Your Angola agriculture contributions

Dear Friends in mission,

In the spring of 2016 Rev. Andre Cassule from Angola visited Yellowstone Conference, sharing about the work of the East Angola Conference of the United Methodist Church.  He visited your church and shared about his work and his dreams for the church. You gave money to  advance his work. I want to share how that money has been used.

A few months after Rev. Cassule returned to Angola, he was reassigned by the bishop to teach at the School of Theology at Quessua Methodist Mission. That change created delays in distributing your contributions.  However, your contributions are now at work and making a BIG difference.  

Since your money was earmarked for agriculture your money has gone to work at the farm at Quessua Methodist Mission where Kutela Katembo is in charge of developing the farm and its programs.  He is a United Methodist Missionary and graduate of Africa University. He is changing the lives of subsistence farmers by teaching women from local villages better farming practices and introducing new crops to them, as well as giving them seeds and trees to take home.  He is teaching the boys at the boarding school how to farm and raise animals.  Villagers may come and work on the farm and take home food for their families. 

Specifically, your contributions have made possible the purchase of a planter, a fertilizer cultivator (which will help move or turn the soil while dropping fertilizer when the plant is about knee level) and a mound maker (also called a potato hiller). It makes mounds or raised beds for planting sweet potatoes or cassava. 

Kutela sends out a newsletter a couple times a year. Here is a link to his latest one which came out in January 2018.  If your church or someone at your church is not getting it directly, you can email him and ask him to add you to his list. 

Thank you for supporting the work in Angola.  Your prayers and support are making a difference in the lives of men, women and children half way around the world.  YOU are spreading the love of Jesus. 

Sally McConnell

Yellowstone Conference Mission Coordinator