July 2010

From The Kitchen Table

~ The Desk of Lynne Schaefer ~

July 2010

“So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the Glory of God.”

1 Corinthians 10:31

Dear Family and Friends

They Came, They Played, And They Painted!

For nearly two weeks we hosted an amazing team from Hilton Baptist. Five amazing people filled our home with laughter and joy as they sanded and painted our rather dilapidated house. It was hard work, and there were some rather funny paint “incidents”. They ran a 5 day Bible club at the Luse Orphanage; the children were so blessed to have them. Our children had so much fun accompanying them to the orphanage and playing with the team in our yard. These were 5 very gifted people, with hearts that serve the Lord in all that they do.

 

The Early Birds Show the Soccer

The World Cup did not go by unnoticed in Mbala. Grant and our missionary friend Steve teamed up and decided to show the soccer World Cup evening games on 2 big screens for the local Zambian folks. Few people have TV’s and would miss the games. Zambians love soccer so they decided to show every evening game in the location area where most folks live. The only down-side being, that both Grant and Steve are very early nighters and get up very early to run together  and get other chores done. But, they did it and survived a month of late nights and it was very much appreciated by the locals. They used the 15 minute half time as an outreach, where various people preached a short message or gave their testimony. On average there were about 300 -500 people watching and hearing the testimonies.

The Lodge...

A couple days after the team left, we got a desperate phone call from our friend Rone who runs the Lodge on Lake Tanganyika. She had to rush to South Africa with her husband, Sean, as her mother was very, very sick. Sean also needed some urgent medical attention. They asked if we would be able to run the lodge while they are away. It is a very busy time at the lodge with many guests. The children and I are busy running things for her while Grant continues with ministry in Mbala. We brought all our school books and are enjoying a different perspective to our usual Mbala life.

Praise God For:

· The work done by the team from Hilton Baptist, and for their safe travel

· For the Bible messages and prayer given by the team at the orphanage

· For the World Cup Soccer outreach

· For his protection daily

Please Pray for:

· The Bible school grant is running this week on the college land

· For our continued protection as a family

· For the Lord to continue to provide for the Luse Orphanage

Grant is blogging his daily life as a missionary – A Missionary Diary at the web address: grantschaefer.blogspot.com.

See more great pictures at grantandlynneschaefer.blogspot.com

Thanks for your encouragement, your prayers and support of our ministry here.

God bless.

Lynne Schaefer and Family

Grant, Joel, Hope, Charley, Olivia, Luke

PO Box, 420032, Mbala, Zambia

 

 

From The Kitchen Table May

From The Kitchen Table

~ The Desk of Lynne Schaefer ~

May 2010

“Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.” Matthew 5:41      

Dear Family and Friends

Twazwane

A couple of weeks ago I was able to deliver a load of goods to the Luse Orphanage from the community of Mbala through the Twazwane project. We have initiated the project to try and involve the community in the orphanages. Too often they are supported by well meaning folks overseas, but too often those well meaning folks withdraw their support leaving vulnerable, hungry children who have been dependent on their support. This is exactly what has happened to Luse Orphanage. Now the orphanage has no food or means to support the children. Through Twazwane, business men and individuals can give to the orphanage knowing that what they give is definitely going to the children. It is Zambian tradition that the community look after children in their community. That everyone is responsible for the children not just the parents. It is on this tradition that we feel the community is also responsible for the orphans, not just well meaning foreigners.

Snake Skinning Boys

We got home from a really great lunch at our missionary friends the Schwarz’s house, only to find the man who looks after our cows had killed a huge Puff Adder just by our pig sty. We had two extra boys, Tobias and Matthew who are both very good friends of Joel. Tobias had just got his first pocket knife ever for his Birthday. The boys were all very interested in the snake, but I was rather upset about it. The kids are often out by the pig sty and this was a huge, dangerous snake. I recalled a friend who grew up on the mission field telling us one day how his mother made him and his brother get to know snakes well, because they were always out catching them etc. She made them read a lot about them, and get to know the different kinds. I thought what a better way for these 3 boys to get some snake experience than to skin it and see its fangs, insides and so on. I gave them the challenge and in a short while they had the snaked skinned with their pocket knives, researched how to cure the skin, and had it curing in a jar!

Flat Out!

