Our Missions Honeymoon Adventure in Zambia

 

"Sunbow" God's Special Blessing

 





Our Missions Honeymoon  Adventure in Zambia!

Go God Go!

Thank you for your many prayers as Karen and I begin our Journey together in Faith sharing Jesus with all we meet.



What an awesome God we serve! Our time in Zambia was filled with so many Godincidences and blessing beyond measure. The Sunbow pictured above appeared on our first Saturday there; just before a weekend visit from friends from a local church in Lusaka that came to camp out with us. What a great picture of our Lord's majesty and grace.

The weather was HOT, many days surpassing 100 degrees but it did cool down in the evenings for the most part and we did have a small fan to help circulate the air; at least during the times when we had electricity.

Karen and I arrived on Tuesday the 12th of October as the children all gathered and sang to us, welcoming us to their home. Many tears flowed as our hearts were just about to burst with the joy of being with our children.

Our days were busy and filled with joy as we got up a little before 6 every morning, joining the children in singing and prayer then walking with them up to the school where we  helped sort books, crafts, supplies and etc. for the school and sort books for the book store that had recently opened. While we were there a lady bought almost 800 books form the store! Best sellers are Bibles and Christian books.
In the afternoons, Karen taught cross stitching to the children and sewing. The older girls each picked out material to make jumpers  and Karen taught them how to follow a pattern while I took pictures and showed slide shows of pics taken the day before on the porch for all to see.




Our Delaware Cargo Container!

 The cargo container that our children had prayed full  last June was there on site but we never did any work on it as we had so much to do.  While the container was on site and in good shape, it still had a government seal and had not "officially" cleared customs yet. But Praise God, it is there! Filled with over 5,000 books, 7,500 articles of clothing, 300+ pairs of shoes, and so much more! Thank you Jesus for bringing it safely to our dear friends at the Village. Lord, use the contents to help "give a cold cup of water" to those so desperately in need and to help provide needed funding to feed and minister to our children there.

Time at the school with the children was just as special as it could ever get. Having Matilda bring out her football for a catch, seeing the children all wearing their backpacks we had done with them in July to carry homework back and forth was as special as it gets.

We helped the Hamelyrcks and our children from the Village of Hope at the community center with a special Hope Club Gospel Presentation and Gospel Airplane craft by Karen that around 130 children from Green Farm came to. What a blessing as after the lesson many raised their hands to thank us for sharing Jesus with them. Thank you Jesus for all you are doing; continue to open eyes and give us many more opportunities to share your love here. Keep us focused on what is truly important and not on the things of this world.

 The one worship service we attended at Hope Church, our first as husband and wife, was a joint service with our good friends from the Lusaka Church with our good friend Pastor Zulu preaching and, of course, our children leading worship. We could just feel the presence of the Lord as we stood and sang praises to our Lord. We even met Matilda's younger sister who came for the very first time!

 There is so much more we could share, it was as blessed and special a trip as we could have ever dreamed of. Karen shared on the way home that she couldn't dream of a better way to start our marriage than to go and minister with our dear friends at the Village of Hope in Zambia

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 Thank you again for all your many and continued fervent prayer as Karen and I go forward in faith, looking to Jesus and excited to see where He leads us next as we seek to share His love with children and teens here in the States and throughout the world.

Until Every Child Knows,

Big Jim and Karen

Matt. 19:14

James 1:27