Recent Trip

David is back from his latest workshop. It took him to Opuwo and Ruacana. You will see one of the pix I have posted is of Ruacana Falls, the 6th largest-volume falls in Africa (Victoria is 4th largest). With all the rain he says, even as far away as he was, the sound of the thundering water was loud.
One church he visited had a skinned goat hanging up (see pic)!!! The corrugated iron is a windbreak against the elements coming in the glassless windows. I sometimes try to imagine people from churches we know in Aus and SA coming into such a church – wondering how they would react, and how easy it would be to concentrate on the service, knowing there is a carcass just behind you! (Sorry about the quality of pic – David had a car accident whilst he was away and the camera did not fully recover from the ordeal! David expected the car to roll but we thank God that the wheel rim buckled as it met an immovable object. This ruined the wheel but saved the car … and David. The dirt roads have no traction in the rains.)
The rains prevented the Angolan pastors from making it over the border to the workshops. But farmers welcome the rains - even though they are so late.
(3rd pic) He met up with a graduate of NETS who is now working with a team to translate the Bible into Dhimba; a people group David did not previously know existed.
The 4th photo is inside the church in Opuwo. From the outside it looks like a broken-down shack but inside the Afrikaans pastor (who speaks fluent Otjiherero) has a sound system and data projector and a thriving church. David did one of his workshops here (Opuwo means ‘the end’ or ‘enough’ and is really the last town as you go west. It is the gateway to Kaokoland and the Himba.)