Heri za mwaka mpya 2009!

Happy New Year to you!

Well I guess I had better make a new years resolution to put some photos on this blog! (But not today!)
Our friend Rev. Malobo sent us the following information in regards to erecting a good quality building on the plot of land in Busimbe, Tanzania:

WIDOWS AND ORPHANS HOUSE cost ESTIMATES.
Iron sheets 72pcsx20000 = 1,421,250/
Woods 2x4 & 2x3 200pcs = 1,000,000/
Burnt bricks 20000pcsx50.05+ transport =1,010,000/
Stones for foundation 12 tripsx60000/= 720,000/
50 cement bagsx22,000 [foundation, plaster, ring beam] =1,100,000/
Building rods 25pcsx16000 = 400,000/
Woods 1x8, 40pcsx5000 = 200,000/
Floor 35cememnt bags x 22000 = 770,000/
Woods for door flames 2x5, 25pcsx6000 = 150,000/
Shuters for door 9pcsx50000 = 450,000/
9 windows x 50000 = 450,000/
Mortar 15 bagsx14000 = 210,000/
Oil paint 80lts x 750 = 600,000/
Transport 200,000/
Nails 25kgs = 100,000/
Sand 10 trips x60000 = 600,000/
Water 75,000/
TOTAL 9,475,000/
Labour Charge 2,790,000/
12,265,000/ ($15,801.820 NZD)

Well at least that gives us an idea of current costs.

What has the Mills family been up to...?
We are currently looking into the logistics of doing a YWAM (Youth With A Mission) Discipleship Training Programme (with Family emphasis) in Matamata half way through this year, about the same time the next little Mills is due.

We are very slowly uprooting ourselves from Pukekohe. This has been difficult as it was not (and is still not) a simple moving of house.
Currently learning about missional communities and how that would look in our western context (New Zealand - Rotorua - Pukekohe) and thinking through the ramifications of that within an African culture. (That is a group of Christians who live in close proximity to the people the are trying to reach through serving and living alongside and applying the gospel to each other on day to day basis - like as in Acts 2)
Boy I can see the problems that the ‘Established Church’ has and will cause in its approach make disciples of Jesus Christ. Very obvious in Africa...lots of ritual etc.
Christianity + Church Tradition = Confused People