Lichinga
URGENT REQUEST for 2,008!
Calling all those who want to invest in the Kingdom of God for the glory of the Lord, we need bricklayers, carpenters, electricians, handymen, landscapers, drivers, and plumbers to come and help in the great work God is doing here. There is so much to be done and we encourage you to contact us directly at pedlwilcox@gmail.com There is a big need for construction to take on speed and there is always more opportunity to build here at "Joy Village" and give a helping hand for the Kingdom of God!
This is a desperate need in Lichinga!
In northwest Mozambique near the Malawi border, Lichinga is a recent location in the province of Niassa. Building has just begun by Peter and Debbie Wilcox from Australia. Their twin daughters, recent graduates of the Holy Given Missions School in Pemba, Annelisa & Antoninette are an important part of the Lichinga Center. Other family members include son Elias and daughters Miriam-Sarai, Mikaila-Esther and Karmelie. The Wilcox family also cares for 7 Malawian children in their home. They range in age from 6-15 years old except for Rachel, a 20 year old, that is the size of an 11 year old.
Their contact information follows:
Address: C.P. 114, Lichinga 90100, Niassa, Mozambique
Cellphone: 258-82-390-0037
Website: www.mozoutreach.org
Email: pedlwilcox@gmail.com
Latest News from Lichinga
   
NEWS FROM
the WILCOX FAMILY (Our Bible School!)
“ Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.” Matthew 5:6
 I know with all my heart that the Bread of Life is ever present to feed the hungry; whether it be a tear-stained child, a madman tormented by demons and driven through the city streets shouting crazy things and picking up rubbish, a handicapped young beggar girl sitting by the bakery door, a woman searching the hillside incessantly for dry firewood in order to cook her family a meal…I look in my own hands; they are empty. I have nothing of my own to give. My own love, my own compassion will never fill the need! What do I say to the young lady standing before me in the store who looks at me with eyes reflecting an aching heart and says, “I’m an orphan”. How can I comfort the mother who has just lost a child for the second time in one year to pneumonia? What do I do when my heart starts to stir with desperation, and tears start to fall inside of me as groups of young teenagers stroll through the streets, their minds perverted with immorality and sexual perversion? My soul yearns for the spiritual chains to be loosed and blind folds removed when I hear the sound of beating drums and women chanting and they lead dozens of innocent little boys and girls to complete their initiation rights and endure sessions of heavy witchcraft. I have nothing of my own to give! But then I’m aware of a quiet knowing, a gentle reassuring voice that speaks to the depths of my heart and swells to flood my being with strength- for His voice is as many waters! Look at the rainbow of His promise!
“I am Your sufficiency, your all-in-all. I am the food you will give to the hungry, the water to the thirsty. My Holy Spirit will be the oil of healing that will flow through the aching heart, the Joy that will cause the tormented heart to dance. Take of Me and give Me to the nation, for these people perish for lack of knowledge.”
Everything the Lord does in the natural is to show us what He is doing in the spirit realm. Some months ago on a Sunday we didn’t have enough sima flour to make lunch for all 30+ people that live on Base. What were we going to do? We had to eat lunch! Yet what was in the basin was half of what we normally cooked and there was nothing else we could cook to go with our bean sauce. Aunty Violet called me over to the out-door kitchen. “I want you to help me pray for this flour, Annelisa,” she said. Yes. We were going to ask God to multiply it. I laid my hands over the basin and together with Aunty Violet we prayed. “Lord, You have to do a miracle! This is what we have to eat and we ask You to multiply it. We declare that everyone shall eat and be full. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.” Aunty Violet then left to change her Sunday clothes. A few minutes later she was called back in a hurry by her daughter, Maggie. “Mama, come quick! Look! I think there is going to be enough.” Aunty Violet looked into the basin, amazed at what she saw; the flour had almost doubled in quantity! “Ok,” she said. “Whoever is going to cook with me must have faith!” She had previously felt tempted to dump some of the water boiling in a pot on the charcoal fire as the flour we had was not going to be equal to the amount of water we normally mixed it in to make what we call sima(a very thick cornmeal mash). However, she had felt the Lord say, “Wait. Let Me do it.” So now, Aunty Violet poured the flour into the pot of hot water and stirred it with a wooden spoon, believing that nothing is impossible for our great God. As she served the children’s bowls and also the adults’, we saw a true miracle unfold. There was enough for everyone and even left overs in the pot! If we never come to a point of apparent need, an end to our human resources…the Lord will never have an opportunity to work miracles. Of course, if we think we have it all in control and can manage in our own sufficiency, then the miraculous never needs to invade our world! If in our own lives we do not feel a hunger and a thirst for more of Him, more of His righteousness – then we are never going to be filled. If there is no recognition that we are poor in spirit, naked, and in desperate need of Jesus, then His kingdom will never be ours. Right now in Lichinga, we are in desperation for more of His glory, His righteousness, more of HIM! We will die if we cannot have His presence! As our eyes behold what our God is doing in this city and the villages around, we know that it is the zeal of the Lord of hosts performing what He said He will do, “For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. And in that day there shall be a Root of Jesse, who shall stand as a banner to the people; for the Gentiles shall seek Him, and His resting place shall be glorious.” Isaiah 11:9,10
