In the Bush

Laurie and her team spent their first night in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, then traveled on to Ndola, where Teen Missions has a permanent ministry base. They are now in their first bush location, Lufwanyama, and they traveled there by vehicle (not by foot!). Each time they approached a police roadblock, the team members began to sing songs in the local dialect, and at each road block the police smiled and waved the truck through!

At one point the battery tie down on the truck came loose and the batteries fell to the road and were destroyed. As the team waited on the side of the road for replacement batteries to be brought from Ndola, the kids again sang songs in the local dialect, and a group of people gathered to listen to them. The batteries finally arrived and were installed, and the team continued down the road only to happen on a serious road accident they might have been part of had the batteries not come loose.

Team members are sleeping well in their tents, thanks to warm blankets purchased in Ndola. Nighttime temperatures are in the mid-forties this time of year, with daytime highs in the seventies.

On Sunday the team worshiped with a local fellowship and had the opportunity to pray for a woman and her baby—the child was so weak he couldn’t hold up his head. What a privilege for these young people to be a part of village life in the bush. Pray that the hard things they see will translate into passionate prayer and zeal for kingdom renewal of all things!

—Lisa

(Laurie's Mom)