* Informer/ April 05 *

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

    Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Yes we are
happy to be back in the USA but at the same time we are troubled about
leaving our co-workers behind during some very trying times in Zimbabwe. We
are not troubled about whether they have the ability to handle the 
ministry.
In fact we are quite confident that they will handle things very well. But
we are troubled that people we love and care about are suffering some very
trying times.

     During these times ministry continues to move forward. There are many
things the devil uses to detour ministry from its intended goal and some
deterrents are the shortage of food and the economic means to buy it. At
this moment in Zimbabwe we are facing the worst drought in 20 years. Add to
that the loss of 4500 commercial farmers and their farms, and being left
with only small scale farmers who cannot feed themselves. This leaves us
with about 4 million of the 12 million total population at risk of
starvation this year!!!
    This is why we started the "Food Assistance" for our employees and
their families.
We cannot alleviate hunger, but we can detour starvation at least for those
with a
connection to us as a ministry team. We cannot grow, move or store "maize"
(corn).   So we
cannot provide the staple even if it were in the country.  We can however
buy rice as a substitute at this time. If rice can no longer be purchased
within Zimbabwe then we will be forced to look outside the country. Our
experiences in the past have been that the food will be within Zimbabwe to
buy but the prices will be beyond the means of our staff. This is where we
will come in and be able to assist our staff in buying their staple or rice
at extremely exorbitant prices.

    Another obstacle we are facing is that food is used as a political tool
to force the people to be loyal to the government. This simply means if you
want to eat you will be a card holder that supports the government's party.
If you are known to be a political opponent to the ruling party or from an
area that is known to be apposing the ruling party, you simply do not get
cheap government subsidized food.

     We have a very difficult situation in front of us and we are doing
what we feel needs to be done first and that is to make sure we have the
finances to care for our staff. We have on hand $2979. towards staff food
assistance. It will cost $1302.96 per month. We are looking at seven months
food assistance which will total $9120.72. We will delay supplying food
assistance until it is absolutely necessary. The reason for this is that we
hope to stretch this money until next May which will be the next harvest
season.

    Thank you to each of you who have given thus far... :-)

The shipping container is in Zimbabwe but those in charge at customs are
waiting for us to pay a bribe. We know this because we were informed by
people we trust that this is the case. We do have people working on the
situation who have some swaying powers in this area and await the Lord to
deal with the situation at hand. We request that prayers go up for the
release of the container due to the fact that people gave from their hearts
towards this need, the goods are greatly needed at the camp and it is
costing us $52 dollars a day storage. We have four weeks of storage fees at
this time which totals to $1456.00. As you can see this individual at
customs feels we will pay him due to the storage fees we incur. Please keep
this a matter of prayer and we will keep you informed as to the progression
of the situation.

Simba has sent us an update of the work in Zimbabwe. We want to share this
with you so you can have more of a first hand view of the ministry
happenings. If when you read this you have some questions, feel free to
write us for clarification.


*Dear Mark & Helen

Weekly Update

CYC UPDATE *

Tatenda and staff (Melody, Jamie & Frances) started the new program on
Saturday and they had about 50 kids.  Frances and Melody taught the 3 & 
4's,
Jamie 5&6's combined and Chiz 1 & 2's combined.  I think the lesson time
went well and the teachers encouraged the students to take down notes.
After the lesson time they had memory work time.  The specialty groups have
been reduced to 4; namely the Dance, Drama, Mime and Music groups.  Tatenda
hopes that they will practice and work on their presentations that will be
presented to schools and also in public; orphanages, hospital and also at
Cooksey hall (the Municipality hall), the main job is to work on the
different presentations that they may present quality.   Tatenda has 
started
working with Elliot and hopes to continue on volunteer basis for sometime.
Friday program has changed to a sport program.  Last week on Friday Tatenda
and Jamie met with the youth at the volleyball court in town near Jamie's
place and they had a volleyball practice session.  Every Friday they will
have a sport session and hope that more youth in the area will join the
group being drawn by the sport outreach on Fridays.  Tatenda and Frances 
met
and they came up with the budget for May which is below:

