I want to write short memos like this one each month, instead of the larger “Windscreen and Mirror” newsletter we’ve been sending over the past few years. Please feel free to dialogue with me about anything they say, and the invitation still stands for you to send us any news items to be shouted from the Vineyard’s rooftop. Which reminds me:
A memo from Costa
A Year Planning Memo
Dear Everyone
It’s been a while since you heard from me in this format – sorry for the mental absence. Late last year I was practising keeping my head down so as to reach the end of 2008; then we had a late holiday; then the year had started without us, so I had to run to catch it; then PAVLN leadership conference had to be arranged; then my mother broke her hip and I cancelled going to Dar es Salaam to see her through the crisis; and so now, here I am, I can do no other, so help me God (that was Luther’s quote, Brett!) ![]()
Mozambique Gathering
When: 29 June - 3 July 2009
Where: Gondola Mozambique
Who should attend?
1. Leading Mozambican pastors and missionaries;
2. Mission partnerships working in Mozambique.
3. Key leaders are being asked to bring 2 – 5 people each.
Contact: Sam Kisten | Email | Tel (mobile) + 27 83 4010319 | P.O. Box 56630 Chatsworth 4030, Chatsworth
In The News: Willow Hill VCF
The Roodepoort Record reports the following about Willow Hill Vineyard:
“Although the Willow Hill Vineyard Christian Fellowship is a multi-faceted church one of its most fundamental tenets is the importance of people and their relationships. ![]()
June-July trip to Malawi & Mozambique
1. 10 of us flew to Nairobi (Kenya) where we enjoyed great hospitality from Karen Vineyard leaders. We caught a bus to Arusha (Tanzania) where we were wonderfully hosted by David and Judi Owens and the Arusha VCF. We enjoyed a really great time of connecting and ministering with these people who appreciated connection with the Vineyard Movement. ![]()
Getting to grips with Zimbabwe
The people are still among the nicest, friendliest, most warmly hospitable in the world. I sometimes think this, their greatest strength, is also their greatest weakness, for it is perhaps the reason why they have put up with tyranny for so long, until now it is probably too late to resist…
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