Shephen and Caitlin
We have been in Marromeu, Mozambique since 1999, working with Youth
With a Mission.
YWAM's vision is to train local Mozambican Christians to reach out to
their own people, both in the remote villages of the Zambezi Delta and
beyond.
Shephen is the leader of the YWAM team, which consists of six
foreigners and five Mozambicans. One of Shephen's main
responsibilities at the moment is heading up the development of a
training centre and farm about 20 miles outside of Marromeu which will
make our future Discipleship Training Schools, and other training
programmes more sustainable.
For about five years now Mercy Air South Africa have partnered with us
to facilitate our work in remote villages in the Zambezi Delta, many
of which are several days canoe journey from Marromeu. About five
times a year a Mercy Air pilot brings up a helicopter for around ten
days at a time. This enables us to bring regular Bible teaching and
medical care to the communities of the Delta, and also to help with
their educational needs. Shephen and others on the team have been
teaching through the Bible Chronologically in several locations.
Caitlin has been developing simple teaching strategies that can be
used by teachers with little or no experience in the many areas where
there are no schools.
We have been running Discipleship Training Schools (A YWAM 6 month
residential course) for the last six years. Most of the schools have
been led by a Mozambican couple on our team, but Shephen always takes
an active part in teaching and in other ways, as well as teaching on
other YWAM schools elsewhere in Mozambique and beyond. He also has
some international responsibility in YWAM, being part of the Global
Leadership Team.
Caitlin is mainly busy home-schooling our three girls, Nyasha (14),
Kudzai (12) and Tatenda (10) but she does what she can towards
education in the Delta and also runs a ladies Bible study once a week.
The girls are a vital part of what we do, teaching in the school in
Luawe when the helicopter comes, and helping in many other informal
ways. Their fluency in Sena is a great asset and all three have just
teamed up to produce a Sena reading story book, which we hope is the
first of many.