Last Sunday Today we travel to Chirundu to join them in services. As a group they are struggling due to leadership. Their attendance is often just the young men who have come from the south, 7 or so I am told. So we will come to encourage. They have also tended to avoid working with the other congregations in the… Read more »

Nearing the End We are nearing the end of the program. I will leave for Lusaka on Monday and fly back to the US on Tuesday. It is always a bit sad for me to leave. But, it will be good to be home and see everyone again. Today we will do at least 2 more wells. There is a… Read more »

The Enemy We set out this morning for Chitumbi to “open” a congregation. Chitumbi is about 20+ kilometers out from Siavonga on a “bush” type road. This means there is a road but there are a lot of bumps, rocks etc. that make it a slow and rough ride. When we arrived we found the village head man. To our… Read more »

More Well Work Today we will be repairing 2 wells located pretty far away within the district. One is at a community school and the other is at a government school. A community school is one that comes about because a remote village decides to band together and build a school and staff it. But what usually happens is that… Read more »

Opening new congregations My last days in Zambia are going to be busy. We are planning on refurbishing a few more wells. We also will be working on planting (they say opening here) two congregations. I have written before about the congregation at Chitumbi. But with Gilbert Mutelesi’s visit to the Dakota area I learned a bit more about procedure…. Read more »