Marilynne, who has been spending time every Saturday morning at 8 am to teach the Wayana for almost 2 years now.

Last but NOT Least we would like your attention for the

For the very first time EVER, World Team will be hosting a Global Conference in summer 2023 where ALL World Team missionaries from all over the world, and the staff of all three sending centers, are invited to participate. It is called the “3C Conference” – Community – Collaboration – Celebration, and will be hosted in Asia. We are excited to be a part of such a worldwide team, and eager to meet coworkers from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe. This will be an opportunity to find community among workers that can relate to our day-to-day, collaborate on future projects, celebrate the grace of the Lord that we have each seen in our lives and ministries, and learn from the hundreds of years of combined experiences of our colleagues. Here are some specific prayer requests for the upcoming World Team Global Conference:

1) Pray for safety for the many workers who will be traveling from all over the world.

2) Pray that God would use this conference to sustain and stir up his workers to face the upcoming challenges and joys of ministry.

3) Pray for encouragement, renewal, and new ideas as we speak to missionaries whose experience varies from ours. 

4) Pray that we would all walk away from this conference with a renewed joy and passion in our work. 

Would you consider helping to make this conference possible for our workers? Would you pray about sponsoring an individual or a family? Your partnership will have a huge impact on the future of our mission and our projects.

31 januari 2023
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A great start

All of a sudden it is the end of January and the first month of this new year has already passed.

Our solar panels needed cleaning. A long pole with a broom connected at the end helped to get the job done.

We have been sorting things out in our house in Lawa because on January 23d Anneke Kempeneers moved in from Maripasoula. That means making two households into one. For her ministry with the youth it is important to be closer to the Wayana youth leaders and the youth. Since we don’t live in Lawa all year round, but also in Apetina and near Paramaribo, we offered to let her live in ‘our’ house in Lawa. We reverse the roles, normally she came to stay with us and from now on we will stay with her.

From Tabiki/Maripasoula with the canoe. We had our lawnmower fixed in the city. For one of our neighbors we could bring a new washing machine along.

After a quick visit from Marco to the city (as it turned out after a checkup by the dentist) to extract a tooth whose root no longer wanted to cooperate, we have been busy planning, for ourselves, but also for the annual planning of the churches along the Lawa river. This still is sometimes difficult for the older leaders, especially if there is also a price tag attached to the activities. We see that the group of bible school students are more into thinking this way. Very nice to be able to advise from the sideline. We also see growth in this respect.

Last Sunday we had a meeting with the church leaders in our house after church to discuss the year plan for 2023.

Amepun and Susina are looking forward to visit Canada again this year.

Together with World Team Canada we made a 3-year plan (2023 – 2025) with a budget. The plan envisages three Wayana couples visiting three different places in Canada for three months at a time over the next three years. We believe the Lord shows three regions: Alberta (Calgary), Manitoba (Winnipeg), and Quebec (Montreal).

We plan a research trip to Montreal at the beginning of June. Through the NEFC (Native Evangelical Fellowship of Canada) we came into contact with a number of mission workers from UIM (United Indigenous Missions). They have worked there for 20 years and are connecting with several people in a nearby reserve. They would like assistance from a Wayana couple. Together with Ipomadi, the Grand Chief of the Wayana in Lawa, we will visit for more than a week to investigate the possibilities together with NEFC and UIM. We believe that God will bring us in touch with a Wayana couple that is fluent in French and called by Him to join this team.

An old friend came to pay us a visit. Rifi helped us paint our roof in Apetina. He is married now and they have two children.

Next Thursday, Paul Muzzin will come to Lawa for a 4-day visit. He filmed our Wayana team in Canada for a few weeks last summer. He visits to record how the Wayana’s live. We expect it to be some full days together. We plan to fly to the city with Paul on Monday, February 6.

Marjolein turned the apples Marco brought from the city into a nice Applepie in order to celebrate her birthday on January 22

We have quite a few boxes already packed to bring along to our home in Republic. We also booked our flight to the Netherlands for the end of April. Marco has to be in Florence for World Team meetings at the beginning of May. This gives us the opportunity to visit Marjolein’s parents again. Marjolein’s father hopes to turn 89 in April.

Early morning view of the sunset on the river

 

22 december 2022
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December …

In October and November we were on Home Assignment in the Netherlands meeting with our supporting churches and many supporters. Marco joined the Global Leaders meetings in Asia and together we visited our WT team in Lima. We also spend two weeks visiting two organizations in Peru to investigate future possibilities for ministry with Foundations for Farming since Marco has been asked to look for possible connections in South America.

