God moves in mysterious ways.
During a 2007 visit to the House of Ants, projection equipment was taken and offered to enable the “Jesus Film” to be presented in the local Shona dialect.
Various churches and open air venues have been covered since that time resulting in a number of people committing their lives to Christ, including a teacher of the blind who heard the message and asked if further teaching could be given to his class of blind and partly sighted students.
Some of the House of Ants Bible School students started discipleship classes twice a week for this group, the result being that there are now 30 people hearing and learning the Word of God.
Since many cannot read or write a teacher from the Maputo University, who is also blind, has agreed to teach Braille to this group. At the same time a Portuguese Braile Bible has been made available and this teacher is printing sections of the Bible in Braile for those who are interested.
Delci Prayer Requests:
1) For wisdom how to proceed, as this group is growing in number, and since God has allowed the House of Ants to be involved in this project they feel it a duty to help these blind people to find Jesus Christ as their Saviour.
2) Each blind person coming to these classes is also accompanied by a sighted person who helps them, so in this way they also hear the Word of God during the lessons.
3) Materials and special paper to print in Braille are urgently required to enable more people to learn God’s Word for themselves.
Other Prayer Requests:
1) For many years a church in the USA had been covering the running costs of Delci’s apartment in the centre of Maputo, which includes feeding and clothing the 15 small children who live with her have any families who can care for them.
Without any prior notice the church has stopped the monthly gift of 500 US dollars, which has left Delci in difficulties, since she cannot use any of the other funds for this purpose, as these are required for the main House of Ants expenses.
2) A young man who works at the Bakery in the House of Ants is causing Delci much heart ache since he has started drinking heavily and spending his time in bars and clubs.
Delci has considered dismissing this young man, but knows that if she does so he will go from bad to worse since he has limited learning abilities. He has made a commitment of his life but never fully walked in the ways of the Lord.
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