Kees & Sarah Tanis

Thursday, 17th of May

This week the Discipleship School is on outreach to four different villages to teach, preach and pray so Kees went to visit them to see the work and the area….Sarah had her group of widows and did a bible study…

Friday, 12th of May

Having outreaches at different places, on the picture the pit of hell, the prison. Becky Duncan with her husband were with us and preached a powerful message: the crime of the criminal next to Jesus on the cross was unbelieve and it took him to hell! the other one was received in paradise the same day because he believed that Jesus was the Son of God! Do you believe?

Friday, 4th of May

We went to the schools for outreach: drama, teaching and praying with the children and instructing the teachers Biblestudy…

Wednesday, 2nd of May

Wonderful day with Michael Atkinson from the UK/Portugal speaking in the morning and the team from “Mission-Gorongosa” came back with amazing testimony’s, below the map of villages they have worked in…

Monday, 30th of April

Farai left today for SA to go back to school and as we brought her to the airport we met the president of Mozambique, Armando Guebuza on the runway…

Sunday, 29th of April

Reuben 12 today and so we had a lunch for him and his friends…

Thursday, 26th of April

Discipleship School came in today to do an exam,  serious stuff….

Tuesday, 24th of April

And another team of missionaries has been send to “Mission-Gorongosa”

Friday, 20th of April

The twins have their birthday party tonight:  Moses and Sadalia

Tuesday, 17th of April

The four teams came back from their villages with lots of testimonies of healing, restoration and many coming to the Lord, the fields are white…

Thursday, 12th of April

Beira today, Rebekah and Nyasha are flying out back to the UK but first a visit to the Indian Ocean…

Tuesday, 10th of April

Busy day as four teams from the Discipleship School  need to be organised to go out to four different locations in the nation to pray, visit every household and teach the leaders in other words: church planting, on the road they go…

Sunday, 8th of April

Farai has come home for end of term, we’re all very excited, below she testifies in church about her adventure…

Saturday, 7th of April

Passover meal with our family and friends; Rebekah and Nyasha from Leeds, UK and Nana and Mavis

Good Friday

Passover celebration with the Discipleship School, Baptisms and Communion, wonderful time….

Tuesday, 3rd of April

We’re having a team from SA playing volleyball every afternoon with the big boys and Rebekah Besford with Nyasha, her daughter from England are visiting us, below playing games with the smaller kids…

Monday, 2nd of April

third team came back from Mission-Gorongosa, a mission with signs and miracles, transforming villages but intense! Donna Celeste is blind en part of the team but the people in Gorongosa want to build a house for her to stay as she is powerful in word and deed…

Friday, 30th of March

Wonderful time of ministry at different places today, below the centre for the handicaped with a little down-syndrome boy, Mateu, brought in, carried around by his grandmother as he was left…many handicapped children are locked up, treated like animals…

Wednesday, 28th of March

Pastor Gimo, an old mozambican preacher with an amazing testimony of wonders and miracles, planted almost 90 churches in his liftime, is speaking in the Discipleship School, very inspiring…

Friday, 23rd of March

Busy week with finishing of walking the land:  redeeming the land; the blood of Jesus was shed to destroy any curse and bring the reverse: blessings!

Friday, 16th of March

Outreaches at different locations, below prison:  drama, biblestudy, prayer and lunch…

Thursday, 15th of March

We had a powerful week in the Dischipleship School;  topic: Blessings and Curses, Life and Death: now you choose!

Sunday, 4th of March

Second team came back from Mission-Gorongosa, very exciting with lots of testimonies…

Friday, 24th of February

We had a party for Manuel Cesar as he had his 15th birthday which is a miracle, he’s born HIV but is well and healthy, just lost one eye when he was small, but prayer  changes everyting…

Wednesday, 22nd of February

This week we are studying the Lord’s prayer: ” Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us”…Powerful prayer time….

Friday, 17th of February

And so Dawid flew out, finishing a good week of teaching and puting up a water tank for us: he blessed us again!

Thursday, 16th of February

This week we had Dawid Duplessis from SA teaching in the Discipleship School…

Tuesday, 14th of February

This morning we send out five young missionaries to work in the Gorongosa mountains, pray for them…

Friday, 10th of February

We had an amazing week in the Discipleship School: Abraham pleaded with God for salvation of his family and God remembered Him: our answer was time of powerful prayer! there is growth in the school…

Thursday, 26th of January

The students of the Discipleship School in the Prayer House:  Prayer changes Everything!

Tuesday, 24th of January

Today the Discipleship School 2012 started: more than 40 young guys and girls to be discipled, coached and prepared for the life God has for them: they will be with us for one year…

Friday, 13th of January

Social service rang, two brothers lost both parents and the sister who looked after them, could we take them in, emergency! so Castro and Gilberto have come to live with us…

Tuesday, 10th of January

The year has started with all the boys of the orphanage going back to school and the leaders of the Discipleship School came in for training and preparations like painting as the students will be coming in early next week…

Wednesday, 4th of January

Had a sad day as Farai has left Moz for SA to go to boarding school; we had a party to say goodbye and blessed her, today we took her to Beira airport, sad for mum and dad….