 I remember seeing the sea of faces below me, starved for the Truth, as I stood on the back of the flatbed truck a few months ago and told nearly 1,000 people how Jesus died to set them free from the kingdom of darkness that they might give their lives to Him and walk in eternal freedom. About 600 hands lifted that night to receive Jesus as their Savior. They shouted, “We owe our lives to You, Jesus!” This was the Father redeeming a people to Himself. Yet salvation does not end there…the people must come into a new way of life, washed by the blood and regeneration of the Word. But how can you teach 600 new converts the foundations of the Christian life? We face the dynamics of raising up leaders and pastors who will tend the sheep. It has been our heart for sometime to see couples and individuals from the Yao tribe trained and founded in the Word of God and then sent out in bands of 3 or 4 people to permeate other villages in the surrounding mountains, as well as their own, with the fragrance and knowledge of the wonderful saving Love of Jesus. As we have cried out to the Lord for this to be made possible, His own zeal has performed it and His very hand has now made a way. Last week, the Lord placed in our possession Mama Elena’s old house, together with the 5 hectares of land around it! Haleluia!! It was truly a miracle how it all happened and within a week of processing documents the place was ours. The old house still has to be renovated, the grounds cleared, and little mud huts set up for student couples to stay in, as our vision is to also see husbands and wives raised up together. We are literally bursting with joy and gratitude to our precious Heavenly Father…the Yao people will be fed with His Word in their very own dialect and setting. The Yao are basically an unreached people group, most of them are illiterate and uneducated, and a lot of them don’t speak the official language, Portuguese. Gathering to hear about Jesus
 I am right now, teaching one Yao lady how to read in her own dialect(complicated when I don’t even speak it, but Jesus is helping me!). Her name is Lucia and many of you will remember her as the demon-possessed lady that had gone crazy as a result of her father doing witchcraft against her. Jesus has set her free and now she loves Him with all her heart. She lives in the mountains and faithfully travels from her village, Sambula, to worship the Lord at church every Sunday morning. It takes her about 3hrs walking! This sweet woman asked the church last Sunday to pray that she would receive the strength she needs to keep walking the huge distance. We would like to establish a church in her village. She is the only baptized believer that we know of in her village at the moment and the villagers can’t believe how she has been healed and set in her right mind! Please be praying for her these days as she said on Sunday that she is feeling spiritually attacked. She is waiting on
Annelisa teaching Lucia to read, with Debbie on the left and Mikaila on the right
the Lord for a husband, only wanting to marry someone who loves Jesus very much. Before she knew Jesus she had 5 children, all to different men. Please be covering her with the blood of Jesus and intercede for her future husband, a man who is faithful, loves the Lord with all his heart, will love Lucia(not just marry her for gain!), and who shines as a light in his village.
We also want to thank every single person who has given financially for the building of the Girls’ home. There is still a lot of work to be done on the inside before we can officially open, but it’s almost there! Truly, we can never explain how this Home has come into being…all we can say is, “Lord, You’ve done it!” His faithfulness is as strong and sure as the mountains that surround our home. The Lord has given us a name for this first girls’ house, “Casa de Belleza” (House of Beauty). We believe that in this refuge the Lord is going to restore these 24 little girls’ lives and cause them to bring forth the inner beauty that He has placed inside of them. Our cry is that this home be His resting place, and that in it He would find great joy and delight.
Thank you to everyone who has been praying for Daddy’s shoulder. His cast is off now and he is regaining the full use of his shoulder.
“May the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”
Lot of love in Jesus,
Peter, Debbie, Annelisa, Antoinette, Elias, Miriam, Mikaila, and Karmelie February News
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you…” 1 Peter 1:3,4
 What a heritage this family has in the Lord! A year and 7 mths ago Aunty Violet, her 5 orphaned grandchildren, and 2 daughters, Rachel and Ellen…joined our family at “House of Rest”, a home we’ve been allowed to live in free of rent, thanks to a kind Portuguese gentleman, Sr.Neves.
We’d met Aunty Violet in an Assemblies of God church in the city one Sunday and without us knowing her situation, God spoke to
Just Arrived, 2006, Debbie saying, “This woman is a Naomi”.
