In the Bush Bush

After being on the Iris base for about a week, my team went out to the "bush bush" with several Mozambiquan pastors and translators for two nights and three days. I brought a tent, sleeping bag, water bottle, malaria medication and bug repellant, and a clean shirt. We piled onto two cameons (open flatbed trucks) and rode about two hours to a very small village. They were miles from any town, and had no water supply.
While some teams visited villages that had never heard the Gospel or seen white people, this village had been visited by an Iris team about a year before. We were there to follow up and to dedicate the church that had recently been built. It was a very small building made of sticks, stones, and mud to hold it all together. Long grasses were tied together and laid on a frame of sticks to make the roof.
When we arrived, we set up our tents in the pastor's dirt "yard," men on the outside and women on the inside. The kids were very excited to see us, crowding all around us.
There were so many beautiful faces!