New Years Day, 2012

We went with all of us to the pool, two hours drive away, to have a good beginning to the year…

Christmas Eve and Christmas day 2011

We had a wonderful Christmas time, week of peace and joy, preparing drama’s and a day of cooking meals for the prisoners and we had about 120 for supper, we did games and the kids danced!! happy times! beneath as follows Christmas Eve musical, choosing lamb for christmas dinner at Nana’s, preparing with all of us, Christmas party!!!

Saturday, 3rd of December

Today it was the national day of the handicapped with official ceremonies, speeches and a luch for ….below a picture of Joao who we’ve known many years and now works for government…

Monday, 21st of November

in the village one of our pastors who graduated last month build a new church and so we had the official opening, here Reuben the photographer…

Saturday, 19th of November

Overview of the Discipleship School 2011: Getting to know God, getting to know who you are and making God known!

Monday, 7th of November

The chosen team after a week of training sessions by pastor Tomas from Sierre Leone, ready to go on a field trip led by Tomas to Gorongosa mountains to plant churches, exciting…

Monday, 31st of Oktober

We had a wonderful week behind us with the final conference on churchplanting and Graduation for the students of all the schools on Saturday night. Participants were the schools and the leaders from the many villages we worked in during the year;  hundreds of people came and attended and were fed, powerful times of prayer and worship, step by step teaching by a team from South Africa and main speaker was a pastor who planted thousands of churches in Siera Leonne, below some pictures of the week and of Saturdaynight…

Monday, 17th of Oktober

6 am prayer, the little boys were interceding for the world out there….

Friday, 14th of Oktober

spring has come:  the Jacaranda trees in front of our house…

Thursday, 13th of October

Last weeks with the Discipleship School, Camp Destiny: Joshua 1v2  prepare! be ready to cross over….

Friday, 7th of October

Came across this cross in the middle of the bush on my way to an outreach team as three teams are in the field…

Tuesday, 4th of October

Today is a national holiday in Mozambique, the day of Peace, so all the boys are at home. Sarah took the little boys in the afternoon to do an art class (see  picture below). Discipleship school back in the field to three different locations on outreach, sowing the Gospel…

Wednesday, 28th of September

Had an amazing time of ministry, breaking down walls with the footwashing as we look at the leader of leaders: Jesus

Saturday, 17th of  September 

We had five Birthdayboys  so we combined it and took them to the pool,  they had lots of fun!

Tuesday, 13th of September

We said goodbye to our American friends with the prophetic baby Grace, born at Maforga but they will be back…

Friday, 9th of September

Visited our two teams on outreach today and we redeemed the land, met precious people with lots of history…below intercession and communion…by the way; the teams are amazing…

Tuesday, 6th of September

School of Ministry gone out for the week to two villages; Pungue-vila and Nhamatanda-Mutashira, to redeem the land, teach the leaders, bring the message of the Kingdom of God and intercede for every household, pray for them…Kees will visit them on Thursday and Friday….

Saturday, 3rd of September

pictures of Ke’s birthday party and below the night of prayer in Prayer Village…

Friday, 2nd of September

Busy days ahead, this morning the outreach of the Discipleship School to the handicapped people, tonight a party for Ke who became 9, then we move to prayer village where we start with a supper for many pastors and all the schools followed by a Night of Prayer for Mozambique. Tomorrow School for Churchplant, Sunday Beira, picking up Bromwen, back from holiday…

Thursday, 25th of August

Had a profound time  with the Discipleship School, working on the topic “witchcraft” which is very real in Mozambique, today we went to Prayer Village for a time of repentance on behalf of the people. ( all except two of the Discipleship School have been involved in witchcraft, see consequenses for a nation in 2Kings17v7-23)

Sunday, 21st of August

Amazing results after a week of hard work in the villages and so full of joy the teams went home; one day rest and Tuesday back in class…

Thursday, 18th of August
This entire week the Discipleship School is staying in two villages, Moyachena (white heart) and Pindawhanga (bread for the witches), to teach the leaders, visit every house to bring the gospel and to redeem the land, Kees visited Moyachena today, tomorrow Pindawhanga, Sunday picking up the teams…

Thursday, 11th of August

Had an amazing day as the School of Ministry invited all the disabled people from Gondola for a seminar and a festa as we had our wedding anniversary, which was the best one ever… below all of us,  individuals show their projects, cutting of the cake and blessings….