Antoinette, Ellen, Blessings, Matoni, Sara, Rachel, Aida, and Magi
On visiting her they found this dear, middle-aged Malawian surviving by the grace of God and the kindness of church believers, together with her widowed 24yr. old daughter and 3 yr. old grandson, 5 other grandchildren, and her 2 younger daughters, Ellen(14) and Rachel(20). Two little rooms made up the whole house and they hadn’t eaten a proper meal for three days. Widowed twice, Aunty Violet must now take on the responsibility of her extended family, and yet, amidst the trials, it was surely precious to see how she trusted in the Lord for her every need. Fairly new immigrants to Mozambique, they had nowhere to earnestly call ‘home’, having been kicked out of Aunty Violet’s sister’s village for praying and worshiping the Lord daily. Margaret is married to the village ‘king’ of CheNadiwila, Chief Nadiwila, and completely rejected and forced the family to leave the Moslem village.
Aunty Violet welcomed Peter and Debbie warmly into her home and was so grateful for the beans and rice given with all our love, though, we were ‘til then unaware of the family’s situation. The children were unable to attend school for several reasons and so were running around like lots of other unschooled children here in Lichinga. So Annelisa and I(Antoinette) signed up to school them for free for as long as needed and although we’d never thought of taking on this occupation here in Lichinga, we saw it as an opportunity to input into these desperate, little lives and knew God was leading us both right on. So we became teachers and the kids were invited to start studying at our home on the outskirts of the city! We would school in English although either one barely spoke a word…but neither did they understand Portuguese- only ChiChewa! Aunty Violet, of course, has always been fluent in English. The ages of our students ranged from 5-14 yrs. old and then there was Aunty Violet’s 20 yr.old daughter, Rachel, who throughout her years had cringed at the idea of attending a school due to her slight physical disabilities. Hadn’t the other students laughed at her when she tried? Plus she had gone almost completely blind in 1 eye after a serious bout of measles when 4 yrs.old and after cleaning out the infection from the other eye, it had spread to this one causing serious damage. I decided to pour time into her and take her on as my ‘passionate and dedicated student’, as I soon found out she was!
The long walk from the city to our house should have been rather tedious if one only thinks about the distance and ignores the beautiful view of dipping valleys rolling on and on to meet the chain of antique mountains afar off. But for these souls it read a momentous journey and the songs that bubbled out of their hearts were joyous. I’ll never forget the moment in which I glanced through the window and saw for the 1st time these young ones who from this day on would become such a part of us. Little did I know how much I would get to minister into their lives and that God had actually planned their arrival to last a much longer period of time than any of us imagined!
We welcomed each one with a bowl of corn porridge and hot cup of tea. Aunty Violet was here, too, since although we hadn’t wanted to have anybody come in to do our laundry and cooking, we saw she badly needed income and so felt to bless her in this way. Oh, she was a happy woman! She made up a song on her walk from the city that says, “God has a plan for my life!” and sang away in her African Mama voice over the bubbling ‘chima’ pot as Elias (my 11 yr.old brother) joined in on his guitar.
Three times over since 1979, God had given Aunty Violet a dream about a certain missionary family through whom her own family would be blessed. One by one the details are all coming to pass and when God revealed certain things to our mum on that 1st day concerning what was going on with these children and the danger certain ones were in of being taken by force to be a part of the initiation rights called Nyango(totally saturated with witchcraft and demonic influence in the child’s life) that go on amongst the Yao tribe with children…we opened our arms to them all and said, “Look, we’ll be a refuge to you. Stay here with us in our home!”. So these dear children came for school one day and have remained ever since amongst us. God never ceases to surprise us and we’re constantly reminded that His ways are so much higher than our ways and His thoughts so much deeper than our thoughts…yes, deeper! As we learn to trust in our Daddy God to the point of total surrender, we find ourselves sinking deeper and deeper into His heart, feeling the heartbeat of His very being- throwing ourselves into what many times seems like the unknown…and yet here there is peace, a further revelation of Who our Lover is and the calling He has on His Bride!
We have cried together, laughed and rejoiced, seen God have His mighty Hand upon us as terrible sicknesses hit the household innumerable times, and watched our Healer raise us up to high places. The children love Jesus very much and have often been witnesses of angels and at times Jesus Himself shown to them in a vision. The Word of God is what makes them strong and firmly grounded in Him because of their love and passion for the things of the Lord. Oh, what gladness they find in walking through the valley to the village of Assumani beyond and standing as “lights” of God in this alcohol ridden and immoral people group. Our kids take this verse literally, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings…” They know that it is the greatest joy to be yielded to the work of the Father’s Spirit through one, and watch a life be transformed! They are actual witnesses to this in their very own lives.
