Muyaba update
Prayer Requests:
Continued prayer for health, Malaria season is coming up soon!
Wisdom while working with the poor, we just want to point them to Jesus.
For the upcoming training school, we would love some over seas students to mix with the Zambian students. Also for wisdom in walking along side these students.
Pray for the children that come on Saturdays, alot come from abusive homes, and very poor homes. We would love to start feeding them even one saturday a month as most of them probably come here hungry.
For Kathryn, she is starting to feel home sick especially as christmas season is coming up.
Projects going on right now and needs along with them.
Clinic Project: The foundation is finished! We are onto making bricks for the walls with our interlocking brick maker. We are hoping to have the walls and the roof up before rainy season. We are still in need of $10,000 to finish the clinic, and outfit it with furniture.
As we are making out own bricks we are making a big hole in the ground on base, normally this wouldn’t be a big deal any where, but since it rains for four months, and idle water breads mosquitos, e cannot have the hole just there. So we are taking that opportunity to do a....
Fish Pond: With a fish pond we can share our baby fish and see other people make their own little fish pond for their families, which would increase the nutrition by ALOT, as most people don’t eat meat unless it’s a very special occasion. We need about $400 to put plastic down in the hole, and buy a pump to keep the water circulating.
Food Project: As an example to the community around us we want to model small scale food production with lots of varieties for your diet. Along with water conservation. As a model we will need drip irregation pipes we have $100 of the $350 we need for this.
We also want to plant fruit tress all around the base for food for the kids that come to the base throughout the week, and a variety of foods for the base staff and students on the base. A fruit tree costs $8, we would love to plant 100 fruit trees on base. Thats $800.00 - 50 fruit trees would be $400.00
Our personal house projects
As the rainy season is coming in a month we had to build a blockade in front of our door to prevent flooding of our house, it is 3 cinder blocks high, we laid flat stone on the ground around this to make a porch about 10 feet by 6 feet, and put a tin roof over top. This is almost finished, and we praise God for that!
We have also got all the materials for screens and have hired one of our YWAM staff who is saving up for paying the bride price so he can marry his fiance! This cost us much more then we first thought it would. But in the end we will have screens over all our windows. Because of the way the windows work here in Zambia he had to make whole new frames and then the window doors with the screen on them. This will make the house safer in terms of mosquitos, snakes, and spiders coming in (among other things) We have been finding BIG poisonous spiders in the house, one tarantula in the bathroom, so we are praying these screens and Gods grace will keep us safe.
We still don’t have a ceiling, and although this is not something that will effect our health or safety, ceiling will grant some sanity as the rains pound down on our tin roof for 4 to 5 months. And will give the house a more finished feel. But since it is not effecting anything we have kept putting it to the back of the list. This will cost $450.00.
Something very common here is power outages, our power is actually turned off by the one electricity company in all of Zambia when ever they feel like “Load shedding”. This has been everyday now, being out in the farms this means the only light is the moon, and since the sun goes completely down by 6:30pm, it makes it hard to cook, bath the kids, or do much : ) We do live by candle light which does work, we put our candles in the top of our coke bottles. BUT there is a solution we would LOVE to have. Basically it’s a back up light powered by a battery, the battery charges when your electricity is on, and this battery powers 6 things in your house. If the power was to go out for a few days the battery produces electricity for you up to 3 days. This would costs us $450.00
Thats what is up for us here in Zambia, mostly preparation for the rains to that are coming, much like the prep that happens for winter in the great white North!
We have been meeting up with people hungry for change in their lives, and have had opportunities to challenge them and walk along side, I have to say besides the ids that come on Saturday this has been the most touching in our lives. To see people turn to Jesus is just something else!
