Visiting Friends

This weekend we went to visit our friends Daniel and Grace Kim who live in Kitwe. Their two sons, who are both in college, are friends of our boys. We had a great time visiting with them and seeing one area of their work. On Sat. we went to a new work area for them. The church had just started in late November. As we gathered together about 9 adults came to learn how to share their faith by using the Roman Road. Daniel taught this lesson and then Grace(below) demonstrated it. The class practiced it all together and then we went out in groups to share Christ with others. There were many decisions/committments to follow Christ that day.

This is our group coming back. You can see that with Hannah being with us we attracted a big group of kids that followed us around.

On Sunday, we went back to this church and had SS and a worship service. Daniel taught SS and Kevin preached.

After church we hung around and visited with the members. They were so excited because there were so many who came to visit the church that day. On Sat. we had 9 but on Sunday we had about 40. At the end of the service I experienced something that I have never seen before in Zambia. As they were announcing how many people were there and the offering amount that was given a young boy about 10 years old went up to the front and handed his offering to the man. He had come in late. Then all the others who had come in after the offering was collected also brought their money to the man to add to the main offering. Tears ran down my face as I saw God use this young boy. It was just like in the story Kevin had shared. Kevin preached on Jesus feeding the 5000 and how He took what that young boy had of 5 loaves of bread and two fish, blessed it, and then used it to feed all those people. I think most often when people come in late they just miss out on giving, maybe even a little relieved that they don't have to give on that day. It really blessed my heart to experience this in Zambia for the first time. I'm praying that these people will continue to give of their time and money and grow in their walks with the Lord.

There were lots of children.

Several women prepared a meal for us. Here Daniel is washing his hands before we eat.

We had nshima, chicken, rape, and beans. YUM!

Hannah had a good time as well even though she didn't have any kids to play with. She loved playing with the Kims dog.

It was exciting to see Hannah go out with us witnessing and handing out tracts.