IMC Missionary Updates

Don and Elizabeth are beginning their eighth year of service with Iris in Pemba in northern Mozambique. When they began in 2005, the region was very remote and backward…locked in the grip of severe poverty and 90% unemployment…and the last to feel any benefit from economic and social development initiatives originating in the nation’s capital 2,000 kms to the south. At that time, there were relatively few vehicles on Pemba’s crumbling roads; and it was a rarity to see a Mozambican behind the wheel of a private vehicle, no matter how derelict.

Here it is, time again for another update on how the Father has been moving here in Pemba. Once again He has stretched me in the most uncomfortable and yet the most marvellous of ways.

Iris Ministries in many ways has developed an ideal model for post-modern missions. Iris is expanding internationally in response to needs and opportunities all over the world…with much of that expansion being initiated by energetic and visionary graduates of Iris’ Harvest Mission School in Pemba. Heidi and Rolland’s vision is to replicate the Iris DNA in this next generation of world-changers and then release and empower them to give those unifying core values particular strategic expression in new contexts as the Holy Spirit leads and directs.

Once again, 2012 started with some health challenges in the Morrison home.  Kalina suffered another round of sinus infection.  We had a nasty virus run through the base.  Patrick was down for ten days with fever, a sore throat and exhaustion, most unlike my 16 year old action man.  Daniel had an episode of severe abdominal pain, which doctors think was caused by a small stone. In the midst of these challenges, villages around us suffered severe flooding.  Many homes were completely washed away, and others were damaged beyond repair.