Hello again!!
Team Overflow has been in Livingstone, Zambia for a couple weeks now. I wanted to share what a typical day/week looks like for us. This month, we are partnering with Come Foundation and Africa 4 Jesus. Currently these two organizations have joined together for the time being. We live in a house with 5 others from Africa (some that usually help with Africa 4 Jesus and some that usually help with Come Foundation). This house is actually the home of the founders of Come Foundation, but they’re currently out of the country.
Above: Team Overflow wearing African chitenges (traditional African wraps that women wear as skirts)
Above: Our home for the month
We wake up early (between 4:30am-7am) every morning to read/have quiet time with the Lord (and also workout if you’re Tiff and Khurry haha). We shower with buckets of warm water, and wash our laundry in the bath tub to hang on the line. Cooking happens over a coal fire out back unless there happens to be electricity (usually there is only power during the late night hours). Our days have 15-17 hour power cuts. Zambia does this because they get their power from the water and they’re currently in a drought. We cook all of our meals together and typically eat pasta or nshima (an african dish made of corn meal that looks like mashed potatoes but is thick like dough) with chicken and a sauce/gravy made with tomatoes and onions. This month also consists of killing lots of large spiders and large cockroaches in our house. We also experience extreme heat with temperatures averaging about 105 degrees every day. It is HOT here.
Above: This is how we cook our meals
A typical week for us looks like:
Sunday– Church at Kingdom Impact Ministries in the morning until around 1pm, come home to cook lunch, do yard work around the house (ex: pulling weeds), and rest
Above: This is Pastor Fred (the pastor of KIM)
Monday– A day off to go into town for grocery shopping, getting wifi to contact family/friends, blogging, running errands, laundry, etc.
Above: Trying on hair pieces at a Zambian market store on one of our off days
Tuesday– Group devotions with everyone after breakfast, community outreach all day, designated time in the evening for praise and worship (sorry I have no pictures from this- I haven’t really gotten my phone out during outreach time or I even just leave it at home)
Wednesday– Group devotions with everyone after breakfast, chores in the morning (cleaning the house, spraying for bugs, mopping, taking out trash, etc.), leading a women’s Bible study in the afternoon
Above: This is Violet. She is a daughter of one of the women who comes to our Bible study
Thursday– Group devotions with everyone after breakfast, community outreach in the morning, leading a Bible study in the community in the afternoon (Again, I have no pictures from this part. Sorry!)
Friday– Sabbath day (this looks different for everyone on our team)
Saturday– Group devotions once again, inviting kids to come by for our kids program, doing our kids program which includes a bible story, dancing, singing, games, and a snack
Above: Group picture with the kids
If you’d like to see more pictures of what we have been doing (foods we’ve been eating, Zambian Independence day festivities, dancing, prayer for the nations event, etc.) in Zambia as well as the previous 2 months of my race, you can check out my World Race photo album on Facebook here.
With love,
Hals