Yes, we have seen such beautiful changes take place in their hurt, little hearts and seen God take what was despised and turn it into something great. It’s true, they all speak English now and the older ones read and write well…but it’s the more eternal things that call our attention! I think of sweet Blessings(12) who used to lie all the time, and who now walks in the light; Matoni(13)…a boy who’s suffered both rejection and lack of a father’s hug, now constantly finding out how much his Heavenly Father loves him and the warmth and love he can find in a family that loves Jesus; Sara(11)… a little girl who used to run away time and time again and yet always get welcomed back into loving arms, has now become as fair as a rose, quick in spirit and growing up to be a young lady who shows mercy to others because of the mercy she’s been shown. “Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy” Matt 5:7
Magi(6)…when arrived to stay with us had just seen her younger sister die from malaria, desperately in need of love, nurture, constant teaching…I love feeling her little arms wrap around me and the richly accented words, “I love you, Tia Antonieta (Aunty Antoinette!),” and again, “Thank you for teaching me, Tia Antonieta!”; Aida(9)…so shy and wrapped up in her own little self, would rather scream her head off in the most dejected way than talk…my little flower who has blossomed out so beautiful and rejected these old ways, as her torn little heart found what peace there lies in wait when love is responded to and forgiveness received. Her gorgeous smile makes me smileJ Five brothers and sisters, orphaned in the eyes of the world and yet living in the secure and eternal promise given to them by Jesus,
“I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.”
 John 14:18.
Ellen…married now and 16 years of age, awaiting her 1st baby by the end of January. A young lady soon to be a mother and be blessed to raise up a new generation who will serve the Lord with all their heart!
 I think of Rachel(22)…who used to spend her days sitting around like a little, lost lamb, no joy in her countenance, and lack of self-esteem and worth in her heart. No hope of ever learning to read or doing what other young girls around her do! Her left eye was generally always kept half shut and I knew it was because she could barely see through it. But we serve a living God, a God who listens to the cry that goes up to Him from the sincereness of a childlike heart. Oh joy, the day when when she sat on her mother’s mattress, and covering her good, right eye opened wide the one that had once been blind
Sara in Annelisa’s arms to left. Aida, Rachel to right of Antoinette Magi between Miriam and Mikaila Matoni and Bless and exclaimed, “Look, Amai! I can see you! I can see the suitcase!”. I could
have cried for joy and my heart leaps in complete wonder at the awesomeness of our Mighty God whenever I look at her and am blessed by the most beautiful pair of wide-open, brown eyes. As we’ve poured ourselves out to Rachel, desiring with every part of our being for the Holy Spirit to come in and unfold the petals of her heart, the change has come just as quickly as when a wilting flower is revived by a refreshing, gentle rain at the close of day. Rachel now skips around like a frisky lamb, constant melody on her lips. Her favourite things are cooking over the charcoal fire, sewing, school, attending to the vegetable gardens, and sitting down for sisterly chats with me…I love her so much and delight in seeing the worship that pours out towards her Lord Jesus.
Bit by bit extended family has arrived from Malawi to join our little community…Aunty Violet’s son, Moses, and her eldest daughter, Maggie, with her own 7 children! It is wonderful to see how God has reunited this family back together and the manner in which they serve the Lord! God has led us to build a house for them in the city, where they will be re-integrated into society and we sincerely thank Orphan Hope for all of their support and for making this project possible by their generous gift. God bless you and all of the givers!
Lord willing, the family will be able to soon set up small businesses, micro-enterprise, so as to support themselves. They are looking forward to being a shining light in the area of MaDaba and we know thatGod has a great calling on each one of their lives. Our desire is to honor each one and support themin the next steps of faith to be taken…knowing that God’s purpose in bringing them together as a family again is to bring about mighty things in His Kingdom and in their lives. Yes, it’s all about the Kingdom of God being established in us and on this earth! This family’s cry is to have this truth as a reality in their lives and our Jesus replies, “Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom”! Luke 12:32
These children have been a big part of our lives throughout the past months and shall continue to be so. It makes me almost tremble when I simply begin to imagine all that God is preparing their young lives to accomplish in His Name, who He has created them to be…and there is one thing for sure- each one of them is an arrow in the Archer’s quiver!
“In the shadow of His hand He has hidden me, and made me a polished shaft; in His quiver He has hidden me.” Is 49:2
Love from
The Wilcox Family ,
Peter, Debbie, Annelisa,
Antoinette, Elias, Miriam, Mikaila, and Karmelie!!!!!
All of us! Our family for the past year and a half!
