I apologize, its been a while since I have blogged, but due to our limited wifi here in Zambia, we walked a few miles to find this one, and it’s very spotty. Once we head to debrief I will try and post more.
Zambia has been a busy month, we started out the month by working in a little school in a village that took about an hour to walk to every day. The walk was GORGEOUS, I’ve loved getting to walk everywhere and see the countryside. Zambia is the most beautiful African country we have been to so far in my opinion.
The kids were wonderful, though living in extreme poverty. We shared bible stories, testimonies, sang songs, and answered lots of questions from the students about who God really is.
We moved halfway through the month to work in a different school in a different town a bus ride away by about 12 hours. the feel of this school is very different, and while we have done a bit of teaching and songs with the kids, most of our time has consisted with doing intercessory prayer throughout the day for the students, classes, teachers, families, and all around the town. The town folk are not as friendly as our first location, we often get cat called or tried to be picked up walking to and from places. This is not a new thing on the race by any means, but it is more prominent here. The kids fight constantly at the school, their clothes are falling a part, and often times they don’t have shoes. None of this is surprising because the homes they come from the parents either beat their kids, or are drunk and thus they don’t get the attention and parenting they need. We are at one of the poorest neighborhoods in town. While we were in our first town there was a student who had a sibling pass away from Malaria, an old man passed away at the school, and we attended a funeral in our current town of the father of a student at the school. spiritual ware fare has also been pretty heavy on our team while we’ve been here.
I tell you all of this because Zambia needs prayer. Our time here has been increasingly hard, the need everywhere is so great. As a team there have been many tears, and a few breakdowns because of the amount of hardship and distance these people have from the Lord in their hearts.
God is here. God is here in all of the poverty. God is here in the broken families. God is here with the children dying over malaria. His heart is breaking with ours every day. Amidst all of the darkness we feel, his blinding LIGHT is carried in us everywhere we go. We take our stand every day as warriors and intercede like we believe he is going to bring this people back to him and change their lives for good, because he is. We’ve seen it one way or another every month. In our own personal lives. God is very much alive and on the MOVE. Prepare your hearts for him to do big things. Expect the impossible, because he makes what seems impossible in our lives seem minuscule because of the sheer magnitude of his WHO HE IS. This brings tears to my eyes, because he cares so much for each of these children and each of us, and just wants us to know that. Life with God has brought me alive in ways I never imagined. Do you want to see crazy miracles? Do you want to feel alive every day, and be completely changed? Follow God. Don’t follow other Christians. Forget that. If we try to model our lives off of one another, it will inevitably fail each time because we are only human. Jesus will change your life. He will never leave or forsake us. I am so passionate about this because it’s the truest thing in my life.
We have one week left here before we head to debrief in Malawi. Pray for Zambia, pray for us in our time left here. That we will love well, and pray without seasing.
