Dear family in Christ

We apologize for the long newsletter, but we had a wonderful 3 months in Namibia!

Since our last newsletter, we left Outjo and went to Tsumeb. We stayed there for 2 days. In that beautiful town we did some street evangelism. We even went to a stopped at a bus stop and preached to them. They applauded the message! We unfortunately could not stay for long and had to leave for Ongwediva.

Jono believed the Lord for some youthful acquaintances and lo and behold, the Lord sent 18 young Americans from YWAM to the base station where we were sleeping. We spent a few lovely days with the YWAMers, ministering in taxis, streets and in a church. We also spent precious time in prayer, intercession and worship.

After saying our goodbyes, we headed for Ruacana. We had to wait for hours for a taxi to our next destination. We finally got a ride in a taxi without a window.
The taxi driver drove about 50 – 60 km/h! It took us 4 hours to get to Ruacana in a cramped taxi! What’s worse is it started to rain hard! Very hard! We tried to stop the water from coming in by closing the window with a plastic bag, but that just diverted the water straight to us! We were soaking wet! What’s worse is that our bags were in an open trailer, so our back-packs were soaking wet too! What a nightmare!

Fortunately, when we got there, God sent a pastor to save us from this catastrophe. We stayed in his church for the night. Although this pastor was very hospitable, staying in his church was another interesting experience. His church had a roof, but no walls and the mosquitoes formed clouds within his church!

The next morning, we met some hard-core missionaries, Quinton & René. We fellowshipped with them for a few hours.

Later we went to stay in a caravan park. We had to stay in our tent for a full day due to rain! (62mm of rain in one day!) Late at night when Jono went to the bathroom, he nearly jumped through the roof from fright when he saw an ant as big as his whole hand! (Some brave missionary he turned out to be, huh?) The very next day we ministered in a church and 3 young ladies got saved. Praise the Lord!

Coming back we got a lift with a mad man! This fellow could speak sailor fluently! Seriously, he could swear the wallpaper off the wall! We tried to minister to him, but he just turned the radio louder, but we still tried. We finally stopped trying when he almost stopped the car to start a fight with a bull! It took us 1.5 hours to drive from Ruacana back to Ongwediva!

We stayed one more day with the Americans before heading back to Tsumeb. We waited for 2 hours for a taxi, got a beautiful taxi, drove for 15 minutes, had to get out, because the driver didn't want to stop in Tsumeb any more. We then got into a taxi in really bad condition and waited for 2 more hours for it to leave! When we finally got to Tsumeb’s caravan park, it started to rain hard once again! We then set up the tent in the cold rain!

This time we stayed in Tsumeb for much longer. We ministered and prayed for the sick in the streets. We also ministered in an AFM church and the next day we had the privilege to lead 12 Bushmen through the prayer of salvation.

We stayed at a lovely couple’s house, Barry and Mariaan Jacobs, for a couple of days. They felt led to give us their 1979 Range Rover to go through Africa!) Oh! We accepted this gift with open arms and grateful hearts for His faithfulness!)

We then went to Rundu in style!

In Rundu God blessed us with accommodation, breakfast and beautiful scenery in Sarasungu River Lodge. Then Barry and Mariaan drove 320km to give us more equipment and to visit us! The Range Rover is nearly full!

God is good!

While Len sat next to the river at Sarasungu Lodge, tearfully longing for the familiar, the precious Holy Spirit asked him, “Will you still go out and do what I want you to?” Len replied, “Yes, until I die or the Lord Jesus returns.”

* We made a commitment to the Lord that if He wants us to start walking/traveling again without the vehicle, then we will do so. We still believe we must walk some distances to minister to the people on the streets.
Now we believe God for equipment for Visual evangelism.

Please visit our website, www.travelmissions.org to see some photos of our latest experiences. For those of you that might have missed a few, our old newsletters are now also available for viewing on our website.

Please keep on praying for us.

In His service

Len and Jono