Hi, folks!
Please allow me to tell you a little bit about what our team did on Wednesday. Unfortunately, Georgina/George stayed home all day with the Sea Monster. I think that the rest did him well, though, because he is up and in full swing today! The rest of us (Dan, Megan and myself) did not need to go to our high school in Kitwe (Mindolo High) because it was a teacher planning day. So, instead, we prayed about it and decided to spend the afternoon in Murundu just hanging out with the students and orphans. It was definitely the right decision....
God started working as soon as we stepped foot on the rickety minibus that was our public transportation. A young man sat across from us (a.k.a. on top of us!) and started up a conversation with us. Dan had been reading his Bible, and the guy (named Mark) started asking questions about our t-shirt motto "Be the change". The Holy Spirit stepped in and the conversation quickly turned spiritual. Dan forged ahead (in Dr. T. style!) and eventually led Mark in a prayer of salvation/rededication!!!! It was awesome to witness. Mark asked if we happened to have a Bible (although it was neat - he didn't ask for Dan's), and Dan rummaged around in his bag and found a Gideon New Testament that he had haphazardly thrown in there. God is so COOL!!!!
Our afternoon in Murundu was really fun. Dan rounded up a rather large baseball game that lasted around 3 hours, while Megan and I sat conversing with the girls. Sports are a universal language and it was great to again see the children running and laughing and getting along! For Megan and me, it was really neat to be able to successfully leap the communication barrier and share quality time with the girls. We answered and asked questions about our different cultures and then began to sing. Some of the orphan children remembered "Deep and Wide" (which we had taught the VBS kids the previous week) and they started to sing it to us! We had three high school girls with phenomenal voices (Naomi, Jacquelyn, Cynthia) who led out in some beautiful Gospel tunes - it was absolutely gorgeous!!! I am so glad that we received the opportunity to just relax and continue building relationships with the students and orphans of Murundu!
I've got to run now to teach at the pastor's college (please pray!), but I am thankful I got the chance to share about our day. God is awesome and it is so much fun for us to see His hand at work every single day. Lives are being changed because of your prayers, so please keep lifting us up. We are now feeling the "homestretch"... just a few more days until we all leave Zambia. For me, there is so much to do and so little time left. Please pray for peace and that we accomplish only that which is God's will. He will take care of the rest!
Have a great day!
Elizabeth
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