An update from Phil and Jennifer:
Today is Saturday. We slept in (as in we didn't get up until 6:30 this morning). Most of us even slept through the bells that ring from the Catholic church every morning at 6am!
For our morning adventure, seven of us began Phil's driver's training. There's a shortage of drivers around the SHIP complex, so Tim and Phil have taken on the task of driving on the left hand side. Between potholes, people, roundabouts (did we mention you drive on the left here?), missing street signs and no maps, navigation is a true advent-ure. We only made 5 wrong turns/ "explorations," but everyone is home safely.
Laurie stayed behind to help a group of ladies from the Mapalo Vineyard cook lunch for the Vineyard Conference (300 people). This consisted of chopping and gutting 25-30 chickens into 12 pieces each, chopping up 30 heads of cabbage, chopping and peeling a bushel of tomatoes, onions, peppers, and cooking and stirring huge vats of nshima over hot fires (the main dish in Zambian meals). As a reward, the women treated themselves to chicken liver in the middle of the morning. Yum, yum!
Zambians from Vineyard churches all over Zambia are in Ndola this weekend. Stan was asked to share at one of the afternoon sessions. At the beginning of the trip Stan felt the Lord would ask him to share at some point, and this was a confirmation of that. He gave a great, spirit-filled talk about the importance of unity and strong relationships within the church. His talk was supposed to start at 1400 hours (2pm) but when we arrived at the church lunch still wasn't ready (see above story of lunch preparations) so we sat back to wait on "African time." Speaking through a translator is always interesting - the Americans would laugh at his jokes right on cue, followed several minutes later by the Zambians after they heard the translation.
All team members are healthy and happy. We're so blessed to be here. Thank you for your prayers!
Today is Saturday. We slept in (as in we didn't get up until 6:30 this morning). Most of us even slept through the bells that ring from the Catholic church every morning at 6am!
For our morning adventure, seven of us began Phil's driver's training. There's a shortage of drivers around the SHIP complex, so Tim and Phil have taken on the task of driving on the left hand side. Between potholes, people, roundabouts (did we mention you drive on the left here?), missing street signs and no maps, navigation is a true advent-ure. We only made 5 wrong turns/ "explorations," but everyone is home safely.
Laurie stayed behind to help a group of ladies from the Mapalo Vineyard cook lunch for the Vineyard Conference (300 people). This consisted of chopping and gutting 25-30 chickens into 12 pieces each, chopping up 30 heads of cabbage, chopping and peeling a bushel of tomatoes, onions, peppers, and cooking and stirring huge vats of nshima over hot fires (the main dish in Zambian meals). As a reward, the women treated themselves to chicken liver in the middle of the morning. Yum, yum!
Zambians from Vineyard churches all over Zambia are in Ndola this weekend. Stan was asked to share at one of the afternoon sessions. At the beginning of the trip Stan felt the Lord would ask him to share at some point, and this was a confirmation of that. He gave a great, spirit-filled talk about the importance of unity and strong relationships within the church. His talk was supposed to start at 1400 hours (2pm) but when we arrived at the church lunch still wasn't ready (see above story of lunch preparations) so we sat back to wait on "African time." Speaking through a translator is always interesting - the Americans would laugh at his jokes right on cue, followed several minutes later by the Zambians after they heard the translation.
All team members are healthy and happy. We're so blessed to be here. Thank you for your prayers!
2 comments:
Josh,
I have a personal friend who is a priest with the Holy Ghost Fathers (African Missionarys). He is now 86 and retired. His primary mission area was Nigera. I mentioned your trip to him and he said he will pray for you and your team - the Work of The Lord, in Africa is dear to him.
Grandpa
Grandp
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