Hosting Home Fellowship Group
Andrea and I have had the privilege of hosting the Makeni home fellowship group from Lusaka Baptist Church. Every Tuesday night we gather for a Bible study which the whole church is going through. Whoever hosts the group for the month also leads the study. The groups is quite large for a home group with an average attendance of adults at around 20-25. Right now I’m leading the study on a section about the knowability of God. It’s really been interesting for us as a family. The groups loves to hang around and have fellowship until 9:30 PM – which is late for our kids, but they have grown to love it.
Stockpiling Food
Megan Bloemker is responsible for coordinating our ACTION Zambia short-term teams. With an eye for detail and a gift for administration, she has devised all sorts of schedules and documents to aid in our preparation for visiting short term teams. Crossroads Christian Church will be our second team to come in 2010. Women on our team have volunteered to cook meals in advance. We then freeze them so that they are ready to go whenever the team is ready for them. Megan has a master meal plan and knows just how much food is needed. She makes sure that a fresh assortment of fruits, vegetables and ingredients are on hand at all times. Before a team arrives, she goes on a shopping spree and buys around three carts full of food. I snapped a pic of Megan and Jailos showing off the food purchased for the upcoming team.
Widman Departure
Michelle Widman has been serving on the Zambia field for the past 10 months as an intern. On Monday 21 June, Andrea and I and the kids trekked out to the airport to see Michelle off. I miscalculated the time that Michelle’s flight was leaving, so we got to the airport at 0600 hrs rather than 0700. We ended up taking the kids to a small eatery at the airport that’s just opened up called the Copper Chimney. We ordered tea for four – since our entire family is addicted to it in the mornings. Ian is an up-and-coming consumer of it and requires it in the mornings. We were able to to watch the last little bit of the Brazil match until Michelle arrived. We were amazed when watched the Brazilian football star Kaka get the red card.
We are sad to see Michelle go and will miss her greatly. Her work focused primarily on ACTION Zambia’s HIV/AIDS ministry called the CROSS Project. Along with her ministry colleagues John Chitambo and Eta Imasiku, she made her way into Lusaka’s urban compounds by minibus – on a daily basis to teach. Near the end of her assignment in Zambia, Michelle joined a women’s basketball team at UNZA (University of Zambia) as a means of relationship evangelism and discipleship.