The Bennetts In Africa

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Second trip to Malawi more pics

Praise in front of large crowd for Jesus film

Simon invites all to pray to recieve the Holy Spirit

All bow their heads to pray

Isaac illustrates a point with two young volunteers

Wow! What a dance celebration ended the weekends outreach.

Isaac teaching a class

Attendees stand to do their scripture memorisation

Simon prays for fresh annointing of the power and gifts of the Holy Spirit

Isaac hears from the Lord with the attendees

Simon presenting certificate to Blessing.

Simon and Praise with Maston

Attendees with their certificates with Isaac, Praise and Simon

Praise with the chief of the second village we visited

Isaac presents a bicycle to pastor of rural church to use for church planting

Monday, May 31, 2010

Second trip to Malawi

Crowd gathers as we show Jesus film

A very attentive audience

Praise teaching.

Praise teaches the word!

Charity faithfully taking notes.

Isaac teaching

During celebration

Still enjoying the celebration

Crowd gathers for second crusade

Praise distributes Chichewa tracts

Old and new church members at Ncheu

Mathhews (r) faithful follow-uper!

Simon presents new bike for Mark and Charity

Best of friends ..Praise and Charity

Isaac with children from rural area.

Praise with children from the rural area

Showing Jesus movie in Marco's school in Chipata

Monday, April 19, 2010

The camper coming together inside

Will and his wife Brunella needed a place to stay for a month and have been an invaluable help as my carpentry abilities are limited to putting up very crooked shelves.

Gemma lends a hand as we prepare some wood for the camper.

The benches/beds for the bank in our garage.

The camper truck outside with some of the stuff that we took out of it.

The girls on their way to school..(gemma has a dress up day)... with Scotch.

The empty camper stripped inside.

Simons mum came for a visit in February and enjoyed the pool and being in africa

A stunning sunset over the pool.

Well its been an embarassingly long time since we made a post but I think circumstances have played a part!

I made a trip with some young people to Zambia. We peformed street theatre at different colleges and universities in Lusaka and the northern city of Ndola. It went very well .

The day I came back Natasha went to Durban to be with a friend for the birth of her third baby having attended the first two in England. She came back two weeks later.

Meanwhile I was left to make the final decision about buying a camper vehicle, a Nissan cabstar . We prayed about it and I receievd the quote "Dont look a gift horse in the mouth." So we went ahead and bought it. We want to make it available not only for our family but for other extended trips into Africa and so we took out everything out, repaired some internal flaws and now are in the process of building a six-8 berth camper inside. Like most things this is a bigger job than we first imagined but it is now taking shape and I hope to take it for a test run up to Malawi on May 11th, God willing.

The children have just finished their easter holidays which was generally enjoyed by them all. Shawn is happy to be back to school so he can get stuck into the rugby. Gemma went to a few holiday craft activities at school which she really enjoyed. But she wasn't so keen to get back into her uniform this morning.

Natasha is coming back to England for just about two weeks at the end of April to visit her mum and our son Sam as well as other friends. Here are some of the best pictures from the last few months!

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Malawi Update

We have been in communication with Maston in malawi and looking at ways to develop the work there.

1) We will be translating and printing a tract in Chichewa that we will take up to Malawi on our next visit, God willing, in May, when we will also hold another training seminar,

2) We are in communication with Maston about ways to help his pastors by sponsoring bicycles, assisting in evangelistic crusades etc

3) We will also be boosting his fund to build a training centre in Lilongwe on land that is already owned by the church.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Amanda busy !

The centre for children with HIV

Amanda with friends Beth and Tirzah

Amanda helping to paint the centre

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Cape Town Trip

Here are some rather random picturesfrom our Cape Town Trip.... Shawn with friends in the kitchen

here is Mari with some largish bouncers outside the club where we performed the skit (below)

I've forgotten what this is called the blanket cloud or eiderdown clouds where the layer of cloud sits and hugs the top of the mountain...beautiful!

Shawn relaxed and happy during a trip to Fishhoek ...... (this was the place where a man from Zimbabwe was eaten by a shark a week after our visit)...we didn't go the beach preferring the fishing harbor and pier

People fishing of the pier

Any scraps for me?.. a rather corpulent fellow who was swimming around and coming up regularly on the steps for treats ........

.......from the locals who were cutting up the fish a few yards away...