Make Shift Dental/Medical Clinic

During our annual conference - not only do we have a team from America that comes and feeds the people spiritually, but we have a team that comes to help with dental needs. For the last many years Dr. Elias has come and been a blessing to the Zambian people by extracting teeth and providing quality dental work that is unavailable or unaffordable to most Zambians. This year, Dr. Elias also assembled a medical team to come and help. This is a huge blessing - over the last three days, they have seen over 165 patients and we expect they will likely double this by the time they finish on Saturday.
Please pray for two specific children. One child is five years old - his name is Prince and is HIV positive. He had 5 teeth extracted. He was in a lot of pain. It was an emotional time in the clinic as the gravity of this little boy weighed on all of us. It feels great to help so many people - but to realize for many, this help is very temporary is stunning. The second child is an infant with a severe case of Malaria - the doctors were not able to break the high fever and are very concerned.

VBS, Final Day

Tuesday marked the end of the VBS - the Lord truly blessed as approximately 192 children received Christ as Saviour and many rededicated their lives. The group spent a lot of time discussing oursin nature and although the children initially did not understand, eventually the convicting of the Holy Spirit brought forth godly repentance. Praise the LORD!

VBS, Kafulafuta style

Vacation Bible School is in full swing - we are having a wonderful time as both American and Zambian are working together to present God's word! The team has presented the "big story" of the Bible - tonight will be the gospel presentation... please PRAY!

Wow!

There are just some times when the word "wow" describes it all. Saturday night we started our annual Vacation Bible School at Kafulafuta - in the morning, all the children gathered for morning instruction and to receive some things. At that point, I was told there were about 1,530 children. Since then, we have received many more and I would expect the number to be around 2,000. Like I said - "WOW!!"
The team from America is doing a great job as they partner with the Zambian Sunday School teachers to reach this next generation with the gospel. This group hit the ground running but has not missed a step! Please continue to pray - three lessons have been completed and Monday three more lesson are planned. The Monday night message is a presentation of the gospel in which we expect the Lord of the harvest to bring forth fruit that abounds!!

Moses Bible Baptist Church

I visited a new church on Sunday called Moses BBC. The pastor is a graduate from our Bible Institute and excited about the ministry. Pastor Fordson's church actually started on time - no small feat here in Zambia. The people were full of excitement, singing with their hearts, and listening as the word of God was preached. The spirit of the church was excited and one that truly seemed to want to know God - it was very refreshing. I preached a message on faith from James 2 - a few people came forward.
After some time, we all sat down and I looked out and saw a young man with a real look of pain on his face. The formalities of church were just finishing up - I asked my interpreter if after we were all done he would go and try to encourage and help this young man. After about 30 minutes, my interpreter came back and said, 'he got saved!!". Guess that explained his look of pain. Praise the LORD for this little church. They are growing and people are coming to the knowledge of the truth!