just wanted to share a few picks and where we are.
today we (all 9 of us 3 interns, 4 staff and us) are heading off for a few days to visit other orphan homes and maybe see a game park!

Life here is exciting, messy, frustrating, it is causing us to see things in new and different ways, it is pushing us to ask questions and find search God’s heart on things that seemed unimportant before. But over all, here we are.

We have been here over a month now, and time seems to be flying by. The orphan home is beginning to lay its foundations on the property that God has given. We are taking steps, slowly but in the right direction, to seeing the whole project licensed and supported by Zambian Social Welfare. This includes having a school, and clinic someday. The ground work we are doing will God willing incorporate the entire vision so we will have freedom to build and start them as God leads us with out going through this struggle again.
We are learning what it means to be social workers (although we are not technically that) in a developing nation where we face corruption and an entirely different protocol than anything we have been exposed to. Yet here all our work seems to matter so much more. The need and the exhaustive desperation in the people speaks to the fact that God’s heart if for them, for the weak, the small, the oppressed and forgotten.
We are heading to an orphan village ministry tomorrow, to learn from them, listen to God, and dream and brainstorm with all of us here about what God is leading us into in the next stages of the Children’s (orphan) Home He is building.