On December 4’, we drove to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam at 4.30 am to be in time for an early flight to Paramaribo. We arrived in Suriname early in the afternoon, so we still had time to visit our friend Marja and then our youngest daughter and her family. Monday was a shopping day to buy the last food items before we could fly to Lawa on Tuesday. That flight was also early in the morning, so we had an early start again to drive to Zorg & Hoop airport at 5.30 am. That gave us time in Lawa to clean the house and be ready for visitors the next day. It was heartwarming to meet the people again and to hear that they were happy to see us!

On Wednesday morning, Gum Air landed with 6 guests from Canada and California for a three-day visit. The plane was loaded with almost 300 Love Packs full of presents for children up to the age of 14 and with 100 children’s bibles! The second children’s bible in a series. We will be handing them out at Christmas. Last Sunday we were able to present the new children’s bible to the people who have been assisting Marjolein in translating during the last few years.

The Love Packs were handed out on Thursday afternoon. What a joy! To our great surprise, canoes with children arrived from the surrounding villages also. It was a great event. We enjoyed the enthusiasm of the children’s workers. They had provided lists with all the names and ages of the children in advance. Preparations they have been working on these since August. Only the teenagers couldn’t come because they were still in boarding school. Their turn will be at Christmas time.  Friday morning the plane landed again to fly our guests back to Paramaribo.

Then it was time to sort out the 4 boxes of clothes we had brought from the Netherlands. This week people could come over to our house and choose nice clothes for Christmas and buy them for a small price. As always it is amazing to see how fast neat piles of clothes turn into a colorful mountain in which it is more difficult to find something nice. People will still come in the next few days, so the remaining clothes are waiting for them in neat piles.

Today a large number of men joined together to mow the tall grass in the village for Christmas with bush cutters. Of course, Marco is also there.

Many guests and family members from other villages are expected for Christmas. Saturday evening, we start with singing in the church, and on Sunday and Monday we celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus together. At noon, everyone is invited to be served a meal in the ‘Tukusipan’. Great to celebrate together in this way! A very different Christmas than in the Netherlands. In t-shirts and shorts, we celebrate the same event worldwide.

We are grateful to have such a large group of people around us supporting us with prayer and being involved with us. Thank you all!

From Lawa we wish you a blessed Christmas and a healthy, happy New Year.

1 september 2022
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Back home and in the air again

Tuesday, August 16th the alarm was set at 4 am in order to be on the road to Toronto’s international airport. It was the last time we saw a sunrise in Canada, the next sunrise would be in Suriname.

We had lots of time to check in our suitcases, which had doubled in the past weeks! So we had time for breakfast and to visit the different shops. In Trinidad, we had enough time to visit retired World Team colleagues.

We shared a meal in a food court. Wednesday morning very early we arrived safely in Suriname. Amepun and Susina had to drive to Paramaribo and on to St. Laurent in French Guiana to catch the plane to Maripasoula. The airline changed the date just a few days ago.

Marco and Marjolein used the following days to finish the administrative side of the trip and catch up with family and friends all over the world. Last Saturday Marco flew to another country in South America for a vision trip. Flying within South America isn’t the easiest and so he had the choice to go a few days early or come a few days late. He chose to go early.

Marjolein will spend these two weeks with our daughter Elisabeth and her family. After nine weeks of translation and being on the road, she needs some time to recuperate. Marco plans to fly back home on September 9th.

7 juni 2022
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Ready? ….GO!

Sunday morning May 29th we landed in Suriname again. We had a good month with many air miles. It was so nice to be able to meet people again on their mission field and to participate and experience parts of their ministry.

One of the many airlines

Manaus

River trip while sleeping on board

In the last few months we have been busy preparing for the CANADA trip. Our departure is due Tuesday June 14th. The journey goes via Trinidad to Toronto and then on to Calgary. It will take us three days in total. We will stay in Canada for two months to visit First Nation Reserves together with two Wayana couples and our World Team colleague Pamela. We plan to speak in churches, visit old acquaintances and, as it looks now, meet many people.

How did this all start?

In 2017 Marco and Ipomadi visited the board of the NEFC (Native Evangelical Fellowship of Canada). At that moment the foundation was laid for further cooperation between the Wayana believers and First Nations in Canada. When we visited Canada for the second time in 2019 (one month) we traveled with a group of 6 and Pamela helped us to get around. During those weeks we saw how the different meetings worked out to be a blessing to the people we met and to us.

The evaluation of that trip revealed that the Wayana heard God’s call to visit their “brothers and sisters” in Canada once more. This time we are invited to stay in one Reserve for three weeks which gives us time and opportunities to deepen ties and see how God uses us to reach the people. We will also visit new contacts. For example, in Toronto there is a church that is eager to receive us and learn more about what God has done among the Wayana in Suriname.