Exercise books (notebooks for the new program) X 90         - $  270 000

Pens X
  - $  860 000

Weekend
            - $  420 000

Photocopying
         - $  300 000

Sticky
     - $    20 000

Cello
    - $    15 000

Bike
           - $  200 000

Bond
     - $  250 000

Staples
               - $    20 000

White
   - $    40 000

Glue
               - $    30 000

Thank you gift for volunteer
     - $  100 000

Evangelistic Small
     - $  650 000

Total
$2 675 000 Zim. dollars


                          $178.33 USD


*STUDENT SUPPORT *

I met with Mr Mayoyo and he gave me his monthly report and I managed to see
what he had been working on the previous month.

*Enrolment and Interviews:*

During the month of April he interviewed a student named Marlvin on the
25th.  At first he thought he would qualify to be in the program but 
through
further investigations he found out that he did not qualify.  He also
interviewed another Student who was about 16 years and had been out of
School since January this year.  He had considered him to join the program
and I had already taken a photo of him to send to you but later on he came
and told me that the boy's attitude and comprehension of the rules and
regulations was not satisfactory.

There is another student he is considering to enroll and he is still
undertaking interviews with the student's relatives.  I explained to Mr.
Mayoyo that you needed more students for the supporters and also I 
expressed
the urgency of having them as soon as possible.  One thing he expressed to
me why it takes time to enroll a new student is that it is hard to find the
true facts especially when the relatives lie about the status of the
individual's life.

*Discipline: *

I asked him about the student's performance and the discipline being
undertaken to help them out.  We talked about Kembo and he has not yet
withdrawn the sports attire from him.  When I asked him why he had not, he
said he had given Kembo the option to quit sports on his own accord.  Mr
Mayoyo seems to be hesitant to take the initiative of the discipline
measure.  He said that he was afraid that Georgina will start thinking that
since she is no longer employed by us we are trying to get back at her on
her son.  I explained to him that we are not going to let fear of anyone
dictate the program and if we do so that will kill everything that we are
trying to do to help out with the kids (he seems to be afraid of Georgina).
I will be getting feedback from him this week about the progress of
withdrawing the sport clothing from Kembo.

*Student Dropout *

Talent one of the new students who was enrolled earlier this year, has
dropped out of the program.  Her grandma simply decided to put her in 
school
at Zurungowe Secondary School without notifying Mr. Mayoyo, the reason 
given
was that she no longer had accommodation in Chinhoyi, since the relatives
she was staying with were no longer in good books with the family.  So he
visited the family and he took the school uniforms from her.  He says such
occurrences are teaching him to take more time in approving enrolment for a
new student.

*Buying and Recording School supplies: *

School supplies were bought and distributed to the Students.  He bought
exercise books, pens & shoe polish.

*School fees: *

School levies were paid in all schools except Chirorodziva and Chaedza
Primary Schools.  School fees for  Nemakonde and Chirorodziva was not paid
because the schools did not have receipt books.  He hopes to pay it when 
the
Schools are ready to receive the school fees when they have the receipt
books this month.

*Home Visits: *

He did one visit to Kembo's place on the 25 of April and the object of the
visit was to talk about his grades.

*School visits *

No school visits were made for the purpose of assessing morals and academic
performance of the students.  He says he was not able to because he was
trying to keep up with the fees and interviews, I expect him to visit this
month.

*Counseling: *

He talked and counseled Ruvimbo Mutobaya because she had lost her mother.

*CYC attendance / Sunday attendance: *

All students seem to do well in attending CYC.  Ruvimbo missed a week of 
CYC
and Sunday service because she was not feeling well.  Tafadzwa missed one
Sunday because she was not feeling well (Stomach bug).

*Library Records *

The records were done on the opening meeting and every book seemed to be in
the library record book.  He needs to follow - up on a book borrowed by
Kenneth.

