January - February 2009 Simona Caba
Dearest and precious friends and family,
It will be a wonderful year. I cannot wait for “tomorrow”,
to see where God is taking us. In the same time I am also
enjoying the day of today with all my heart. Not only I
will say that God is here with us but now I can say that we
are with Him in Heavenly
Places. He moved us with Him
and I don’t want to live in the
same earthly way old life. I
used to enjoy for glimpses of
His manifested Kingdom and
Presence. And living upon the
revelation He will give me
when I was in His presence –
for the next days or even
months. But now I believe in
staying with Him, living in Heavenly Places every
moment of my life. This way I will know His secrets and
plans for me and the people He brings in my life. I heard
His Call for this intimacy with Him since I was a child.
He was speaking to me the same thing in different ways
depending on the level I was. But the essence of His Call
was the same. He wants to seat with me in Heaven, being
part of His Counsel, sharing always with others His heart
and dreams. When I look back I see that I wasn’t ready to
pay the price to get there: giving up on good for His best.
That was the hardest decision to make. But I am ready
now and I know that it will not be easy and it will be a
process but I am into it, I am going for it!!!
Youth Conferences last
year were good, I learned
a lot, we saw youth
coming to know Jesus in
intimacy but I believe
God has much more for
us beginning with this
year. I want to see youth
coming as a holy army to
take over their nation. I
want to see them
delivered, healed and full
of the Holy Spirit.
From all of the conferences from last year I enjoyed the
most the one we had here in Inhaminga. And that was
because we had to build on something that we already
started before, we worked with our own youth; we already
ministered to majority of them at different levels.
Afrika Wa Yesu – Inhaminga, Mozambique
Also we had more help from the Mozambicans: team and
youth. Mariano and Lino were helping so much and I
enjoyed seeing them training youth to do their work. I am
looking forward to the day that the youth we are investing
so much here in Inhaminga will do everything by them
selves. We had the help of 3 Afrika Wa Yesu evangelists:
Josias, Rito and Lucas. Also some of our Bible School
graduates were taking responsibilities and they were such
a blessing. I was so grateful to God and so happy to see
Santos (from our youth group Inhaminga that also
graduated last year our Bible School and Vocational
School) serving and ministering to his own generation.
He is so gifted to teach and preach as a true Mozambican
leader.
Messica
It was a very good
idea to spend some
time together with our
youth group in a very special and beautiful place. We had
fun, praise and pray together and share our hearts and
plans for the future. I was surprised to see some of them
that would never speak or come out from their place
taking initiative and just blossom in everything was
happening.
All of them came from there changed at some level. It is
very important to spend time together. It opens them up.
Two of them: Joao and Abednego decided by them selves
to start teaching the children from the village to read and
write and help them with their homework.
It is their vision, their “baby” and they are so serious
about it. Tuesday to Friday they have more than 100 kids
coming to “Anapiana Wa Yesu” to this program. I am so
proud of them.
Starting with this month
we decided to change
some things regarding
how we will work with
the youth in Inhaminga.
We opened Saturdays
mornings to all youth so
we will have Youth
Church from 9 – 12 am
every Saturday at Afrika Wa Yesu Church. We want to
see the youth from Inhaminga radically changed for Jesus.
Saturdays night we will start small groups with the ones
we were working for long time, training them to be
leaders. Next step will be that they will come soon to a
point to initiate their own small group, involving the
youth that is participating Saturday mornings.
As I write I am getting excited trusting God for all the
new places and things He is going to take us.
Pomene for Jesus
The 2 weeks spent in Pomene
was a very special time for me. It
was good for the spirit, soul and
body. The beauty of that place
always made me think of God’s
beauty. One of the mornings
when I was worshiping God I
realized that actually His beauty
is much more than what my limited eyes can see and my
mind can imagine. His beauty is in fact His purity and
holiness. He is clothed in righteousness and majesty. It is
hard to imagine the color of holiness and the beauty of
righteousness. But it made me to desire much more to
cleanse my spirit and soul and let His beauty be mine, too.
We spend almost a week in Muchungu (across the river
from Pomene, where we just plant a church). Not being
able to announce our visit before we took everyone by
surprise. In the last 3 months their small church was
getting weaker: there were Sundays with no church
service, Joaquim and Filipe (our AWY graduates) were
kind of discouraged. When we went house to house
evangelism, I felt that people are more open to the Gospel
than before. We had new people coming to Jesus and they
came next Sunday to our meeting. There is still no church
building but we were able to worship God under a nice
shade where we used to meet last year. Children there are
like always: hungry for love and God’s protection.
We spent lots of time encouraging Joaquim and Filipe. As
they are very young they needed to be lifted up and
encouraged but also reminded of their commitment to
God while they were in the Bible School. It was very
hard for them coming back home after 6 months at AWY
Bible School and face their own people, families, old
costumes and habits alone. Even they were challenged
and got little weak they are still standing up and I still
believe in their future and destiny with God. The church
and people of Muchungu still need our help and lots of
care. We decided to leave the evangelists Rachid and
Ilario there for 2 months, without returning to Pomene.
They have lots of
plans and new
strategies to concur
that place for Jesus.
May God bring
them to a place of
growth in Him,
using them for His
glory.
In Pomene we
stayed longer. Even
some things I needed to do there were new to me, I loved
the challenge and the stretch in my character and work. I
just love those people so much and even I got
disappointed sometimes, I still believe that God also love
them very much and still has a plan for them.
It is true that Anisio (chief’s son who graduated our Bible
School last year) needs some help in his character but it is
also true that since he came from the Bible School he is a
different man as he was known before. He never drank
alcohol since than and he is faithful to his wife and
children. Taking in consideration that he is one of the few
that is not messing around with women and not drinking
in Pomene. I believe that is a praise report. From the time
when he got back home he is facing problems that he
doesn’t necessary know how to resolve it. People look at
him as their leader and any complication and problem
breaks on his head together with offenses and insults.
Since we left in September nobody took responsibility to
teach the children the Word of God. Some of them are
growing and they are really tempted and challenged to
walk on the path their parents are. But coming back to
church is not hard for them. They have now Graca – one
of their teachers from the School. She is sweet, loves
them and loves God. May God keep her like that; even
she lives in such a dangerous place.
We choose to live on the edge with God. Our hands are
actually full: with one of them we hold on you and with
the other one to the people that are living on the other
side that need our help. Together only we can bring the
Will and Kingdom of God on this earth. Thank you again
for your faithfulness and prayers that keep us strong.
In Christ love,
Simona Caba

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