We see how the Wayana congregation is willing to serve as missionaries and go a long distance. We are curious about the impact this will have in Canada over the coming years.

The journey was prepared as a great faith adventure. For the past year we have been busy with English lessons (ESL – online). People have also saved up to contribute to the costs themselves and have prayed to open doors that God wants us to enter once we get there.

Doors also had to be opened in the preparations themselves. Applying for the visa has not been easy. At various times our heart sank. That everything is now ready for departure is due to the Lord God who has guided us and has filled our hearts with trust and faith.

Our Wayana Team: Ame & Susina and Melisa & Ipomadi (with some of their (grand)children)

Now that we are about to leave, we see that our budget has been advanced mainly from ‘own resources’. Tickets are booked and visas are paid. When we begin our travels, all kinds of costs will be added: Travel insurance, Covid tests, food on the road, a place to sleep here and there, travel costs (occasionally car rental and gasoline) etc.

Our budget shows a ‘gap’ of US $ 10.000. Yet this does not stop us from our travels in the expectation that the finances we need will be provided. Two churches in Canada have already made a contribution. The Wayana will bring their own contribution along when they come to the city this week.

We invite you to participate in this faith adventure through prayer or a financial contribution.

Please visit Wayana Canada Missions project 2022

 

13 mei 2022
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Where are Marco and Marjolein?

After two years of hardly any travel for World Team, a number of trips are planned this year.

Last week we had our leaders conference with colleagues from the Americas. It was so nice to meet one another again in person instead of online after two years.

It also gives us the opportunity to visit our friends and colleagues Roy and Margaret Lytle. This week Marjolein is staying with them while Marco traveled to Italy for meetings with the Global Leaders last Sunday. He hopes to fly back to Orlando from Florence coming Sunday. Tuesday May 17 we will fly to Manaus to meet the team that works among the ind*genous people there.

In the meantime, the English classes online each Saturday continue. It is great to see the commitment of the Wayana Canada Outreach Team and hear their progress in the language. The week after Easter we booked our tickets for the trip to Canada in faith while we were babysitting our youngest grandson in Paramaribo. Together we checked the names and dates of birth we needed to enter the process in correctly. The next morning Marco put all the copies of the passports from different files together. As he went along, he checked the expiration date of Melissa’s passport again. What we hadn’t noticed the night before, he saw now! Her passport expires on December 13, 2022. We have booked tickets for June 14.

This means that her passport is not valid longer than 6 months upon departure. The next bump in our preparations. Since then we made an effort to apply for a new passport. This has been successful. But as we were informed our request to connect her old passport to the new one had not been followed up by the authorities. She now has a new passport but since her old passport was not attached to it, her visa for Canada was no longer valid.

Yesterday we received the message that her ‘old’ passport has finally surfaced and that the page on which the Canada visa is depicted has not been declared invalid. What a relief. In the meantime, we are busy filling in all kinds of details of our travel plan. Arrangements are made to be picked up from the airport, where can we spend the night in Trinidad when we go from Suriname to Canada, where will we visit when we drive for a week by car from Calgary to Winnipeg, all kinds of questions where we come to now. Our colleague Pamela will accompany us on the trip. Her Canadian background is of great help in filling in these details.

Before we left for the US, we sent the corrected version of the teenage bible to the printer in the Netherlands. It was quite a ‘birth’ but it is finished. We are now waiting for the digital copy so that we can correct typos again, followed by the printing process, transport to Suriname and distribution to the various villages. We already hear people say that the church leaders also want to use this Bible in their sermon preparations. Marjolein is now translating again. This time it concerns forms that have to be filled out on the plane for immigration and customs. She alternates this with translating Bible studies from Francine Rivers’ book about the women in the genealogy of the Lord Jesus.

Itinerary until December 2022 – M&M’s on the move

May 17-31: Manaus in Northern Brazil     –   June 1-13: Paramaribo       –      June 14 – August 16: Canada   –   September 6-16: Paraguay for Marco, Marjolein in Paramaribo

September 20 – December 4: The Netherlands, with Marco the first week of October in Cambodia and both three weeks in Peru in November.

8 maart 2022
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Challenging

On Saturday March 5th, Marco left Schiphol in Amsterdam for Harare in Zimbabwe to enjoy a training course by Foundations for Farming. This is a challenging time with the war in Ukraine going on. What will the world look like in 9 days?

It was also challenging a few weeks earlier when we received the results of our Covid PCR test on February 21th. It felt like waiting for the results of an exam. We were very happy that this result was negative. This allowed us to fly to the Netherlands the following day. Considering the age of Marjolein’s parents, we think a year is a long time to be out of sight. In this way we can make the most of our time in the Netherlands.

