Coming back from Edith Duly last week, feeling grumpy as we had no water, no power, no
phones, no fuel and no money ......... I saw in front of me, a man walking down the Fife
Street carrying a giant wooden cross on his back !!
He was walking from Mutare to Plumtree carrying his cross because "God had called him
to walk." The sign on the back of the cross said "Heal our Land Oh Lord"
I was terrified to take a photo as I have been through that before ! But I stopped and
spoke to him, a large curious crowd also gathered around us.
His name is Roy Perkins, born in Zambia, he had lived in Zimbabwe for most of his life,
and now working at Maforga Christian Mission in Mozambique.
Realising that God had a task for him, he spent all of October in prayer and fasting, and it
was God who called him 2 weeks before Christmas, to walk for the Lord.
He vowed to walk from Mutare to Plumtree and from Beitbridge to Chirundu.... ..
He says he will do anything for the Lord, and walking thousands of Kilometres is but a
small thing to do.
While fasting his Bible fell open at a chapter in Thessalonians and the scripture read "
" Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye
have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more
and more."
Roy says as he walks he gets stronger and stronger , so does his faith and so does his
conviction that prayer will make things come right in Zimbabwe. He admits that his
shoulders get sore and so do his feet !
The front of the cross has the scripture "If my people will humble themselves, pray and
seek my faces "One Chronicles Chapter 7 Verse 14."
The cross was cut from his garden, it is a Cidrella tree, he says it is not heavy.
I asked him to stop and have a drink with me, and we went to Sisters in Haddon and Sly.
He parked his cross carefully against a lamp post ...... and drank two glasses of fresh
orange very thirstily !!
Roy Perkins - Missionary extraordinary - a man with an infallible faith in prayer, such an
unassuming man. He has no one with him, he walks with his crate towed behind the cross,
bearing his rolled up mattress and a blanket. He relies on people stopping out of curiosity
and stays the night usually in farm houses along the road.
Not at all worried about his being hassled by the police, he says in Bulawayo they are
different to the Harare police...... .. They wave him on his way with good wishes.
Outside Harare he was stopped by the police and questioned as to why he was doing his
lonely walk so close to the election....
Roy told them that they should be grateful that he was praying for them, because things
are so tense n Zimbabwe, without prayer it could all turn into a nasty bloodbath as has
Kenya !!
He says a number of people have been inspired to walk a few kms with him and that he is
never lonely as many many people have befriended him along the road.
Roy plans to have completed his walking vigil by mid March.
His e mail address is royandtrish@ yahoo.co. uk
My faith has been rekindled and my soul restored !!
See Roys picture on http://www.morningmirror.africanherd.com/bulawayo-morning-mirror-newspaper
On Friday 5 th January at 1708 hrs, in Cape Town, Pippa
Simpson (nee' Minshull) gave birth to a boy, Orin. Mother and baby, and
husband Anton, are in excellent health.
And Granddad survived too !
CONGRATULATIONS
Rodney & Ethel Short (nee van Pletzen) who now reside in Scotland, celebrated
their 50th Golden Wedding anniversary on 25th January 2008. Congratulations dad
and mom on a wonderful achievement. Grateful thanks to God who has seen you
through these years. Wishing you many more. Lots of love Heather, Roy, Cullum
& Shane
CONGRATULATIONS TO CHARLES AND LORNA STIRLING ON 60 GLORIOUS YEARS OF
WEDDED BLISS !
CONGRATULATION; -
To Sydney James Paterson of Bulawayo who turns 90 on the 1st February
2008,Good luck
DIXON, Barbara. Our deepest sympathy to Bobby and Lisa on the passing of Barbara. Peter
and Denise Botwright (Scotland)
FUNERAL NOTICES
DIXON - BARBARA
There will be a memorial service for Barbara on Friday 1st February at the Bethel Church
on Cecil Ave.
everyone invited to attend.
Condolences
NAUDE,Shirley
Our dearest sister and aunt who was taken so suddenly.We loved you so much and will
miss you.Full of life,kind and loving.Memories will never fade.
Love to our Ed,Lorna,Eddie, Craig,Zoe and the children.
Always with us
Jennifer,Ian, Hilton,Travis and Genie.
New Zealand.
A thanksgiving service for the life of Muriel Valentine Rogers will be held at St John's
Cathedral, George Silundika Street. Bulawayo on Thursday the 14th February 2008 at
11.00 a.m.
If you think there's a problem in the world, you don't wait for other people to fix it. You
have to try to fix it yourself. --Jack Davis, age 11
Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and
drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at
an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet. --Carl Sagan
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