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We have launched a Well Drilling Rig Fund Lance and Amy McDonald of New Bible Covenant Church in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa seeded the capital campaign for the Drilling
Rig. This follows their sponsorship of a Well that was drilled
and commissioned by a team from their church last summer.
The McDonalds’ account of why the water ministry touched
their hearts is below:
Our partnership with MCDF is one of God taking our two fish
and five loaves of bread and multiplying it into something far
beyond what we ever could imagine. Our family heard Dennis
and Girlie Matangira share a presentation on the MCDF
ministry in early 2009. As a family we started to talk about
sponsoring a child so they can go to school, but two things
changed all of that. .
First, during the MCDF presentation, there was scene in a video
clip where a small package of food was prepared to feed what
seemed like a large group of children. The children at the back
of the line did not get any food because they ran out. The point
of the video clip was that you could feed 20 children for a few
dollars, but we were more concerned about the five children at
the end of the line with empty plates. There are still tears when
we think about it.
Second, the MCDF website had a brief paragraph that changed
our world. The two items that are burned in our
Political stability in view of planned 2011 mission trips.
Villagers continue to embrace the ministry and the Gospel.
Please continue to lift our sister, (Janet at the village), up in
your prayers.
More partners to ensure that all kids who want to attend
school can have the fees to afford to go to school.
WELL DRILLING RIG FUND
The Ministry has been blessed with seed
capital to launch a capital campaign for
the purchase of a Well Drilling Rig. The
campaign was seeded with $7,000 and
aims to raise around $50,000 for the
purchase of a second hand rig.
Ownership of Rig will reduce cost of
sinking Wells from ~ $8,000 per Well to
about $2,500.
Donald, Dereck, Dennis Matangira Mushayamunda & Pastor Greg Bondurant of Westerville Christian Church, Ohio
2895 Atwood Road Winston Salem, NC 27103 www.mcdforphans.org/
MUSHAYAMUNDA CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
MARCH 2011
Ministry Prayer Request
Contact:
Donald: donaldmushayamunda@yahoo.com
Dereck: ymushayamunda@gmail.com
Dennis: dmatangira@gmail.com
JANUARY 2011
McDonalds account (cont.) minds are the majority of diarrhea deaths (90% are children) are
tied to unclean water, and $1 invested in sanitation will give a
return of $9 (AKA Great Investment.)
We started thinking bigger and talking about how we could
sponsor an entire village. A village well allows children to attend
school since they would not need to walk miles and miles each
day to get water. A village well literally improves the health of
the community. A village well equips people to grow and sell
food from a garden. And then there is the eternal
impact………. At this point my wife’s words were, “Why are we
still talking about this? We must drill a village well!”
Fresh water saves lives, educates children and feeds people. A
well is the tangible love of God. We have been passionate about
drilling wells ever since. Let’s not do this one well at a
time. What would it take to buy a truck to drill our own
wells? We want to save and change lives. Do you have two fish
and five loaves to invest that could literally save a single life,
many lives, and perhaps generations?
It was truly a blessing to minister alongside the MCDT staff we
saw changed lives in the people of Zimbabwe and the lives of the
team. We are all ready to go back.
2895 Atwood Road Winston Salem, NC 27103 www.mcdforphans.org
MUSHAYAMUNDA CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
SCHOOL FEES /OTHER COSTS SCHEDULES
Primary School per year (including
uniforms)
Boys $120
Girls $100
Secondary (High) School fees per year
(including uniforms)
Boy $330
Girls $320
Bible College Fees - $1,200 per year
Teacher’s College Fees - $700 per
semester
Nutritious Drink for Feeding Orphans -
$500 per 3 months per school
Uniforms $ 25 per child
Shona Bible $15 each
Other ideas at: www.mcdforphans.org
McDonalds family: Amy, Lex, Lance and Beemer
Tentative Trips For 2011
Northwest Christian,
Tallmadge, OH (June)
New Covenant Bible Church,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa (July)
First Christian Church of
Johnson City, TN (will
incorporate students from
Milligan College) (July/Aug)
Contact:
Donald: donaldmushayamunda@yahoo.com
Dereck: ymushayamunda@gmail.com
Dennis: dmatangira@gmail.com
MCDF - Our 55 Year Journey with you all
Fifty five years ago, your fathers and grandfathers, and perhaps
some of you, helped send a couple of missionaries to our home
country Zimbabwe, then Southern Rhodesia. They initially
planned to work in the Zambezi valley, about 800miles North
West of us. My siblings and I were not even born then. When
they hit the ground, they were advised of a greater need in a very
remote area of the country in the South East. The plans had to
change. Focus accordingly shifted to the South East where New
Zealander missionaries had been overwhelmed by the work at a
new small mission station called Mashoko. This place is at the
fringe of my village where my grandfather, my father and now
my brothers have been successive headmen.
