28 weeks!!!

I Love Africa

You know you live in Africa when three guys show up at you door carrying a large burlap sack with something big and alive inside. My first guess was what I was really hoping for...........a snake. Unfortunately we had to settle for a five foot long water monitor lizard......still very cool. The guys brought him to me because I have been wanting to eat the meat for a while (it is considered a delicacy in Western Zambia).......much to the lizard's approval we let him go.......one of the many reason we love living in Africa.....

It has been an amazing year and we know the best is yet to come. Thanks so much for your continued prayers and support....more to come....



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Hope your holidays were as crazy fun as ours!!!

Merry Christmas from Zambia!!

Picking weeds after a big rain! The kids maize at 5/6 weeks!

Chichi and Tazi love riding the ponies! What a fun family day!

Fun on boxing day at the Turf Club

Tazi riding snowflake!

Lego time w Dad

Our newest edition!

Our Christmas puppy...yellow lab!

Fun in the sun on Christmas

Sporting our new suits and dolls!

Seeing is Believing!

This man next to Macie is Benson! He is an old man who has been blind for many many years! He heard there are white people in the next village who like to pray for the sick! So he walked 30 min to see us!

What's cool is that this week we were reading as a family a book where many miracles took place! When we read about a blind man being healed as the man put dirt on his eyes, I told the kids, " I think God's gonna give us the opportunity to do this just like in the Bible!" Little did I know it would be only a few days later!

The Holy Spirit immediately reminded me of this when I met Benson at the gate and so I ran to get the girls. My eyes filled with tears in anticipation!

Together we prayed for him after putting mud on his eyes! When we cleaned the mud off he immediately turned toward the sun and said "I can see the sun!" He went on to tell us, with a big smile on his face, that he hasn't see shadows let alone bright light in many years, just darkness! He was thanking God over and over! We gave him hugs and told him to come visit again and that we believe God will continue to heal him even as he walks home! We are humbled and thankful for the many visitors that God sends and how it stretches our faith in many ways! We had to share this story with you all!

Potential

Have you ever stopped to think about the meaning of the word "potential".

I don't usually use this blog as a platform to share my thoughts but felt an urgency to do so today. These past few weeks have been consumed with the activities involved in preparing for the "planting season" here in the Southern Hemisphere. It was during the planting of one field that i suddenly realized the "potential" the seed-filled bucket I was carrying contained. Sure it is just seed, but with some encouragement and the proper inputs it has the capability to become the very thing it was created to be. And when that seed's potential is coupled with that of hundreds of other seeds.........I am sure you get the picture.

Habakuk 2:14....

For as the waters fill the sea, the earth will be filled with an awareness of the glory of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 3:18....

So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and "reflect" the glory of the Lord. And the Lord - who is the Spirit - makes us more and more like Him as we are changed into His glorious image. (emphasis mine)

Here in Chikankata we are believing for the inheritance of a nation -- the Tonga peoples of both Zambia and Zimbabwe. We want to be able to see and steward the responsibility of allowing God to use our presence in revealing the fullness of their "potential" as His children.

What about you.....can you see the "potential" in the things and the people the Father has surrounded you with. Jesus did.....His life exuded an atmosphere that caused those around Him to become aware of the potential the Father had placed in each of them. As we "imitate Paul who imitates Christ", the question becomes do our lives accomplish the same.

Take a moment to pause and think about the potential God has laid before us in 2013....thnx again for partnering with us in seeing "Southern Africa filled with an awareness of the glory of the Lord"...more to come.....