1 Timothy 6:17-19
" Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. Command them to do good, top be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of life, that is truly life. "
After I read this today it makes our life style make so much more sense...
Why does the bible talk about riches like it is uncertain when the world says the exact opposite to us, education, money and jobs that bring money is what IS CERTAIN when nothing else is. This is the WHOLE goal of most people in this world, security. And yet the bible says even in riches there is none. Either way rich or poor we need to lean on Jesus.
We are in a really hard place financially right now and it really feels like it would be better to be working and getting rid of this
access" debt we cant pay off right now. God needs to speak and we need to obey.
Please pray for us and let us know if you are willing to help, our flights to canada are $1900.00 MORE then we expected. We thought we had saved enough up to now for them, but have got the last quote with the new fuel surcharges, and are almost 2000 short.
If you are willing please let my mom know, or us personally. We need to buy our flights home in the next two weeks.
When we are home in Canada Vinjelu will be working, because it looks like we wont have a choice, which is fine! If you know of any jobs please let us know, something making more then $15/hr.
Thanx guys, love you all!
Friday, March 11, 2011
Monday, March 07, 2011
Marvin Daka
Marvin Daka
Marvin Daka finished his DTS with YWAM Lusaka last year in October. He left DTS with a heart for rural church planting. This is his heart, his big dream. He went to find a job immediately after DTS, and thank GOD found work, and worked right up until he came and joined us on staff here in YWAM Lusaka. He felt a good first step for him would be to be under a YWAM ministry for a few years before going out on the "frontiers" planting churches. He worked and saved enough to pay for his fees for 5 months.
Coming up this May 2011 he has nothing else, and has not found any support from his Zambian church who feel they dont have anything to give him, and his family and friends.
Marvin is in need of $60 a month to stay in missions.
This is a GREAT opportunity to support a LOCAL missionary here in Zambia, with a heart for his people.
Please would consider supporting him. If he was to have $60 a month, this would be absolute bare minimum. No spending money at all. So he could of corse use more like $200 a month.
THANK YOU
and I look forward to hearing from you
Marvin Daka finished his DTS with YWAM Lusaka last year in October. He left DTS with a heart for rural church planting. This is his heart, his big dream. He went to find a job immediately after DTS, and thank GOD found work, and worked right up until he came and joined us on staff here in YWAM Lusaka. He felt a good first step for him would be to be under a YWAM ministry for a few years before going out on the "frontiers" planting churches. He worked and saved enough to pay for his fees for 5 months.
Coming up this May 2011 he has nothing else, and has not found any support from his Zambian church who feel they dont have anything to give him, and his family and friends.
Marvin is in need of $60 a month to stay in missions.
This is a GREAT opportunity to support a LOCAL missionary here in Zambia, with a heart for his people.
Please would consider supporting him. If he was to have $60 a month, this would be absolute bare minimum. No spending money at all. So he could of corse use more like $200 a month.
THANK YOU
and I look forward to hearing from you
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Kapampa people
Every wednesday we start the day with worship together in the class room as staff, and soon our DTS students will be joining us. This morning I was leading worship, I got a few verses and wrote them on the white board, and put on selected songs on the computer... was really nice, and God was there, which is the best.
We then gathered our people and got in the car for what we thought we be a quick 5 minute drive to a government school near our place, out of the 100 kids that come to our program on Saturdays probably 75% of them come from that school. We started off by giving two women a ride down the road, which ended up being a 30minute drive on a road not too bad for "off road" but not so good for our LOW mini van! The ladies asked us to take them all the way home since they had a 50kg bag of mili meal to carry, I thanked God we were there to give them a ride all that way. they told us to turn onto their "road" which looked like a field of grass about 5 feet high to me, with cars having gone over it a few times recently : ) I was like "are you sure we should go down this road!" Surprisingly it was not bad, like joy riding in a wheat field I suppose. After getting the ladies to their house we got on with our journey to the school.
