Tuesday, June 2, 2009

second week in Zambia

It's been a good week since I've been back...mostly been working on the house and getting started with summer Wesley. Here's some pictures of the last week of the trip. This is Jean Claude, a student at the University of Zambia and president of Chi Alpha (a campus ministry). He attended Dave's conference last year and ,over dinner at our place, he told us about how he has started several discipleship groups at the college...

This is Jack (on the left) and Simon (on the right). We stayed in the guest house of a Baptist seminary surrounded by other small houses with the students and their families. I let them listen to my iPod the first day and these two boys, especially Simon, came around the house to play the rest of the week...
They were preparing to pave the road that led to the seminary. Dave and I walked down it everyday to get to the grocery store. The road had large rocks just below the level of the upcoming pavement, so about twice an hour you'd hear a boom and feel the shake as they blew them up with explosives! In this picture, you can see pedestrians on the right side of the road walking past the dust storm of a freshly exploded rock! While you might expect a road closure or something like that, they had a guy with a whistle and a red flag...unbelievable.
These are the pastors and deacons that we taught the second week (I'm taking the picture!). It was somewhat disappointing considering that the pastor setting up the conference told Dave that he'd be able to get more pastors than last year (25) and wasn't able to do so because of lack of forethought and pre-planning. The week was good, though, and those that came were extremely receptive to the material. We're not despising the day of small beginnings--the kingdom is yeast in the dough and a mustard seed...
Thanks so much for your prayers while I was away.