May you know God's blessing and joy this weekend in all you do.
Ian
Dear all,
First we would like to apologise for being less regular with these prayer updates. Everything has been a bit irregular and up the air over the last few months, as you all know well, so we didn’t get round to sending this. You have all been in our thoughts and prayers over the last few months. It is strange to think about how Covid-19 has brought much of the world to a standstill but here, even though we have some restrictions in place, we are not in lockdown and so have a little more freedom than you do, although we are still taking care of ourselves and others.
The schools here closed at the same time as in the UK even though there were still no official cases of the virus. We currently have 80 official cases in the country, though I’m not sure we will ever really know how far it has spread due to a lack of tests available, and people not going for testing. Also there is are a lot of deaths here and most of the time the reason for dying is unknown. The president has said we will continue as we are until the end of May, with schools, Churches, entertainment venues closed. Shops shut early and masks must be worn when in public places. If you want to learn more, go to our blog at https://lsvilela.wordpress.com and you can see some photos too.
Sergio is continuing to coordinate and monitor the rebuilding of the PEPEs during this time and Liz has been involved in a BMS project of giving out soap and teaching how to hand wash properly to the PEPE teachers, who then have been distributing it to the parents. It’s one of the ways we felt we could help at this time. We have other projects that could be happening soon and we will let you know about them.
Chloe and Joshua are doing school at home. It’s funny to be back doing home school when I thought those days were done, but it’s a bit more helpful this time to have some work sent home from the school to keep Chloe busy. They strangely appear to be enjoying being at home, to be honest there isn’t a lot to do here even if we could, but we do like to have a walk on the beach each day. There are some trees that had fallen from the cyclone that are good for climbing and some rocks, so we have a good natural playground for the children to play.
We are unsure what the next few months will look like here so we are not planning too much or expectant but prepared for anything to happen.
It seems strange to ask for your prayers at this time as the UK is in a more difficult situation than us right now, but we will continue to pray for you and hope that the virus spread will begin to slow and people will be safer. Please pray for us, that the virus doesn’t spread and take a hold of Mozambique. The numbers are going up very slowly so hopefully they won’t rise very high. Pray for wisdom for BMS and us while we sort out other projects to help the people here. Even though Covid-19 isn’t directly affecting people here right now, lots of people are out of jobs due to a decrease in the number of people who can work at any one time. We are glad there is no lockdown as people wouldn’t be able to survive without going out to the streets and making money, but others are still being affected. Please pray for them.
We hope you have been able to have a read of our recent prayer letter, and please look at our blog, and we have a video that we made that you can access too, I think on the BMS website.
Take care, God bless, and stay safe.
Love Liz, Sergio, Chloe and Joshua
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