Lots of good work was done. As we look back, one of the biggest
blessings was the salvation of our parents: Tangston Matangira
and Mai Lee Sipelile. When the war of independence from
colonial Britain ravaged the country for 15 years, missionaries
were evacuated. Our parents were left with the keys to the
hospital and missionary housing. Soon, they were victims of both
the colonial forces and the freedom fighters (aka terrorists). My
father who drove the 10-ton mission truck hit a landmine and
only God knows how and why he survived. Later on, guns were
fired at my father in the thick of the night execution style. He
survived and escaped. Thirty four years later next month, it is
still a miracle we have never been able to unpack. One Dark
night, amidst a dusk to dawn curfew, with gun fire and flare
bullets cutting the nocturnal silence and darkness our family
escaped from the village through the forests for several days; only
choosing to travel in the dark of the night. When
we eventually made it to a peace haven in the next city, we knew
the Lord was on our side.
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Approx... 20,000 miles traveled, around 130 travel
hours, around 45 or so of these hours were on a bus made
for Japanese sized people with 3 nights spent on the bus.
About 1 ton of medical, school and other supplies
delivered in 40 duffels.
$16,000 +dollars plus of aid
Phil, our paramedic (treated/ examined around 300
people)
Hundreds of decisions, 47 Baptisms, 2 Funerals and 9
different schools where we either had Robin Preach or
did VBS. Robin also preached 5 services, 2 leadership
seminars –where he addressed the issue of Polygamy in
each
we preach, teach & touch the lives of 6000+ (kids and
villagers)
“Established a water well” for 2 villages - 5, solar panels,
2895 Atwood Road Winston Salem, NC 27103 www.mcdforphans.org
MUSHAYAMUNDA CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
HOW CAN I HELP THE VILLAGE?
Individuals, families, VBS groups, as
well as Sunday School Bible classes
can help in many ways.
Want to purchase a garden, a cow,
hens, a year’s schooling for an
orphan? Just to name a few. Maybe
you would like to pay for a borehole
(Well) or maybe solar panels to help
bring the water up from the well.
Thinking of something bigger? How
about a 5,000 gallon water tank? Solar
panels to pump the water into the tank
so that it runs out of a faucet?
Also, Shona bibles for the church
leadership as well as having some at
the churches for scripture readings?
They are purchased in Harare (the
capital city) and taken to the village.
Maybe these are too big? How about
buying a uniform for a student? School
supplies? Teachers need supplies too.
Long term goal is to raise enough
money to purchase a bigger bus to
transport the mission teams.
Contact:
Donald: donaldmushayamunda@yahoo.com
Dereck: ymushayamunda@gmail.com
Dennis: dmatangira@gmail.com
New Covenant Bible Church Team Commissioning Water Well Northside Team getting ready to help with brick molding (July 2010) (October 2010)
Five years later, when the war had ended, we returned to the village to rebury the bones of beloved relatives. Homes had
been razed down and the whole fabric of our community had also been destroyed. While the world saw only these, our
parents bemoaned something bigger that had also died - the visible, energetic church. Their hearts went out to God. In their
modest strength, they re-engaged our people to remember Christ and his timeless redeeming work. This was never
easy. God's faithfulness though prevailed.
The Journey of faith began with the leadership of Brother Greg Bondurant, Tim Pressler, Sandy Wood and our brothers and
sisters at Westerville Christian Church, Ohio followed by Brother Danny Spainhour and Pinedale Christian Church, NC.
Then Brother Ralph and kids that have consistently worked with us at Roundlake Christian camp have seen the potential of
the glimmers of light that they can bring to our village. This past summer we saw two new congregations take the leap of
faith for short term mission visit to the village, Brother Doug Forret and New Covenant Bible Church, Iowa and Pastor
Robin and Northside Christian Church, Ohio. The teams, compelled by the love of Christ and his saving work to the world,
took giant steps of faith to come and be part of this work. They molded bricks. They set up a solar pump and water mains.
They painted schools, they commissioned water wells. They did VBS and preached the love of God to hundreds of village
school kids. They preached to hundreds of adults, sang and danced with them in their language. In the sweltering heat and
cold, they shared the sweat/shivering with these humble saints. A beloved AIDS infected son to a dead father welcomed the
Team with the African drum beat one day. Three days later, his life was taken away so quickly. He succumbed to an
opportunistic disease and died. Pastor Robin and your ambassadors, the Team - buried him and send him off to heaven in a
humbling funeral. Some of you, consoled the widowed mum of this boy, herself an AIDS victim. The villagers were
touched. Is this not the full koinonia of the saints that Jesus demonstrated? Friends. We are grateful for these labors of
sincere Christian love. Among the Team, some gave money towards the drilling of another well. Some of you have
graciously adopted village kids for sponsorship. We are gratified that you, as a missional Church would elect to commit
yourselves to support one of our associate pastors and his family. Why have we given you historical snippets of our village?
That you may be encouraged to know that you are completely within the divine will of God. We are only facilitators and
feel humbled in the great honor of partnering with you. You are fulfilling the law: "You shall love your neighbor as
yourself" (Matt 22:39).
May the grace of God through our Lord Jesus Christ rule your hearts until he comes.
MCDF - Our 55 Year Journey with you all (cont.)
2895 Atwood Road Winston Salem, NC 27103 www.mcdforphans.org
MUSHAYAMUNDA CHRISTIAN DEV FOUNDATION
Contact:
Donald: donaldmushayamunda@yahoo.com
Dereck: ymushayamunda@gmail.com
Dennis: dmatangira@gmail.com
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