*Tutoring of slower Students:
*
He gave Kembo and Patience some school work to do.  Patience shows zeal and
Kembo is continuing to be lazy, he says he needs patience.

*Files: *

Files which have the student's information are now available and he started
working on them last month.  I looked at them and he needs to update the
termly reports, because most of them do no have the students grade's for
first term and the previous terms and he needs to file the signed agreement
forms.

I will continue to meet with him weekly.

*
FRANCES _ ACCOUNTING UPDATE *

I started working with Frances and we filed receipts and laid out the bills
that need to be paid each month.  We paid most of the bills last week as
they came in the mail box.  I will continue working with him this week
introducing the computerized accounts and also updating the checkbook.  His
duties are going to be (I will be working with him on this)      updating
the check book

           Filing Receipts

           Paying Bills

           Computerized Accounting

           HRC Ministries Monthly budget

           Checking mail (Post office Box)

           Checking: and Replacing light bulbs and toiletries in the office

                                   Office equipment

                                   Stationery & Supplies

           Checking & Updating Fuel Logbook (fuel in drums)

           Checking & updating Tool register (Tool room)

           Helping out to check and keep up with repairs and maintenance on
Vehicles.

*INC UPDATE *

Sandy wrote a check for the amount of 3000 @ exchange 15000. and Mark S had
already given us the amount for the 1000 @ 15000 giving a total of $60m zim
this month.

*CAMP *

I have set up for Admire to be paid through A/C no. 2 now.  Gabe and 
Tawanda
will access his invoice and then present it to me and I will write a check
to A/c No.2 as a loan.  Another issue that arose was NSSA, they had written
a letter saying that we owed them $1 490 000 for the staff that was working
at the camp.  I met with them last week to find out what the whole deal 
was.
They had not updated their records of HRC Camp, they still assumed that we
still had fulltime working for us.  I explained that we had 4 guys working
for us on contract basis at the camp and after further inquiring and
explanation I found out that they require companies to pay dues for anyone
working for them even those on contract basis after 18 working days.  So 
the
4 guys working at the camp qualify to have dues paid to NSSA.   The amount
that we were supposed to pay after the 18 days of contract for  4 months
worked out to be $311 000 and not the $ 1, 4m they had initially 
required us
to pay.

*UNIVERSITY / COLLEGE SUPPORT *

Simba Nzozi has finished his second semester and he is heading out to an
attachment for the coming month doing the practical aspect of their 
studies.
He says he is doing well and we gave him $328 000 to have a medical exam 
and
finger print testing which are required to be checked before a person goes
for an attachment.   The last I heard from Zondai and Henry they were doing
well, I hope to see them when I make a trip to Harare to give Andrew the
title deeds.   Shame Left for Harare to go To Zimbabwe Christian College
last week on Thursday.  We gave him $1 040 000 for his Schooling which
includes school fees, food and Accommodation (which is provided at the
college), stationery & Bus fare.  I wrote up a contract that he agreed to
and signed.

*MR CHANDO - Furniture *

I gave Mr. Chando the money you had left for a loan for furniture.  He said
he will look for some furniture to buy and he might need to pay deposit for
it.  I gave him a total amount of $2000 000.

*NISSAN REPAIRS & MAINTENANCE *

Barr's Garage gave me the invoice for repairing the Nissan and I sat down
with Jamie for the repairs repayment schedule, and he will be paying HRC
through a deduction method.  He will be paying $230 000 every month.  The
total bill was $1 343 407

*JEEP *

I called Barr's Garage this morning and they have not managed to fix the
jeep yet.  Rob said he was having a hard time to figure out the model, and
he said later this week they found out that it is an odd model and Mike
Appel is scheming the crankshaft.  He says that I should call him on
Thursday afternoon to find out whether he is done or not.  I guess the
wisest thing to do now is not to push him too hard and let him take his 
time
to get it done properly than to have it done now and have problems in the
future.

