Background:

After spending 3 years at bible college, Keith Eden accepted a call to Missions in Northern Mozambique in 1998. He joined an orphanage in the province of Niassa, district of  Majune, where he continued to minister and work for the next 7 years.  He and Bronwyn were married in 2000 after which they returned to the bush and continued to care for the children at Aldeia de Amor while planting a church.  In 2005 their daughter Zoe was born and when she was 9 months old they felt the Lord move them on to Malawi for a time.  For three and a half years they volunteered at grace farm, an orphanage and mission station,  in Namwera.  During this time they were able to see a church planted and a bible school established.  During this time God was birthing and growing a vision in their hearts for the lake district in Niassa province back in Northern Mozambique....
They returned to Mozambique in 2007 to work among the unreached Yao people in the villages up the shore from Meponda...

Location:

Meponda is located 60km West of Lichinga, the capital of Niassa Province in Northern Mozambique.

Vision:

To plant churches in the few villages North of Meponda, discipling believers in order to equip them for reaching the lost  and helping them to get grounded in the Word of God.

Mission:

Working hand in hand with local pastors and believers to evengelise the lost of the lakeshore district.

Equipping them with the word of God.

Assisting these workers to establish income generating projects to sustain themselves and their families in ministry.

Establishing a base at meponda from which to accomplish these activities.

Planting schools and clinics in these isolated areas manned by believers.

Current activities:

We are joined by 2 beautiful local believers Verniz, and Abubakar and their families.  Verniz has been evangelizing in the province for many years.

Abubakar has just attended a 3 month church planting school and is getting ready to move into the next village approx:20km north of Meponda.

Keith is presenting a chronological teaching throught the bible to a group of pastors who head their respective denominations in the capital.

We are hard at work erecting basic buildings to establish the base.

Verniz is establishing a church with the handful of believers in Meponda.

Bronwyn has a beading project with a group of local women.  This provides income for them as well as presenting a great opportunity for ministry through relationship building in a predominantly muslim area.

Why local pastors?

After observing and implementing various methoods over the past 10 years we have seen that as outsiders in a complex culture there is often only a measure of success in reaching people.  Though we are able to speak Portuguese, the official language,  the mother tongue, Yao, is much more comlpex.  It is natural that the local believers would have more of an impact on their own people.  Their understanding of the complexities of their own people gives them a much better grounding from which to Evangelize... Our evangelism is often met with comments like.."  that is your God"  or " It works for you because you are a foreigner." Local believers do not encounter these stumbling blocks.

In a culture governed by fear the testimonies of those that have been delivered from the trap thereof is often more powerful than anything we can share.