We are wanting to do assemblies with the kids from this school, getting involved where they are, instead of only here at YWAM. We found out it is a VERY LONG WALK for many of the kids to get to school. And they have 1000 kids! The thing is, most of the kids we have met from this school cannot read, and are in grade 8 or higher. The classes are WAY TOO BIG, and alot of kids are slipping "through the cracks". Anyway it looks like we will be able to be going there maybe twice a month on wednesday afternoons.
After this we got home and found tobi, which was nice to sit and visit for a while. I was feeling sick and tired by that time. We had baked "fries" and pork chops for lunch. BY about 3pm we had to say good by to Tobi and head on into the community called Kapampa. This is where you will see some photos from today, only because we have some relationship with these people did we ask to take some photos of them. I uploaded all of the photos from this visit on our facebook.
So we walked up past the mud church with doors that dont fit the front, this is where the DTS from last year held weekly bible studies, another ministry opportunity we may take up again soon.
We got there and greated everybody, they got out their two chairs and cleaned them off for us to sit on, and we sat asking how is so and so... They always ask about tallish because she is always home napping when we go into the community in the afternoon. (With rebecca at the house). Anyway, we got to asking about going to see Gertrudes house again, Gertrude is a widow, who is a tiny tiny women, who lives in a mud house she built with her daughter, 2 meters high, and 3 meters long, and 2 meters wide. SMALL, too small even for a bed. She sleeps on the ground with a small rag tag blanket. And has different things making up her roof, i.e. A sheet of metal that was a oil barrow... Etc. We measured her house for a new roof, we will be putting up for her.
After doing measurements we went back and found more people had gathered. A lady was just leaving telling a story about her little 2 year old girl, who was very sick, fever of 40C, that wouldn't come down with tylenol. The baby tested negative for malaria, and yet they treated her for malaria, not looking for anything else wrong... She was still sick after the first course of treatment, the mom took her back and they gave her the STRONGEST malaria meds there are here, and after those she is even more sick.... The mom did know what to do, we gave her tips on how to physically keep the fever down, and also prayed for the girl of course, she left right after. Going to her brothers place, because apparently right now her husband is threatening to kill her. She is a second wife of this man, and beaten regularly. It made me so sad to watch her walk away with so much pain, and trouble in her life, not to mention poverty.
After they left we talked for a while with the family, prayed for their concerns, and left for the day.
We stopped by a “shop” for a coke, we warned them on the way there we would want the cokes because they have to walk a ways to get them out of someones fridge down the road :) haha!
So we got there and we got our cokes within 8 minutes : ) We love stopping here, it is a little shop run by a young couple, with kids almost the same age as ours, and the girl is even 4 months prego like me : ) Although she gets embarrassed when I point out that she is pregnant :) oh well. I sat on the ground, vinj sat in the wheel barrow and seth wanted to sit in the wheel barrow : ) and talked with people who passed by, and with the two girls there.
A good day.
We ended the day by watching UP with the kids, vinj had never seen it, and it is SO GOOD!
Bathed the kids, put them to bed, and now am here.
Ready for bed.
Goodnight world.
We then gathered our people and got in the car for what we thought we be a quick 5 minute drive to a government school near our place, out of the 100 kids that come to our program on Saturdays probably 75% of them come from that school. We started off by giving two women a ride down the road, which ended up being a 30minute drive on a road not too bad for "off road" but not so good for our LOW mini van! The ladies asked us to take them all the way home since they had a 50kg bag of mili meal to carry, I thanked God we were there to give them a ride all that way. they told us to turn onto their "road" which looked like a field of grass about 5 feet high to me, with cars having gone over it a few times recently : ) I was like "are you sure we should go down this road!" Surprisingly it was not bad, like joy riding in a wheat field I suppose. After getting the ladies to their house we got on with our journey to the school.
