Hello Dear Friends,
Hallelujah! What a Savior! Jesus has been working in your lives and has
certainly been here with us.
Recently Melissa and
I made our last trip to train rural church leaders and their wives. About 60 were
able to attend. The brothers and sisters
there were very overwhelmed with gratitude for the teaching. Check out some of the videos of this time at http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4uga2zUjKrDZmfWuoQ6_Xw?feature=guide. We spent the first day covering essential elements
of God’s Good News. They were excited to
hold their own copy of the Makua Bible materials
that I wrote and had translated. The
second day we covered several key marriage topics. There was a lot of giggling and joy as we
led them in a practice round of the couples looking into each other’s eyes and
asking one another for forgiveness. To
our astonishment, none of them had ever before said that they were wrong or said
to their spouse that they were sorry.
Many expressed great sorrow when we told them about our need to leave
Mozambique. We felt like Paul leaving
the Ephesian elders in Acts 19. We
shared many tears together, knowing we may never see each other again until
heaven. The parting hugs were sweet!
The thrilling memory
of Martin Luther, busy at his press, came to our minds as we spent several
weeks printing the over 400 pages of Portuguese materials developed during
these last five years along with the translation into Makua. The Lord blessed us to distribute this to many
church leaders/missionaries and to several key missions with training centers
for pastors so that the teaching is available to study, copy, and distribute freely. Makua resources are as rare as hen’s teeth,
so we received many heartfelt thanks to pass on to you who have sustained us
during this labor of love. See all the
resources you were a part of creating at www.beatoday.org/Novos_Caminhos_Makuas.htm
We fly out of
Nampula tomorrow, Tuesday morning, to arrive in KC late Thursday, Lord willing. Please pray for us as we still have a busy schedule
when we arrive back.
·
October 1st - 8th: Purchasing a vehicle.
·
Oct 8th - 15: Traveling to a missionary debriefing and resting
in Indiana.
·
Oct 15th…: Finding a place to rent until next August
(unless the man renting our Leavenworth home changes his mind and exits the
lease early so that we could live there:)
·
Oct 22nd – Nov 8th: Traveling
to Arizona for a big reunion of Melissa’s family then traveling to Colorado for
a marriage renewal week for missionaries and pastors.
·
Getting Elijah and Esther settled. Elijah is still not sleeping at night after
the attempted robbery.
·
Enjoying our family and grandchildren…
We praise God for
the many wonderful friends we have made and will continue to keep, both in the
U.S. and in Mozambique.
We love you,
Daniel & Melissa
Maddux
With Elijah and Esther
