Sunday, May 25, 2014

40/40 Lusaka Highlights

For part of April and May, 40/40 took place.  We had a great time as you can see from all these pictures.  These pics. in this blog post are of our time in Lusaka.  Since Easter fell during 40/40 this time we decorated eggs, made cookies, and had an Easter egg hunt.





 One of our field trips was to the elephant orphanage.  The baby elephants were so cute!



 The participants as they walked off campus to do their daily field assignments.

 While parents were out the kids did their school work and had lots of fun!



 We had great kitchen staff who made great food for us each day!  
You can tell Mexican food was on the menu for this particular day!


 One day the kids and staff enjoyed eating pizza and watching the movie Frozen while their parents were out.

 We took the kids to a local market to practice their bargaining skills.

 At the cultural village


 A visit to a Zambian's home was a highlight for the kids.

 They tasted some Zambian food.

 Picture with  the Phiri family

 They were taught some games.




 They had fun playing with some of the children on campus.




 riding in the van

 We also took the kids to the crocodile farm.

 holding a python

 holding a brown house snake

 small crocodiles

 a huge leopard tortoise


 bigger crocs.


 swim time


and girl fun!

Sunday, April 13, 2014

A Visit to a Local Orphanage

 Recently, we had a volunteer team from our home church in NC come and work out in the bush.  Their last two days they were in Lusaka so we visited a local orphanage.  
Above: The orphanage is building a school building so that the kids will not have to do school in their homes.

 feeding the fish in the Talapia farm

 Michael explaining about the talapia farm

 David and Lindsey on the see saw.

 four of the houses where the kids stay

 The vol. team did a short program with the kids.  They taught the kids some songs.


 the kids taught us some songs

 Then Caroline told the story of the Good Samaritan and then they acted it out.  It was so fun to watch them act out.

 A group of ladies at our church made these hats for all the children.  It was a blessing to hand these out to the kids.





 They all had smiles on their faces!


 A group picture

 We also played games with the kids.  The team brought lots of water balloons.



 They played duck, duck, goose.

 Tug of War

 Red Rover and several other games


It was such a fun day.