January News, 2008
  
NEWS FROM
THE WILCOX FAMILY
“They sang as it were a new song before the throne…; and no one could learn that song except the hundred and forty-four thousand(having the Father’s name written on their foreheads) who were redeemed from the earth. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were redeemed from among men, being firstfruits to God and to the Lamb. And in their mouths was found no deceit, for they are without fault before the throne of God.” Revelation 14:5
 One of the most important things we are sensing in the heartbeat of God is the need for intimacy with Him. As we witness broken lives restored, prisoners stepping out from where they sat in the dark prison houses, and people turning their hearts to the Saviour, we remind them that it’s all about relationship. He is longing for their love, nothing else! He is asking for their worship and complete surrender to Him. Hunger and thirst for His glory is what is going to cause Him to come and fill us. The first fire in the history of the earth was actually not God’s consuming fire or even glory fire. No, it was man’s fire; when Able offered up a pleasing sacrifice to the Lord. The aroma of our life’s sacrifice is what reaches the throne of God and causes Him to act!! Then He falls on us with His own fire before which none can stand. God is sweeping through the land of Mozambique, cleansing, purifying, removing sin, and bringing about a holiness and igniting a passion and hunger for Him alone. Nothing else will satisfy this people; only Him! We have a burden on our hearts that the new believers who are coming to Jesus, as well as the old, might be trained up and established in the Word of God. As the Bible says, “They perish for lack of knowledge”!
Our dear neighbour, Mama Elena(To whom we often refer and who was healed from cataracts), passed away almost 2 weeks ago after a 2-3 month illness. The tears rolled down my cheeks as I remembered all the times I had danced into her courtyard calling, “Odi, Anganga! Excuse me, Grandmama!” Many precious memories shall remain in our hearts forever…and though it was sad to see her go we know she is now rejoicing before her Saviour in glory, happy and free from sickness and suffering! Her old home is now empty, a huge Portuguese-style house with lots of land around it. Mama Elena’s elderly brother and sister want us to buy the house. We also know that God had previously shown us that He wants us to use that now-vacant place as a Bible School. It’s ideal and the land around could be cultivated by the students so they can support themselves. We know with all our hearts that the Lord will provide all we need to obtain the place, and even surpassing what we need so that we may renovate the old house and turn it into a suitable building for a Bible School, as well as erecting a grass/bamboo shelter for classes, and a few out-buildings. So we take that scripture as our own, “The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell in it forever…Wait on the Lord and keep His way, and He shall exalt you to inherit the land.” We are very excited in our spirits at the heritage of souls the Lord is bringing to us, that we might feed them the Word of God and raise up bands of men and women full of His passion to run through this nation and beyond, giving what they have received.
The home for the 24 orphaned girls is up and now the cement floors are being poured. It’s hard manual labour to search the hillside for rocks that will fit just right to provide a rock foundation for a concrete floorJ. There is still a lot to be done and we are praying for God to help us redeem the time, get it finished, and provide all the furnishings for the inside. Antoinette and I will soon start to visit the orphan girls where they are situated right now in the villages. Social Welfare will take us to the most desperate, needy, and abandoned girls who have absolutely no hope. Please be praying that the Lord will show us which girls He is choosing to come and live with us, and that a beautiful relationship, caused by His strong Love, will be formed between us and them before they actually move in to live here at Aldeia de Alegria (Lit…Village of Joy). These girls will be a generation raised up in these last days, each one with a purpose in the Kingdom, a calling, a vessel in the hand of the King that He might be poured upon the nations. They will be a generation that does not love their life until death. Oh! The privilege of losing our life that we might find it! I know God is calling each one of us to die to ourselves, our will, our wants; pick up His cross, the purpose and will of God in our lives. “And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.” Not worthy of Him! I tremble at those words. The 10 virgins waiting for the bridegroom were all asleep when they heard the last warnings. However 5 had extra oil for their lamps. To the five who didn’t and missed out on the timing of the Bridegroom(They were busy when He appeared- they missed Him completely!!) He said, “I tell you the truth, I don’t know you!” It’s all about intimacy with our Bridegroom, Jesus Christ. We can know about Him. Yes, even do things for Him. Yet if we don’t continually walk in intimacy with the Spirit, living and breathing what He does…He will have to tell us He did not know us! Our flesh must be nailed to the cross. Therefore our life is not our own. He died that He might receive His reward. He is longing for your love today. “How fair is your love…how much better than wine is your love” S of S 4:10. Love is not true love until it is abandoned love…you will go anywhere, do anything for your Lover!
Luke 12:34 says, “For where you treasure is there you heart will be also.” Where your treasure is, that is where you will set your heart. Your life will revolve around it.
“For many are called but few are chosen” Matthew 22: (NKJ).
 The King is calling thousands on the face of earth. Servants and vessels who are willing to stand and carry His messages throughout the earth, accomplishing His purposes and establishing His Heavenly Kingdom. His desperate call is ringing out again and again! Yet few are chosen, simply because to be chosen, it takes an answer to the call. The Lord is calling you. But whether you will answer Him saying, “Here I am, Lord” will determine whether you will be chosen. The Lord is searching the face of the earth looking for men and women with the heart of Samuel. The name Samuel means, “one who hears”. God was looking for a faithful one in Samuel’s days who would do according to what was in His heart and mind.
