As part of our recent trip to Mozambique just a few weeks ago, we shipped a container of vitamin- fortified rice, valued at $65,000. This was donated to us, but we were required to cover the cost of the shipping - which came to over $9,000 - making our cost for the rice only about 16 cents per serving. The container was to arrive while we were in Mozambique, however, it was delayed and we discovered that the rain in Malawi and Mozambique has been so torrential and flooding so severe that we were not even able to enter Malawi to meet the shipment of rice. Even so, we know this will be a tremendous blessing to the people in this region!

On the heels of this first shipment, we have an opportunity to send another shipment of rice to this area! The need is tremendous as the area has just been ravaged by storms and flooding. Upon our return home last week, we received this communication from Rolland and Heidi Baker concerning the devastation from rain and the cyclones (hurricanes) that have hit South Eastern Africa within the past week...

Often news reports don't carry the reality of the situation that are really happening on the ground in remote areas where so many of our churches and people are. Our pastors in the bush are aware of many situations that the government of Mozambique and the aid agencies are not aware of yet. We know from experience in Mozambique and Malawi that international aid often does not filter down to the remote villages and locations where it is needed most.

So we are learning the raw details of the situation in remote flooded areas directly from our pastors in the bush, and basically the human situation for many thousands in our own churches is unspeakably terrible. Today we spoke with Norberto San go, one of our young Mozambican leaders, who is now based in the town of Morrumbala just north of the Zambezi River in central Zambezia Province. He wept on the phone as he described how our own church people have been existing for weeks. Their grass and mud huts are gone. Their small farm plots that they till by hand without tools are flooded. They have lost everything. They try to survive by eating disgusting roots, bugs and leaves, but they are starving. Many are naked, living like animals in the mud, rain and wind. Children cry all through the night in thunderstorms, sick and hungry. Aid agencies seem to be unaware of them, and no help has been forthcoming apart from what Iris Ministries has provided so far.

>>Click here<< for the complete communiqué from Iris Ministries and Rolland and Heidi Baker on the desperate situation taking place in this region of Africa.

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Donations for another rice shipment are needed as soon as possible!

We have one container that can be sent to the region as soon as we have the money for shipping! The rice itself has been donated!

We have also been told that we may have as many containers as we want to send over. All we need do is cover the shipping expenses and all import and export taxes required by these countries!
(Approximately $9,000)

CLICK HERE FOR DONATION INSTRUCTIONS!