Saturday, 6th of August

we’re having a busy weekend, weekend of night watch in Prayer Village, a youth conference in one of the villages and School of Churchplant this morning: powerful meeting with strategizing the gospel for every home…

Thursday, 4th of August

Donna Lusarde sang her testimony in the Prayer House, she suffered much in her life but Jesus took her through…watch this:

Saturday, 30th of July

Had a lovely time with the visiting american team, they’re time is almost finished but they worked so hard!!very encouraging…

Friday, 29th of July

Several teams went to different locations on outreach for the weekend, below the team visiting Pindawhanga which means ‘food for the withches’, it’s a place were withcdoctors thrive, last month two babies were kidnappped and the bodies without heads were found here, witchcraft is evil, so a good place to shine the Light as we do strategicly,  setting up celgroups. (several students in the Discipleship School and Churchplant School come from here) please pray for this place…

Wednesday, 27th of July

Today many visitors again: the mozambican children’s parlement came with the organisation “safe the children” together with the mozambican television from Maputo to meet our children and the youth from the discipleship school. We’re having a seminar for youngsters  from all over on relationship and sex.  Our centre was nominated an example to other centre’s in the nation! A testimony to His Glory!

Sunday, 24th of July

We’re having many visitors at the moment with a team from the States, some brought a suitcase of clothes for the boys from the orphanage, they were so blessed!

Friday, 22nd of July

Amazing day of ministry, students taught “Covenant Relationship” in small groups in prison, the Holy Spirit was moving….

Thursday, 21st of July

Teaching all week on Covenant Relationship in the Discipleship School, the depth of the life He has prepared for us ( will put a teaching on soon as it is so powerful) and so we finish  celebrating our relationship with the New Covenant: Communion.  Below Joao, the youngest student in the Discipleship School, but very strong, analysing a  Bible verse….

Saturday, 16th of July

Today we had to organise a luncheon for government officials, the new administration….so we may be a testimony to many….

Friday, 15th of July

Students of the School of Ministry went to practice “hearing the voice of God” and prophecied over the teachers of the primary school and went to pray and prophecy over the buildings of the secondary school…(below)

Tuesday, 12th of July

Kees didn’t arrive in time but the leaders continued teaching in the Discipleship School: Here Nazare teaching on “hearing the voice of God”

Sunday, 10th of July

And so Kees flew back again after a week in a conference in SA and a week visit to Holland.  Sarah continued the ministry, a team from SA came, lead by Rudo to run the schools and outreaches, God is good! The flights back into Moz for Kees became a testimony as all flights were cancelled but because of a big government conference in Gondola he was given a seat and eventually arrived back at Maforga.

Tuesday, 21st of June

Wonderful prayer and worship in the Prayer House and in Prayer Village, preparation to go out into the Nation, Outreach on four different locations this week…..

Sunday, 19th of June

Kees is a father to many and therefore it is his special day, some of the small boys came to surprise him….

Tuesday, 14th of June
Below the pictures of prayer for Mozambique at Prayer Village with the Discipleship School and later on we had Daniel Bell from the USA speaking (for this week) on Restoration, powerful!

Sunday, 12th of June

Church was powerful this morning, Sarah preached and we had a spontanious outburst of praise among the young men…watch this clip…

Saturday, 11th of June

We had a special visit from one of our old boys, now a teacher, married, a baby girl and he came with his grandma who lives deep in the bush. She came to thank us for what we did for Roderiques, her grandson, as we educated him and now he teaches others, she brought a goat and corn flour….we were touched….

Friday, 10th of June

prison outreach today:  picture below of  a two year old, living in prison, seriously malnourished and neglected, went to buy baby milk as he doesn’t eat or get much more. As we were getting into smallgroups to minister, one prisoner just collapsed, we prayed, the prisoners carried him outside and he died, probably of exhaustion, shocking experience for the team but we ministered Jesus’ love in this pit of hell….as we left they called me back, asking me if I could drive the corpse away….

Saturday, 4th of June

School of Churchplanting back in class, even with the baby….isn’t he cute….

Saturday, 28th of May

Reuben’s belated 11th Birthday party, cake and movie time with the boys….

Friday, 27th of May

Today the Discipleship school went on outreach to the schools in Seserre to teach,preach and pray, below a drama about choices and consequenses…

Sunday, 22nd of May

Kees went with a ministry team to a bushchurch, the Holy Spirit was moving….

Friday, 20th of May

Many outreaches at different locations, the Gospel is sown and a harvest will come forth…below Celeste, the blind lady ministring to a disabled lady…

Wednesday, 11th of May

Dawid Duplessis from South Africa is back to teach for a week on Evangelism in the Discipleship School…
Saturday, 7th of May

School of Churchplanting came for study today, wonderful that many wives of pastors and leaders come and enjoy it so much, unique in Mozambique. Picture beneath a pastor we gave glasses and he was so happy to be able to read…the young leaders teaching the older generation…

Sunday, first of May

For the weekend we had the Maforga Womens conference with Kees being the final speaker bringing a message of Esther, an orphan girl who rose to be queen but more, saving her people of destruction…so a call to pray! below the pictures of intercession for the lost…

Thursday, 28th of April
Sarah spend her last day with her mum on the beach in Beira, tomorrow of to the UK…

Tuesday, 26th of April
We had a party for three little boys who had their Birthdays in April, it was a blast!! We have three new boys in our centre who never experienced a Birthday and so just beamed the evening….