The spirit of the Lord is saying something in these last days. He is asking His bride, each of us who belong to Him and have His Name engraved on our foreheads, to come away with Him. He says, “Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come with me.” He wants to show you things unseen!! He wants to show you where He is at work, what it is that He is doing…and He is calling you to join Him. Will you accept?? Our response should be to give Him our love, “Come, my Lover…let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vines have budded, if their blossoms have opened…there I will give You my love.” Give Him your love!!
So many things take our love in this world, comfort, belongings, our own will and desires. I want you to know something this day. Anything other than fulfilling the desires of Your Creator is vanity and will leave you empty-handed and empty-hearted.
The spirit of the Lord recently came upon my little 9yr old sister Miriam with deep intercession and I want to share some of what she prayed. She was on her bed praying with her younger sister Mikaila(7 yrs) as they were both fasting before the Lord along with the rest of the family. Suddenly I became aware of a deep sobbing and interceding coming from the room. The Holy Spirit was praying through them. Miriam was crying out that the Lord would touch the good (righteous)people on the face of the earth. “Touch every single person from the smallest to the oldest!!” she cried. “I pray that they would preach the gospel. You are shining them before the darkness. All they have to say is ‘Yes’! And they’ll come to You. Such a simple thing, Lord Jesus! I pray that they would come to eternity with You. I pray, Lord Jesus, for Your people caught in the love of money and stuff like that. Tear away the love of money!! You are the only One to love and the souls around them! Come to them! Show them how much You love them. I pray that they would realise how much they should love You. Even though they know You, they don’t love You as much as they should. Forgive them!! When You tear this love of things off of them then they won’t have reason to take that love and give to anyone (but You)!! Cause revival to happen across the whole earth. Thank you for that revival You have been waiting, just waiting! Where are the harvesters, Lord?! Even thought here is a great harvest, where are the harvesters?! Touch people’s lives!! All they have to do is give love to You. You’re the only One to give love to. Thank you that it’s going to happen because that will break the chains holding them back from going, that’ll open up the way for them!!”
You see, it’s all about Him. It’s all about where He wants to take us, what He wants to do with us. He wants your eyes to see things that the prophets and kings of old longed to see! He wants to take you places where no man’s feet have stepped before. He is calling you to join Him in the Harvest field across the face of the earth. Will you answer the call and one of the chosen?? He deserves His reward!
We love you all and thank the Lord for you as individuals. You don’t know how much it means for us to have a garrison of people constantly uplifting us before the throne of God and interceding for His Bride here in Mozambique.
Love and blessings in Him,
Peter, Debbie, Annelisa, Antoinette, Elias, Miriam, Mikaila, and Karmelie
January 17, 2008 Report from Lichinga
Did you all have a lovely and blessed Christmas? We did! It was full on with the kids and everything, but very rewarding. It's raining cats and dogs here in Lichinga these days and since somebody stole our four-wheel drive shaft for our unique landrover, we pray hard every time we need to make it out of our country mud road to the city!! Our car's nickname makes a heap of sense during the rainy season, because 'Moses' certainly gets us through the 'red sea' with the help of all the angels pushing along from behind!!
PROJECTS FOR 2,008!
*Construction of a primary school at the children's center "Joy Village."
*Bible School for leadership training
*Construction of 2 more 'Orphan Girl' cottages
*Construction of multipurpose room and community dining hall
*Construction of administration office
*Construction of long-term missionary houses
*Construction of visitor's housing
*Well digging
*Agricultural project on government given land.
I know it's rather a long list and it's certainly ALL by faith but that's because we trust in a faithful God!! I'm also sending along a few photos to update.
Our Home: Our family's home is finally finished, although not completely on the interior. We hope to have a verandah around the outside someday. We are enjoying living here sooo much and revel in the delightful view of beautiful mountains in the distance!
Photos x2 Front/Back: The first orphan girls' house to be finished as soon as possible.
Lies about 50 meters from Wilcox' House
Bugs : Yeah! These bugs are delicious sizzled over the charcoal fire!!Mmmm...