We are wanting to do assemblies with the kids from this school, getting involved where they are, instead of only here at YWAM. We found out it is a VERY LONG WALK for many of the kids to get to school. And they have 1000 kids! The thing is, most of the kids we have met from this school cannot read, and are in grade 8 or higher. The classes are WAY TOO BIG, and alot of kids are slipping "through the cracks". Anyway it looks like we will be able to be going there maybe twice a month on wednesday afternoons.
After this we got home and found tobi, which was nice to sit and visit for a while. I was feeling sick and tired by that time. We had baked "fries" and pork chops for lunch. BY about 3pm we had to say good by to Tobi and head on into the community called Kapampa. This is where you will see some photos from today, only because we have some relationship with these people did we ask to take some photos of them. I uploaded all of the photos from this visit on our facebook.
So we walked up past the mud church with doors that dont fit the front, this is where the DTS from last year held weekly bible studies, another ministry opportunity we may take up again soon.
We got there and greated everybody, they got out their two chairs and cleaned them off for us to sit on, and we sat asking how is so and so... They always ask about tallish because she is always home napping when we go into the community in the afternoon. (With rebecca at the house). Anyway, we got to asking about going to see Gertrudes house again, Gertrude is a widow, who is a tiny tiny women, who lives in a mud house she built with her daughter, 2 meters high, and 3 meters long, and 2 meters wide. SMALL, too small even for a bed. She sleeps on the ground with a small rag tag blanket. And has different things making up her roof, i.e. A sheet of metal that was a oil barrow... Etc. We measured her house for a new roof, we will be putting up for her.
After doing measurements we went back and found more people had gathered. A lady was just leaving telling a story about her little 2 year old girl, who was very sick, fever of 40C, that wouldn't come down with tylenol. The baby tested negative for malaria, and yet they treated her for malaria, not looking for anything else wrong... She was still sick after the first course of treatment, the mom took her back and they gave her the STRONGEST malaria meds there are here, and after those she is even more sick.... The mom did know what to do, we gave her tips on how to physically keep the fever down, and also prayed for the girl of course, she left right after. Going to her brothers place, because apparently right now her husband is threatening to kill her. She is a second wife of this man, and beaten regularly. It made me so sad to watch her walk away with so much pain, and trouble in her life, not to mention poverty.
After they left we talked for a while with the family, prayed for their concerns, and left for the day.
We stopped by a “shop” for a coke, we warned them on the way there we would want the cokes because they have to walk a ways to get them out of someones fridge down the road :) haha!
So we got there and we got our cokes within 8 minutes : ) We love stopping here, it is a little shop run by a young couple, with kids almost the same age as ours, and the girl is even 4 months prego like me : ) Although she gets embarrassed when I point out that she is pregnant :) oh well. I sat on the ground, vinj sat in the wheel barrow and seth wanted to sit in the wheel barrow : ) and talked with people who passed by, and with the two girls there.
A good day.
We ended the day by watching UP with the kids, vinj had never seen it, and it is SO GOOD!
Bathed the kids, put them to bed, and now am here.
Ready for bed.
Goodnight world.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Captin Bicard and his advantage & Extreme Home make over
So... I have been wishing for a weekend on the starship enterprise lately. No not because of their "coulorful" tite spandex suites.... (except dianna whats her name... she always had great outfits, I think because she was the "pretty girl") Anyway, it's because fo their food ordering system especially in the captins room... "early grey tea, hot, no sugar".... and so on. How nice to beable to order exactly what you feel like when you want it... (well besides when you are fighting cyborgs of corse) My nausia and lack of food choice is starting to get to me... and why wouldn't it... at 12 weeks pregnant that makes exactly 90 days I have felt sick all day everyday. : ( ok, let me cry on your shoulder for a minute.... boohoo.
