IMC Project Updates

In 2003 Betty and our daughter Renee had the desire to go to Africa.
After then receiving a magazine from the Toronto Airport Church that spoke of Rolland and Heidi’s work in Mozambique, the decision was made.

The reintegration team worked hard in 2011, reuniting 67 children/youth with their families and building 17 houses, either to provide for community parents so that their children could stay with them in their homes, or to enable children to reunite with their families.

The team averages between 15 and 20 visits a week, mostly assessing new children for admission, but also making home visits of our current children to assess the home situation.

Meet Louisa, an albino widow who has 4 children. We found her living in very poor conditions. As she has 4 children, we could not place her in the widows’ house. Louisa lives in a spare house at the youth project at Maracuene. She has a small business. Last week her Mom was visiting (what a great family photo!!).

"Everything is overshadowed by the death of one of our missionaries here at Iris. One of our missionaries, Daryl Martin, got too close to some elephants and paid with his life. Still, something amazing happened in the midst of elephants charging, autopsy, wake, service of memory, and burial. All 75 of our Iris children who live on site in 5 homes have lost both parents. They have suffered loss compounded by rejection and abandonment. The children suffered another loss, and yet this time they are older and able to process. There was great wailing and crying.