Dear Brethren,

I thank my Lord Jesus Christ for all of you who are working in the fields of the world to win souls to Him.

I am coming by way of this email to update you all on the work progressing here in Mozambique. We have had a number of significant victories here in the work and are praising the Lord for His goodness.

First is the quickness with which we received our residency papers. It only took two weeks from the day we put in the paperwork until we had our one year residency visas. Last time we applied, it took six months and ended up costing us more than four thousand dollars. It was a little over four hundred this time for both visas.

Next is the unexpected blessing of being able to buy a truck, just the truck we were looking for; for a good price, in good condition. I have to pinch myself occasionally to make sure I am not dreaming. I can assure you that we are not without our challenges; they are there and they are legion.

Beyond these blessings, we have been able to reintegrate into the work very rapidly. I have been preaching every week and we made our first trip into the interior this last weekend. God greatly blessed the meetings and half the church was at the altar at the invitation. Several salvation decisions were made and others for dedication to Christ.

We have begun Bible Institute classes on Saturday mornings. We presently have 9 adults attending and we are in communication with another church about bringing in their workers also.

We have been here for two months now and we are progressing towards building the security wall on the school property. We hope to have the wall built by the end of this year. With some outside financial help, we should be able to operate classes by September of 2011. It is our desire to bring in at least 6 men for two months blocks, twice a year, in two groups. This represents twelve men for four months each year.

We have laid out a three year program, roughly equivalent to an associate degree in the states. (number of hours) I really thank the Lord for the brethren in Brazil that have helped by providing some of their teaching outlines for us to use here. What a blessing. We are investigating the use of MP3 and video recordings to expand the scope of our teaching. Anyone with thoughts on that matter might communicate with me. I hate reinventing the wheel!

At present we only work in the Portuguese language. Anything in English could be a help but would have to be translated. Actually we work with people for whom Portuguese is a second language. We have hopes and long term plans for teaching in at least two of the African dialects but that is not for now.

Our biggest challenge is bringing in men who are already leading churches to be trained. They are spread out too much for us to teach them in place. That and the fact that there is no mail service in the rural areas. These men can’t be gone from their families and works for too long at once. Also, I believe that anything less than two months and we just won’t get enough teaching in them.

We ask for your prayers. Those who can and have interest in doing some hands on work here might consider coming for a week or a month and doing some teaching as a guest professor. Maybe you have a school and would like to start videotaping your classes. These sessions could be integrated and potentially broaden our program. They might also be a blessing to others in your area.

We have two construction teams that are discussing with us future trips to work on the buildings; one from the USA and one from England. We also have a good team in place here to do most of the construction that will be needed. Both the cement plant and the fibrocement factory are in sight of the house here so materials aren’t much of a problem. Actually we live in the engineering housing of the fibrocement factory.

I am very open to counsel and ideas from any and all so feel free to share your thoughts with me.

Last of all, thanks for taking the time to read this epistle. God bless you as you serve Him.

Yours for His sake,

Alan Hart