Matthew & Sheri Steer in Mozambique: Saying "Goodbye" and saying "Thank you!"

To our dear family and friends who have supported us for the last 3 years with your encouragement, prayers, financial support, and interest in our lives and work;

We want to give thanks and appreciation for all the ways you have held us up and supported us through these 3 years in Mozambique. You have truly shared in our testimonies and successes, as they would not have been possible without your care for us!

We think about the life-saving recovery & transformation in severely malnourished baby girl Faustina (Tasty Tomato, baby girl F). Our appreciation is in God who healed her and worked through us, and our appreciation is in you who held us in prayer during that time, or offered words of encouragement, support, and wisdom.

We remember the closing of the clinic and how we were surrounded the entire time by your love and concern, prayers and how you celebrated with us upon the reopening.

We remember Matthew's terrifying fall and traumatic injury and how he came through now as if it never happened, and we utter grateful praise to God who held him during that time, but we also hold so much appreciation to you who contributed financially to help lessen the burden of that time, and we are SO grateful for those of you who held him up in prayer and wrote words of encouragement and concern...the road is almost impossible when walked alone, but together we endure and move forward; it would have been much more difficult without you. THANK YOU!

We are grateful, we are thankful, and we hold so much appreciation for the ways you have touched our lives, even with the physical distance that separated us, you touched our lives and in that helped change the lives of the children of Mozambique.

We have finished 3 years of service in Mozambique and have now returned to the United Kingdom, Bristol to continue our lives here. We will be jumping back into our professional lives here and settling down with the desire to start a family.

For those of you who have specifically contributed financially to us and our work in Mozambique we thank you and release you to invest your money to support other causes. We do hope you will continue to stay involved in our lives as we do know one day we will head back to Africa together and we would love you to continue this journey with us, as we desire to share in your life journey as well. Please stay in touch and every once in a while we may notify you of a new blog post to share our joys, prayers, desires and concerns. Please continue to see what our Iris Ministries' children's centre is up to by checking www.irisminzimpeto.org every so often and please continue to uplift those beautiful children & missionaries in prayer!

This is the IT team that Matthew poured into and handed over to. Please keep each one of them in your prayers to be able to maintain the work Matthew did and even to continue to move the IT department forward. Florindo will continue to teach computing to the community and centre children, Vovote will assist in maintaining and fixing the internet as well as teaching, Antonio will continue to maintain the phone lines and extensions, and Walter is overseeing the whole area.

Please keep the medical department in your prayers as they are in need of Western nurses for sure. Sheri did her best to train up the Mozambicans and hand over more and more responsibilities to see the Mozambican nurses working independently, safely and efficiently, yet they are very reliant on oversight and do not have it to the level they did while Sheri was there. Our prayers are that the children will remain healthy and each nurse will remain conscientious and responsible.

Of course we already miss the beautiful children so much and it has not been an easy decision to leave Mozambique, but we know that God is in control and He loves and cares for His children more than we ever could, so we know each one of us, Matthew and I, and the children in Mozambique, are in good hands.

With so much love and appreciation for all you have poured into us over these last years,

Matthew & Sheri Steer