Quick Update

We have sporadic power and cell connection... but here is a quick word for now. Thanks for praying!

Hello all…

I wish I had an image to display. I will work to get one put up soon. Our team is doing very well! We have already had a number of incredible adventures – and we are just one week into our time in Zambia.

Our team split up and went out to remote villages sharing Christ alongside our Zambian friends. We were a LONG way from home!!! But God was good and many, many people became Christ-followers. Three new churches have begun and are promising to be strong and vibrant. By next weekend, one of our church-planters will be back in those villages, following up with training for the new believers, teaching them about baptism, and leading more people to Christ. We are living in the book of Acts!

I asked two of the young pastors if they imagined living in their homes for a long, long time. “No,” they both said immediately, “we’re ready to go wherever the Lord calls us. But we won’t remain where we are.” These men are willing to pack up their young families and go into even more remote and primitive places for the sake of the gospel. I am shamed by their passion for Christ.

We are now back at the Hope Center. The guys are painting, digging, cleaning, plumbing, scrubbing the glass windows, etc, etc. There is a joy in our group, even through the hot, dirty work.

Last night we prayed under the majestic stars. God is in this place!

Pray as we present the soccer goals to three schools. They are ecstatic that they will get REAL, steel soccer goals – complete with nets! We will use this as an opportunity to build goodwill and the gospel.

Two other organizations came to town recently, attempting to begin orphan works. The city counsel shut them down, saying that they were unprepared and too disorganized for the work here. They told them to go visit the Hope Center so that they could learn how to do it right! Now the city has added land to our parcel for growing more food! Praise God – HE has blessed.

Jeff