Welcome to our blog!

Our current home: IMC in Birmingham

Our journey begins here in this building. It's a bit like uni halls except that we happen to have two children with us. Here we are studying other cultures, theology, development and various other subjects including lots of practical stuff to prepare us to go overseas.

Why? Well, in June we move to a port town called Beira on the Mozambique coast, working for international Christian charity, BMS World Mission. In Beira we are going to working in partnership with the local church to help the local community. Although this all sounds fairly simple, before we even begin to get to know the people we’re going to be working with our kids will need acceptable passport photos, we’ll all need lots of injections and we’ll have to endure a long haul flight with two children under 3! One small task before we can really get started is to learn Portuguese. Neither of us is feeling particularly bilingual yet! At least we know life won't be dull for the next little while.

Between other tasks, we'll try to keep this blog updated so you can easily keep in touch and follow us, both as we prepare to leave and while we are in Mozambique. Keep up to date by subscribing and you’ll get sent new content each time we post updates.

Anyway, much more to follow…

Geoff and Christine