Estefam is Pictured with Annelisa. He is referenced in the
July newsletter below
September '07 Newsletter
  NEWS FROM
The WILCOX FAMILY
“But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; who once were not a people but are now the people of God, but now have obtained mercy.” 1 Peter 2:9,10
“Please pray for me! I can’t fall pregnant,” begged the desperate lady. She had run after our old fashioned blue land-rover as we were pulling out of the village of Manhamba near the Lake Malawi. We had just finished having a time of discipleship with some of the people that had been present at the showing of the Jesus film one week before. Now we were going home. However, this lady, just returning from working out in the fields, was so desperate, and so full of faith because of the things she had heard from the other villagers about our visit 2 weekends before with the Jesus film in their own local dialect, ChiYao. I jumped out of the car with the rest of the people on our small team and together we prayed for this dear woman. There was one simple prayer on our lips… “Dear Jesus, please give this lady a child!” Oh, there is nothing too difficult for precious Jesus! His promise is to turn barrenness into fruitfulness, mourning into dancing. To my great joy this lady spoke Portuguese(I love it when I don’t have to communicate through an interpreter!). “Jesus comes to give Life.” I looked into her eyes as a great love from the heart of God for her welled up inside of me. “He loves you SO much!!” I told her. “The Lord is the One who can give you a child! The devil simply comes to rob, kill, and destroy.” And I freely gave her the treasure I carry with me wherever I go…the good news of Jesus Christ…how Jesus took her place of punishment on the cross to free her from sin. Now that gift of salvation was hers if she chose to accept it. “Yes!” she exclaimed. “I want this gift!” So there, on the side of the road, with many other villagers staring curiously on, she prayed with me to ask Jesus into her life. When I mentioned how Jesus comes to remove sadness in our life, this dear lady hung her head in distress. “My name is Gloria(Glory). And yet…” I knew the suffering of being despised that she endured night and day was almost too much to put into words. I put my hands on her shoulders. “Jesus is the One who removes all that and fills us with true joy, true peace!!”
I burst into a song in Yao, “God is great and He saved me” dancing for joy, African-style…I felt like I could burst with happiness! Gloria immediately joined in and the children laughed and added their young voices with great gusto. They liked this new song! And Gloria truly could sing it with all her heart. She was truly saved by the wonderful Name of Jesus. I just knew that all of heaven was joining in with us, a blonde-headed girl with a bunch of rejoicing African women and children, because another soul had found the restoring and healing love of Jesus and been freed from the iron grip of the kingdom of darkness. This is what we are in Africa to see! To see a people being ‘called out of darkness into His marvelous light’
As I sat in the car winding our way home through the green hills dotted with mud huts and little white goats, I knew in my heart I’d been sent to that village simply for this one woman. And yet there are still so many more just like her! How will they know if they have not heard? And how will they hear if no one tells them? Like Gloria told me, “I didn’t know! I didn’t know!” No one had ever told her of the saving love of Jesus. There lies village upon village that has never heard the Name of Jesus; that Name above every other name, the power of salvation, mighty to save. Jesus has chosen to use His ambassadors of love throughout the earth to shine His light upon their faces, to loose the bonds of darkness, to break the chains that have held them for generations. What a joy!
The Lord sent us a whole team of His ambassadors of love this past month, graduates from the Holy Given Mission School in Pemba, and we spent a wonderful 10 days bringing the light of Jesus into the darkest places. We evangelized 7 villages, showing the Jesus film and bringing people to the feet of Jesus. It was always bitter cold by the time the two-hour film had come to an end so the Lord put it on our hearts to preach and pray for the sick first, before the film. This proved to be of great blessing. The first place we tried this in was the village called Malica… This place is known for brewing alcohol for this region, and consequently full of drunkards and lots of other evil. The people began to gather near the roadside as we started with worship. We danced in the dust as the sun slipped beyond the horizon, night closed in, and Pastor Edgar prepared to preach on the back of the flat-bed truck. The team was praying hard as he finally stood and preached, under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. The fire of God came down on that truck…Edgar pulled of his jacket and with great intensity and fervency of spirit released the words of life that were burning in his heart for these people. “The enemy comes to kill, rob, and destroy. But Jesus has come to give you life and restore what has been stolen!!” The people began getting so excited…as Pastor Edgar led them to accept Jesus they all raised their hands and began shouting, “Jesus! Isa!!” The atmosphere was hot! There was an intense joy emanating from the crowd and we all let out a whoop of joy. My eyes were witnessing something kings and prophets have longed to see! As the film started we began to realize that there were actually hundreds of people gathered this night. There were more than 1000! They filled the alley ways and stretched back as far as our eyes could see from our position behind the truck. The chief said to me and Aunty Violet afterwards, as we were preparing to leave with great joy in our hearts, “I am very thankful. My people have never been blessed like this before.”
