Friday

Hello Kelowna!  It is balmy and nice here.  But before you get too envious, it is also pouring rain and we have intermitant power.  (Which is why we haven't been able to blog for a few days.)  There was a huge power outage last weekend which effected Zambia (the whole country), Zimbabwe and Congo.  Could you imagine our whole country being out of power?  Since then, we've been out of power on and off (mostly off), so we've been utilizing our camping skills, cooking over charcoal fires, boiling water for coffee, drying our clothes inside on clotheslines, eating and showering by candlelight (cold showers of course) etc.  It is all part of the adventure!
 
This past week has been great.  We did some more work at Grace Academy and on Wednesday we took 7 of the kids to Ndola Game Park.  It was a lot of fun to get to know these precious kids better.  We got to sleep in safari tents and there were monkeys right in the area where we were 'camping', very cool!
 
Tomorrow we leave Zambia and head for Egypt.  The past 2 weeks have gone so fast and we have experienced so much.  We are looking forward to sharing our experiences with you!
 
Thank you again for all your prayers.  We have really seen God at work here in this country.  We have also experienced His protection and safekeeping.  Please continue to pray for our team as we finish up our journey and process all God wants to teach us.  Also please pray for health, we have 2 members experiencing colds right now and flying with a cold can be very uncomfortable.
 
See you soon!
 
Roberta

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