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Greetings from distant Africa. At times it feels that we are living just round the corner from Eltham as we have so many English here at...

I first felt God’s calling to go to Zimbabwe when John Valentine came to speak at Eltham Green Fellowship. I had a skill I felt the Lord...

Naomi Vaughan (now Naomi Lawrence) writes: My first trip was August 1995-Jan 1996 (6 months) to be with my parents Bryn and Sue Vaughan,...

I heard John Valentine sharing the vision at Cliff College Summer Conference – about the Ameva Farm/Bible School Project. A bible school...

It began during the Fellowship conference at Rora in 1990 / 1991. At the conference it was announced that a work party was being arranged...

John Valentine invited me to go with him to Zimbabwe to look at a farm in a town called Hartley in 1981. It’s now called Chegutu. John...

My First introduction to Ameva was when John asked me at the 1992 Rora Conference if I would lead a Tear Fund Team (Work Party) to Ameva....

John Valentine spoke at Cliff College in 1980 about Ameva. He preached from John’s gospel on resurrection life and at the end he asked...

My six months were spent working at the school, whilst Graham worked alongside two Tear fund graduates around the farm. I taught maths...

Having lived at Ameva from 1982 for few years, also many visits our last time there was 2012, yet when not there bodily they have always...

What a tremendous privilege it was to visit Zimbabwewhen eight of us, that is Jim Bailey, Michelle Bailey, Rachel Snow, Frances Greenall,...

In September 1998 Philip and I, along with our three children, Abigail (6), Kezia (4) and Jacob (1 ½) travelled to Zimbabwe for a six...

As Margaret and I look back and reflect on our involvement with Ameva, we realise how much influence it has had upon our lives and the...

We have just returned from a three-week visit to Zimbabwe, staying with John and Celia in their house in Chegutu. We were able to arrange...

Getting off the aircraft in Salisbury Zimbabwe (now Harare) was likened to going into an oven, but it was October, usually the hottest...

August 1983 Getting to Ameva took a while as I travelled overland from Egypt. I arrived in Chegutu by bus late at night so rolled out my...

Martin & Marian write “1988 was the year when having sold up in the UK and waited for about 18 months for permission to come to Zimbabwe...

I was in Zimbabwe between 18 November and 6 December. This time I had the blessing of travelling with Terry Watson. We had a great time...

I lost count of the number of times I visited Zimbabwe, but it was at least 15x beginning around 1990. My most vivid personal memory is...

My dad, Emson Mbewe came to Ameva in 1970, two years after I was born. He had been “given” to JJ Swanepoel by the latter’s father because...