As we stand with the Lord of the harvest, the Dresser of the vineyard, the Master Builder of this massive tabernacle for His glory, Jesus is constantly bringing us back to the most important thing…LOVE. Oh, may His unfailing love be the only thing that radiates from us, spilling over to the peoples in the market places, in the city streets, the surrounding villages, and over and beyond the mountains to the far corners of this province of Niassa and of this nation! Love never fails…many things could be said and done, yet in the end it is simply Love and the Power of His Spirit(For you cannot have one without the other!) that will win a nation. It was this same Love that took precious Jesus to the cross and won salvation for every tribe, every tongue, and every nation. It is this burning passion of His Spirit and Love placed in our hearts by the King of Love that enables us to bring the people to Him who is the Prince of Peace, that they may know true peace that the world could never give, peace that passes all understanding. Yes, there are those that mock, those that profess to have believed and yet don’t accept the fact that God is asking them to leave their sin, those who are afraid to make a decision for fear of “What will my family say?”…yet the Spirit of God assures us it is not by might, not by power, but by His Spirit. And we continue to see lives changed and touched by His transforming Love.
The Lord has truly blessed us with two wonderful couples, Jesse and Tanya Gellatly and Tyren and Tiffany with their two children, and they are now serving the Lord fulltime with us here in Lichinga. They are full of the Spirit of God and have left everything…family, home, possessions, for Love of Him who gave up His glory in Heaven to save a sinful world. It is an honor to be ministering alongside such lovers of Jesus…and we all celebrate with joy around the dinner table each evening in our little house as we exclaim, “Can I share with you what Jesus did today?” Every evening, the beautiful setting sun tells of the manifold mercies of our Heavenly Father, its red brilliance painting the clouds with guilt edges and throwing its colors over the mountains. And creation joins with the gladness in our hearts as we again tell of what He has done…we dwell on His faithfulness. There is nothing that excites the heart of God more than to restore to Himself a people, a holy remnant, totally set apart for His glory. We firmly believe that the heartbeat of God for this nation is that as the villages are saved, each individual would be filled with a fiery passion for holiness and righteousness. That purity would be the characteristic of this new generation! “Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.” 2 Tim 3:19 Please be praying with us, our precious family in Christ around the world, that the Holy Spirit would continue to anoint us as we prepare His Mozambican Bride for His second coming; a Bride with robes washed in the blood, pure and sanctified for the King of kings! We love you all more than we can express!!!
“To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.”
Peter, Debbie, Annelisa, Antoinette, Elias, Miriam, Mikaila, and Karmelie
Personal Support
Commonwealth Bank Name: Peter & Debbie Lee Wilcox
BSB: 06 3765
ACC: 10022491
Mozambique Outreach Directors: Greg & Jay Cumming
Australia
www.mozoutreach.org Email: moz@mozoutreach.org Post: PO Box 1020 Ashmore City Qld 4214
Phone: (61 7) 559 77 999 Fax: (61 7) 559 77 233
Iris Ministries, Inc Directors: Rolland and Heidi Baker
www.irismin.com
Mozambique Peter’s MOB. +258823900035 / Debbie’s MOB. +258823900037 / Twins’ MOB. +258827707157
Dan, from Oregon, and his daughter Liana, along with two friends, Kyle and Dawna, are building the walls with great love for the orphan children and the Lord Jesus. They worked so hard!
We cellebrated Children's Day a little early as we will be in Maputo on 1st June. We had a great time playing games in our yard, enjoyed doughnuts and popcorn, and prayed for and blessed the children.
Teachers! Annelisa and Regina. Regina is Dan's wife and blessed me incredibly in helping teach school for the 3 weeks she was here. I miss her very much!
Lichinga Mountains, A beautiful few of the beauty that surrounds us, in the dry season. This is a 20 minute walk from where we live.
Antoinette teams with her father Peter laying block for to build a house for the girls
The Lichinga center has been blessed with a wonderful vegetable crop this season
The children took turns preaching on New Year's Eve
Elias Wilcox gives a thumbs up on the killing of a Black Mamba Snake discovered in his bedroom.
Afternoon Bible School taught by Peter Wilcox
Birthday party in Lichinga, Mozambique
Magi, in pink, is the Mozambican birthday girl, front center, Annelisa is on the left, Antoinette on the right. Miriam Wilcox is front left, Mikaila Wilcox is front right. Elias Wilcox is on the right with the ball cap.
The land in Lichinga where Joy Village is being built. Antoinette is pictured with two former Malawian orphans Ayida (8) and Sara (9 1/2).
Blocks are hand made for construction by local workers.
Missionary Peter Wilcox oversees the digging of the well
Annelisa and her little sister Karmelie with two of the boys at Lichinga
Annelisa with Mama Elena who was healed from cataracts
Baptism of a young person by the twins with dad cheering them on
Returning from the baptism and crossing the new land owned by the Lichinga community, 15 baptized one week and 6 more the next week
Christmas dance group taken on Christmas Day, back row left to right are Annelisa, Blessings, Sara, Matoni and Antoinette, front row are Cecelia, who recently returned the village, Ayida, Miriam, Mikaila, Magi and Ellen
Another Christmas dinner picture, Annelisa is on the left and Antoninette on the right
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