Update from Adam

This blog post is coming to you from Beth and Adam Hunt. We are joining the STS team for these two weeks as part of HIVHope. We are also the only married couple on the team and have been blessed with the "royal suite" in Dr. T's house, which happens to be a room with two single beds pushed together with a big gap in between the mattresses. We live in Fishers, IN and this is our second time in Africa. It has been an incredible week in Zambia; we have all truly been thrown into the fire together which has developed relationships that are going to last for many years. We feel especially blessed because these friendships are an outcome that we had not prepared for, nor expected. The two teams are one, and we are becoming in tune with each other's spirit.

Today, the Pamodzi Girls' School had another activity, and some of the team needed rest, so we did not visit with them. It was the final day of the Agape Church Plant School seminar, and all of the attendees presented their creative ideas for teaching others. We enjoyed watching several dramas which displayed things like: how to counsel a person who has discovered that they are HIV positive, how to encourage married couples when one is positive and one is negative, etc. Several others sang songs in Bemba, which were beautiful to listen to. I think everyone in attendance was blessed by what they saw and heard. To close, Duane explained that the students could leave and be like the Dead Sea, or like the Sea of Galilee. The Galilee has an outlet, and therefore the water that flows in, flows out the other side. The Dead Sea has no outlet, and therefore it takes in water which becomes still and cannot support life. We should be like the Sea of Galilee. This knowledge and training about HIV education and motivation should not be taken in and held, but it should flow out to others to give life and hope. The students were then presented with their HIVHope "graduation" certificates and they all agreed that they needed to begin sharing their new knowledge with the community right away.

The evening consisted of a few movies, some worship, prayer, and card games. Tomorrow begins our first weekend, and it is filled with several exciting things which you will hear about later.

Thank you for your prayers. God is moving here in ways that are big and new to me, and it is a privilege to be part of it.

Adam Hunt