Easter weekend

How was your Easter weekend?
‘And how was ours?’ you may ask!

David, getting over a chesty cough, set out on Easter Friday to Ondangwa, 30 minutes’ away, for a church service followed by a workshop. He came home 10,5 hours’ later … after dropping people off all over the place!
In a land where all are blind, the one-eyed man is king.
In a land where most people have to walk everywhere, the man with a car is a taxi!

Talking of taxis, last week there was a terrible head-on collision down towards Windhoek. A ute/bakkie carrying 5 people in the back overtook into the path of a minibus taxi. A number of people were killed instantly. Willem and Ditteke, David’s boss and his wife, had decided to drive through Botswana to Vic Falls for the Easter weekend. However, on the first evening their car hit a cow and had to be towed away. They were unscathed. However, these incidents remind us of how David has traveled literally 1000s of kms in the North, on dirt roads with cattle, kudu, goats and people prone to cross at unexpected times. And with local taxis stopping in front of you or overtaking with no warning. Yet he has only had one accident and even then God preserved his life in a miraculous way. We do not take your prayers for his safety lightly!

We had a full house over the weekend. Caris and Étienne both had a friend to sleep over, plus Nicky and Aune, plus a ‘single’ guy we know who would have been on his own over the weekend came over in the evenings for a meal and some fellowship.

Nicky was able to go to church with Justina (see previous prayer points) on Sunday. However, the cow stomach meal served up afterwards rather threw her!

I had a chance on Good Friday and Easter Sunday to share with a few children the glorious news of why Jesus chose to go to the cross and the implications of his resurrection! After scouring shops in vain for Easter eggs, Nicky happened across a bag of little ones in the corner of a shop. So the children enjoyed that treat, too. (Actually, when in a supermarket a couple of weeks’ ago Caris pointed to a promotional picture and asked what the ‘clay rabbit’ was for. I explained to her it was meant to be a chocolate Easter bunny!)

Sunday was bucketing down. Late – but welcome – rain for the crops. David, with Aune as interpreter, was to preach at a church north of Oshakati. A little place called Omugwelume where the church is falling down. But first he had to drive down to Ondangwa to pick up the Onamambili choir and take all 15 of them with him back up to Omugwelume. David preached, Aune interpreted and the choir sang. Then they had to take the choir back down to Ondangwa, before heading back home! (See photos)

Because of the cross, we are in Namibia. Thank you for supporting us so that we can be here.