Anyway, food is powerful isn't it. I watched Food Inc. Again today (because we have exactly 6 movie from canada on our lap top, and 7 episodes of The Office, all of which I have watched MULTIPLE times!) so, I have been wanting good fresh corn chips with home made salsa (alicia Hoffarth form Lifegate makes AWESOME salsa people! I think she is also good at salsa dancing....) so been seriously craving that every single day! I dont know why food because so important when you feel sick, it's so weird, because mostly I just don't want it. Other thing I want so bad is, HONEY NUT CHEERIOS, they do not exist here, and I feel like having them every morning.
So everyone cry for kathryn.... such a sad story right... not really.... when people are hungry, cold, dirty, addicted to substances, and dont know love. So please dont feel sorry for me. But you can feel compassion for the people I am about to write about, my story will never compare, because I have JEsus, and a family that loves me completely.
Now listen I have an idea, a great idea I think!
So around us there are alot of poor people as most of you know. And even though vinj and I are often very tight money wise, there are people far worse!
So we would like to start a "Not so EXTREME home makeover" not so extreme because we are not that "good-looking" carpenter guy from that show with piles of sponsors.... BUT homemaker over it would be in a way.
We want to help put simple roofing sheets on huts with grass that is molding and lets in rain, rats, snakes.... etc. We also would like to buy blackets for the family we choose each time, and possibly a bag of millie meal, and cooking pots if needed. Some people cook their little bit of nshima in the ground with no pot and a plastic bag.
Anyway, we are estimating each house make over at $250.00 -- each mud hut/house.... PLEASE let people know and give! Lets see peoples lives be inspired and just loved! For a very small amount of money, we will take and post pictures of each project we do.
Next week is our first house project for a widowed old lady, who sleeps on the floor, with a small thin blanket, is extremely thin, and her roof is only half there with very old roofing sheets that leak. Thank you PAm and Terry for the donation!
WHO IS NEXT!
Our next candidate... a widow with her grandson, who is actually 8 years old suffering with ceribal palsy. They would be another family due for a Hut Makeover!
Anyway, food is powerful isn't it. I watched Food Inc. Again today (because we have exactly 6 movie from canada on our lap top, and 7 episodes of The Office, all of which I have watched MULTIPLE times!) so, I have been wanting good fresh corn chips with home made salsa (alicia Hoffarth form Lifegate makes AWESOME salsa people! I think she is also good at salsa dancing....) so been seriously craving that every single day! I dont know why food because so important when you feel sick, it's so weird, because mostly I just don't want it. Other thing I want so bad is, HONEY NUT CHEERIOS, they do not exist here, and I feel like having them every morning.
So everyone cry for kathryn.... such a sad story right... not really.... when people are hungry, cold, dirty, addicted to substances, and dont know love. So please dont feel sorry for me. But you can feel compassion for the people I am about to write about, my story will never compare, because I have JEsus, and a family that loves me completely.
Now listen I have an idea, a great idea I think!
So around us there are alot of poor people as most of you know. And even though vinj and I are often very tight money wise, there are people far worse!
So we would like to start a "Not so EXTREME home makeover" not so extreme because we are not that "good-looking" carpenter guy from that show with piles of sponsors.... BUT homemaker over it would be in a way.
We want to help put simple roofing sheets on huts with grass that is molding and lets in rain, rats, snakes.... etc. We also would like to buy blackets for the family we choose each time, and possibly a bag of millie meal, and cooking pots if needed. Some people cook their little bit of nshima in the ground with no pot and a plastic bag.
Anyway, we are estimating each house make over at $250.00 -- each mud hut/house.... PLEASE let people know and give! Lets see peoples lives be inspired and just loved! For a very small amount of money, we will take and post pictures of each project we do.
Next week is our first house project for a widowed old lady, who sleeps on the floor, with a small thin blanket, is extremely thin, and her roof is only half there with very old roofing sheets that leak. Thank you PAm and Terry for the donation!
WHO IS NEXT!