We are happy we had only some mild effects of Corona, like having a cold. That was also the reason that we didn’t take a test in the first place. We planned to fly back to the city February 9 and meant pay a visit to Apetina to see the test garden together with the two visiting board members of Foundations for Farming the Netherlands . When Marjolein had a sore throat that same morning we thought it wise to be on the safe side and get a Covid test. At the clinic of the Medical Mission it soon turned out that three of the four of us tested positive, this meant the trip to Apetina was cancelled. MAF was willing to fly us to the city. The three of us then stayed in quarantine for 10 days. Number four flew to the Netherlands the next day. So, the training for Foundations for Farming ended a little differently than expected.

Marjolein will spend a few days with her parents next week in a cottage in the east of the country. This is a very special occasion. We usually have a long weekend with our children and grandchildren. This time it will be a midweek with her parents. We know that we are so privileged !

Monday March 21, we hope to fly to Suriname again.

14 februari 2022
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Intensive

Let’s start with the less positive detail: last Wednesday we tested positive for the corona virus. This was not such a problem for Marco and Marjolein, but for one of the Foundations for Farming men it was. Would he be able to catch his scheduled flight back on Saturday, February 12? We now know that this was not the case and we are waiting for the moment that he has a negative antigen test. Fortunately, we only have to deal with mild illness effects. The other ‘Foundations for Farming-er’ tested negative on Thursday so he was able to fly back to the Netherlands. We would have liked to end this wonderful month in a different way.

We look back on some special weeks! It gives great joy to see people working with enthusiasm. Discovering new things together in the nature they have been living in for many years. Full of awe for our Creator who designed everything so beautifully. We enjoyed our Wayana trainers who enthusiastically introduced people into the theory and practice of Foundations for Farming. In each village we saw a number of people who understood the concept and started working with it. Every village has worked very hard to clean and plant the test garden.  A lot of work has been done to build a compost heap in every village.

In Apetina and Lawa we received support from Serge Lauzon from Canada. He taught the people tons about seedlings and preparing the soil for planting various vegetables. His energy and enthusiasm were contagious. They worked hard in the blazing sun.

Some Wayana said that they even had a sunburn. In Lawa we were visited by two board members of Foundations for Farming the Netherlands. Next to the work in the garden, we also had meetings to report about the progress of the entire project. It was very nice to spend a few days together meeting face to face.

Despite the fact that we are now in quarantine, we look back on beautiful weeks and we are curious which of the Wayana will embrace this new method and apply it in their own vegetable gardens.

16 januari 2022
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On our way to new adventures

As we cruise the river at a leisurely pace, I see our Wayana and Trio scanning the trees. Would there be a fat iguana? It is a mystery to us how they discover such a green animal in the midst of all shades of green, but with their trained eyes they see much more than we do. We enjoy the different trees and flowers while we talk about the past week.

We enjoyed our stay in Palumeu! It was so nice to visit again after 20 years. Our days started early. At 04.45 am the alarm went off every day so that we could be in church at 5 am to pray with the sick. Then we quickly ate a sandwich to start work on the test garden or compost heap between 7 and 8 o’clock. It is very encouraging to see how people want to try the new planting method in their own garden, after having participated in the pilot project. About 45 people attended. A nice group when you consider that the entire village has 360 inhabitants. They prepared delicious food for us and the dishes were also done. Such a luxury!

After lunch we could rest in the hammock. Then we had time to answer emails and do other administrative work, if we didn’t get a visit from one of the leaders. From 4 pm on our team would teach for an hour or two so that theory and practice were well understood. We were able to show a movie almost every evening. People could watch the lives of Abraham and Sarah, Jacob and Leah and Rebekah, Moses and the Exodus from Egypt. This way they could see how a journey through the desert went. They marveled at windstorms and the lack of trees and water.

We had beautiful cloudy weather all week. While we were in church early Friday morning, we got a heavy shower of one hour and a half. It cleared up around 9 am. Would we be able to fly to Tepu? Landing in Palumeu is no problem, but will Tepu’s airstrip also be open? The pilot of MAF had to come any way since our food supply was almost finished. After the plane had landed we hear that there is no flying to Tepu. We decided to try again on Monday. This means that our time in Tepu will be much less, almost half of what we would need.Then Marco proposed to leave for Tepu by canoe on Saturday. This worked out fine. The people of Palumeu arranged it very well and so we went on our way to Tepu and can start the training there tonight.

We would like to ask your attention to the

Wayana Canada Mission Project

at the top of our homepage.