Kalembo Project: Zambia

Friday, January 27, 2017

Friday

Friday
We started back to Lusaka this morning. On the way we stopped to see Pastor
Falo and his family.

Pastor Falo has been planting churches in the Kapiri Mposhi. He has already
planted 3 churches in the area.

After planting churches and trying to support a family, he decided being a
bi-vocational pastor would be the best route to take. He is currently in
college also to learn sign language. There is a high demand for special
education teachers.

We the drove on to Lusaka and ate dinner to celebrate Brian's birthday!
When we returned to Alfred's, the power was out, so there was only
candlelight. Carol came out of the kitchen with a wonderfully decorated,
homemade birthday cake! We sang happy birthday to him, but couldn't blow
out the candles since that was our source of light!

Muumbe's niece was also at the house dressed in her graduation gown.
Earlier in the day she had graduated from Zambia University! Carol had made
a second graduation cake for her! We didn't even try to eat them both!

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Thursday

We started out by going to see Muumbe's first school. The God Is Able school is currently being housed in 2 side by side houses. They have 200 kids in 10 grades starting at 3 years old to 7th grade. Some of the room were so crowded, the door wouldn't even open all the way! They were even holding class in the 1 car garage!

The kids put on a program for us, singing and speaking. It was wonderful to hear Bible verses being recited, and Christian songs being sung. It reminded me of vacation Bible school!

We then went to see Muumbe's new school that is being built. It is located a couple of miles west of the current school. A 3 room class building has been constructed and is waiting on windows, electricity, and painting to be finished. John from Livingstone came up and installed the rafters and roof. As always, he did a fantastic job!

We then went to Mapalo Pilgrim Wesleyan Church. This is the church that Brian and Brandon visited in 2004 and touched their hearts. We met pastor Samson and a few ladies from the church.

After lunch, we went to visit Pastor Pezo in her home. She told us her touching story of being called to the ministry and planting a church in south east Ndola. When she came to Ndola, there were 2 families in the church, which meets in a school. They now are running about 60 in attendance.