The Fruitful Vine
_edited_edited.jpg)
About Us
A Videira Frutífera (The Fruitful Vine) is in Pemba Metuge’s district in the village of Naminawe. It is a space that was created for several different purposes. It is, first of all, a place of employment for refugees of Northern Mozambique who have been dislocated due to the high number of terrorist attacks in the area. It is secondly a place where many fruit bearing trees and crops will provide food for the greater community and in the future will be sold as food for the larger region. It will also be a place of community and greater education for people in the area and will provide housing for missionaries and visitors who are partnering with our vision.
Currently there are four families that are working on the farm, growing crops of corn (milho), sugarcane (cana-de-açúcar), moringa, sweet potato (batata-doce) and several kinds of fruit trees: orange (larangeira), banana (bananeiras), indian almond (amendoeira), mango (mangueira), atis (ateira), lemon (limoneira), avocado (abacateira), and cashew (cajueiro). The farm also has chickens. The farm manager, Jorge, is responsible for maintaining the farm, buying necessary equipment or provisions and paying the workers. The communications manager, Omar, takes pictures of activities at the farm and gives us monthly updates.
%20(1).jpg)
Mission
We want to be able to consistently employ hundreds of Mozambican refugees with the farm. This would mean that the farm could have livestock, chickens, crops, etc., as well as fruit-bearing trees, to benefit the community where the diets lack a lot of nutrition. We want to build many houses; some for the refugees, some for orphans, and some for missionaries who will live and work at the farm or center. We also have the goal to become self-sustaining; using the money gained from the farming to pay the workers and buy everything necessary for the center. The overarching goal with all of this is to be a place where Jesus’ love can be taught and experienced and the kingdom of God can be advanced.
Background
We are a Mozambican-American family with 3 girls, serving Jesus. We reside in the USA and have contacts and friends in Mozambique. After seeing firsthand the vast needs of the refugee crises in Northern Mozambique, we felt God calling us to buy a plot of land and start a farm in order to help. We also have felt God calling us to various fields of mission in the future and this plot of land seems to be the perfect place for many of those fields to merge: education, children’s homes, missionary training, farming, etc. The land is in Naminaue (1 hour’s drive from Pemba, Northern Mozambique). We bought the first section of land on the 28th of September, 2021 and the second portion was purchased in 2023. We have started off with just a few dislocated families farming for their own benefit, raising chickens, planting a few crops and some fruit trees.
Partner with Us
Monthly Needs
Currently the monthly salary for the farm workers’ (as well as Jorge and Omar’s) families that we pay is $410. You can partner with us monthly to help continue providing for the families that are already employed by sending monthly gifts.
Projects
Future needs/ projects:
-
Water cisterns
-
Water tanks
-
Construction of houses
-
More plants for farm
-
More animals/ fences and shelters, etc.
-
Salaries for more workers
-
Tools for workers
-
Furnishings for houses and schools
-
Water filters
-
Sponsoring students
-
Missionary salaries
-
Road building
-
Land clearing
-
Government documents/ taxes
