Well, I’ve slacked a little on the blogging. My apologies to you!
My team and I have been in Zambia for almost two weeks now. And we have had a blast. I won’t say that things are perfect, but we love the ministries that we have been involved in.
Speaking of my team, the end of month 8 in Romania brought team changes to our squad. This meant saying goodbye to the Seven Wonders and hello to the Saltines.
We are a group of 6 who are never short on laughs and that has made this month quite enjoyable.
Our set-up this month unfortunately has split up our team for housing and for about half of our ministry days. So, we are still figuring out this team thing and I’m still figuring out how to lead our team. When we aren’t together that much it makes stepping into team leader things a little difficult.
But, with the way our team was split up, I have had the privilege to live with one of our host pastors, Pastor Chola, and his family, alongside Ryan and Megan Bueche (my married couple teammates). And we have named our mini-team “the B amigos.”
Pastor Chola has led Ryan, Megan and myself into villages near and far to share the Gospel. *Sometimes seriously far. According to my phone we have walked over 45 miles on our ministry days with him.
Pastor Chola is the pastor of Lumpampa Baptist Church and we have spent nearly all of our time in his area encouraging the believers there and sharing the Gospel to anyone that we come across as well as preaching on Sundays, leading worship, and teaching Bible study on Wednesdays. We have been welcomed into hut after hut to share with families and it has been such an incredible ministry to be a part of.
We have also spent our Thursday nights in fellowship with another team from our squad that is in the town of Serenje and with the other pastors that are in the town. We worship together and someone shares a short devotion. This means that I carry my guitar the 20 minute walk to the church we meet at. At times, I have had hordes of children surrounding me with the guitar. But it always means that near and far I can hear shouts of “BANJO! BANJO! HEY BANJO LADY!”
The first few times, it left me scratching my head because, being from western North Carolina, I know the difference between a banjo and a guitar. But here, the word for guitar is banjo.
So, I have quickly become known as the banjo lady throughout the town and surrounding villages of Serenje. It has made for quite the entertainment.
Our time here in Zambia is unfortunately wrapping up very quickly.
We have had some interesting experiences for sure, that maybe one day I will elaborate on all of them.
As far as prayer goes, pray for our last week here to be full of good experiences, for the pastors as they continue to minister to the people of Serenje and the surrounding villages, and for our squad as we travel to Lesotho.
Thanks for catching up with me!
More about Zambia to come soon!
Until then, enjoy these photos!