*SITUATION AROUND TOWN - ZESA & FUEL *

The ZESA situation has improved we did not have a power cut for about a 
week
and half now!!!  The fuel situation has slightly improved also, there is 
one
service station that seems to have fuel all the time (the one at Winsock
garage) though you always find a long queue.

*STAFF BREAK IN JUNE *

The staff one week break in June will be starting on the 27th to the 2 July

I hope the camps are going well for you, may God bless you greatly,
appreciate all your prayers. praying for you too.

In Christ

Simba P



Gabe Gurley work permit is still in question. Gabe has now to renew his 
work
permit on May 20th, hoping to get a three year clearance. This has been a
very trying time for the family but a growing time in resting in the Lords
provision. We ask that you be in prayer for the family and the Lords 
will to
come about for them and HRC Ministries. We are making plans to operate the
camp with the assistant manager if we need to go in that direction. We will
see what the Lord will do in all of this.

Hunnington Retreat Center continues to receive bookings. Work on the
Marriage Retreat Houses continues to move forward. All the foundations are
in place and are working to complete the remaining 10 houses. Each house
cost 500 dollars to build and 500 to furnish at this time. We have been
working at this as the money is made available to us. We are grateful to 
all
who have given towards this project. It is taking longer than we had hoped
but all good things come in the Lord's timing. This will be a great 
outreach
to the young married adults and will give us room to have two youth camps
running at the same time when the facility is not in use for marriage
retreats. This is a ministry opportunity for Christian groups, Church 
groups
and Sunday School classes. If you want to know more about getting involved
in this area on a personal level please email and we will do all we can to
inform you and guide you as to how you can help.

*Summer Itineraries: *

*Ministry of Outreach & Development /Mike and Kim Frazier *

June 5-10         VBS Mechanicsburg  C

July 9               HRC Board Meeting, Lexington

July 17-21       VBS Cayuga CC

Aug 1              VBS-RisingSun CC (day care)

Aug. 7             New Whiteland CC

Oct. 23-26       Revival- Southside CC

Nov. 17-20      National Missionary Convention


*Kelly Carter *

June 5-10         VBS-Center CC

June 12-16       VBS-Crosspoint CC

June 16-30       VBS-Wilkinson Cof C

July 17-21       VBS-Anderson CC

Aug. 7-11        Camp Illiana


*Lori Wanner *

June - Aug      Hanging Rock Christian Assembly
*
Mark and Helen Begarly *

April 26           Seniors Day (Rainbow)

May 1              Northside Bapt. Church

May 22            50th Anni. Meadowbrook CC

June - Aug      Rainbow Christian Camp

June 12            First CC, Warsaw

June 13            Men's Meeting, Dover

June 26            Northway CofC

July 9               HRC Board Meeting, Lexington

July 31             Goshen CC

Sept 9 & 10     Ladies Retreat (Rainbow)

Oct. 3              Begarly's fly back to Zimbabwe


There are other dates pending. When we have them we will put them in the
next Informer. Please keep these dates and those who are working and
traveling this summer in your prayers. We are looking forward to a very
successful summer through the Summer Rep Program. Mike and Kim have put 
lots
of hard work into this so we pray that all goes according to the plan and
the will of the Lord.

                                    *           Prayer Concerns *

Heather's delivery date of June 7th.

Food assistance

Gurley work permit

Summer Rep Program

Release of the container

Simba overseeing the total Zimbabwe Ministry

Praise for all the Lord's provision.

Lift up the lost that the Lord's commission would go forth through this
ministry.

Give thanks for the churches and individuals, who give prayerfully and
financially towards this ministry.

Lift up the Zimbabwe staff and ministry that the Lord would continue to
guard us and them from men who have evil designs in their hearts toward the
ministry.

Those of you who are helping in this ministry, ask the Lord to bless what
you do. If you are not actively involved, then ask the Lord to show you
where he wants you to work.

Thank you and may God bless you more than you can imagine or hope for his
glory.

In Christ,   Mark and Helen   
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