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Kantel's Africa Report (August '09)
Iris Pemba has hosted hundreds of visitors over the past three months—in addition to more than a hundred Missions School students and 150 Mozambican student pastors in our Bible School. There have been many, many evangelistic outreaches into the bush...with much fervent worship in response to miracles and salvations...and great expectancy for more...!
Now most of the visitors and Missions School students are back home and the student pastors have returned to their isolated bush churches. And we missionaries, who worked so hard to facilitate all the activities of the past months, are left to wonder about the lasting fruit of all this fervency. Was it just an experience...to be remembered, but not repeated? Or have lives been changed, vision transformed, for time and eternity?!
The giant mango trees in this region may be a living parable in response to this question. During the season of abundant rain, their trunks and branches absorb the water needed for the dry months ahead. They actually produce their succulent fruit during the driest part of the year and the mango harvest in November is a harbinger of the rains which follow in December. Right now, when everything else is parched and brown, the mango trees have suddenly exploded with tiny new fruit the size of peas: an abundance of fruitfulness and the promise of a rich harvest to come.  FULL STORY
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