Our next candidate... a widow with her grandson, who is actually 8 years old suffering with ceribal palsy. They would be another family due for a Hut Makeover!
Friday, January 14, 2011
So many things to write about!
I wish my brain had an auto blog, ya know, I would have two blogs a day, with 5 photos ya know! So I will list things I wish I would have wrote about....
Taliahs and Seths love for snails, they love finding them and yelling about it, seth picks them up and gathers them in a big family on our porch, I dont like this as much because they poo... and it's gross.
When I was in hospital the nurse poked my IV into my vein and then guess what OUT OF MY VEIN... and the water processed to pump into my arm un-benounced to me, asleep... I woke up with a HUGE ARM and hand, looked like an old fat ladys arm (sorry to all those old fat ladys out there, you know your beautiful!) This nurse didnt like me because for some reason I had an opinion about what meds I was given and how I was treated... HOW DARE I! in PRIVATE HIGH COST health care.... bad me! Ps- thank you to my grams and gramps hutch for paying for our hospital bill!
People in Zambia are really poor. Period. So sad, weird, and overwelming. Just to say.
(Remember all of these are blog posts all on their own)
After leaving the hospital we went to a place called Sandys creation with the kids got there at 12:30 in the afternoon, as soon as we got into the room I filled the bath with... wait for it folks HOT WATER... FROM THE TAP. And no joking here, you know that I actually sat and wondered... this is what I thought extactly to my self... "does Canada have running water when you turn the tap on?......... thinking..... thinking..... remembering.... and YES they do, it does exsists." you know the feeling of hot water available to wash your hands every time you finish in the bathroom. SO DANG NICE! OK!
SO after the bath..... I turned on the shower.... and found out the hot water had run out : ( oh POOP! so I waited an hour... and tunred it on again.... and had a 20 minute hot shower... OH THE GLORY people! was reeally ministering to my spirit, seriously. There was a pool, that was a little to cold, you know when ur just a little uncomfortable in it... anyway, the kids LOVED it! Thankfully we found cheap floaty things in for the kids!
The bed was AMAZING! King size, everything white, clean, puffy, clean, cozy, warm, beautiful, and we sat and watched world news... that is when we found out Australia is having horrible floods, and the same moment to scolded our selves for not reading up on BBC that week. Anyway, it was nice to be updated on the world.... Oh one of the TOP STORIES was: Eagles being hunted in MIssion BC! WOW! Canada was on the map because of one more our great first nations people wanting to kill a almost extinct bird... but also our great tree huggers, who don't want them too! woohoo, GO CANADA GO! The food was great, besides the cheese burger that came without the burger... very interesting... finally they believed us that infact a cheese burger is a beef patty WITH cheese. SO we got that sorted.
Was a great 24 hours off! Our only regret for that time is we really wanted to spend the day with tobi and chuma, we were going to meet there but it just didnt work out. Turns out that would have been the last day we would have had with Chuma, at 23 years old she died VERY suddenly in hospital. Most likely from Menegitis (dont knwo the strain) She was admitted for Malaria, and the very morning she died she phoned tobi to laugh about how the hospital was like a hotel room (they are on a scheme so it was "free") she had a menu for food, a tv with satelight... etc. So Tobi shoned us to sya the hospital is great and chuma is feeling much better, she should be out by the evening at the latest. So we thought we better check it out, and bring her some drinks for rehydration and things. So on our way, we got a call she was in bad condition, at that point we really tried to speed and were confused. Then we got a call she was dead, I literally did not believe it. So I phoned the dad to talk to the doctor and look for menegitis, because that was my first thought, malaria is often what they diagnos menegitis pations with at first, but this one killed her in just an hour. Such a shock for all of us. I went in to see her and was overwelmbed with shock I couldnt believe it, non of us could.
The Zambian funeral definately gets its own post... wow.
Thats all for now.
Also just like to say, I hate red ants... and would like it if someone could give me the reason why they exsist.
Thank you.
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