A really strange looking mosquito bit me at a friend’s place out by her gate one afternoon. Exactly 10 days later I came down with a really bad dose of malaria, and was literally knocked flat by it. I shivered and shook for a few days and when I was feeling better I went outside and tripped and sprained my ankle. We thought it was broken from the loud cracking sound it made. But, we thankfully discovered it was not after having to drive 160km to the nearest working x-ray machine.

The Team

A team of 5 will be coming this month from the Hilton Baptist Church in Natal, South Africa. They will be going to the Luse Orphanage to play games and do various activities, and to encourage the staff there. They are also giving us a tremendous gift – they will be painting the inside of our house! They are bringing the paint and supplies. Our house is in a serious need of a paint – with the ceiling paint falling off, the mud walls showing through etc. Please pray for them as they prepare for the trip up, they will be driving.

We also praise God for a donation from a church in SA for us to be able to purchase ministry materials, to be able to finish fixing the boat, and to be able to build a small guest house here to accommodate all our visitors.

Missionary Diary:   Grant has started a blog diary. He will be recording the events of his days and his ministry, you can check it out at: grantschaefer.blogspot.com

Praise God For:

· The donations for the guesthouse, boat and materials

· For my recovery

· For the team that is coming

· For His protection daily

Please Pray for:

· The Team to travel safely

· For our continued protection as a family

· For the Twazwane project to really take off and the community to take full responsibility of the orphanages

Thanks for your encouragement, your prayers and support of our ministry here.

God bless.

Lynne Schaefer and Family

Grant, Joel, Hope, Charley, Olivia, Luke

PO Box, 420032, Mbala, Zambia

From The Kitchen Table March 2010

From The Kitchen Table

~ The Desk of Lynne Schaefer ~

March 2010

 

Living the Dream!

As a child all I wanted to be was a wife and a mother.  I knew that someday I would live on the mission field. Not a grand thing really. Not a Scientist or Doctor, or a professor of this or that.  Nope, just a wife and mom, with a house full of kids.  A nightmare to some, but a dream to me!

 

We just got back from a long hard trip down to South Africa. We broke down on the way down in the desert in Namibia.  Our good friends convoying with us had to tow us for 300km. It took us the whole day. We then left our car in Namibia and took the bus to Cape Town where we continued with our deputation trip around South Africa.  We were so blessed and encouraged at the different churches we visited.  We then spent a long time in Cape Town trying to get our vehicle back in shape. And after some weeks we headed back up here to Mbala.

Seven days on the road in the heat of Namibia with the kids trying to keep busy in the car. With a sucker sweet stuck to the shoulder of my shirt. A huge heat headache and a piece of sandwich stuck to my shoe, I remind myself that, actually, I am just living my dream! It certainly is not an easy road, but “I took the road less travelled by.” We have had our hills and valleys, thunderstorms and sunshine.  After 8 days on the road we arrived home to no electricity, but missionary friends had left bread and biscuits in the kitchen for us and welcome home notes and signs were everywhere. It’s good to be back, and with God’s help I will continue to live the dream!

 

This trip we brought a young man back with us.  His name is Robert Martin and he is here with us for 5 weeks and will be making a DVD for us of our ministry here.  He is a very talented young man, but his health has not been good the past few years, please pray for him.

 

Praise God For:

·         Our vehicle that is running well again

·         For a safe trip

·         For his provision while in South Africa

·         For the encouragement and support from our supporting churches

 

Please pray for:

·         Us as a family as we adjust to being back in Mbala and get ready to start ministry and school again next week.

·         For our vehicle to continue to run well

·         For Robert’s health and for him as he helps us here for the next month

 

Thanks for your encouragement, your prayers and support of our ministry here.

 

 God bless.

Lynne Schaefer and Family

Grant, Joel, Hope, Charley, Olivia, Luke

PO Box, 420032, Mbala, Zambia

Blog spot: grantandlynneschaefer.blogspot.com

From The Kitchen Table November 2009

From The Kitchen Table

~ The Desk of Lynne Schaefer ~

November 2009

“Ask and you will receive and your joy will be complete.”

John 16:24

Dear Family and Friends

Something...was ... Stolen...from me!

Have you ever felt like something is missing, but you don’t quite know what it is. You know it is gone, you can feel it! I have known that feeling for some months now. It became my friend, reminding me each new day that I have been robbed of something. It took me a while to discover what it was. And then it dawned on me, it was my joy - and it was completely gone! The past year has been so stressful, so painful, and so terrible that I stopped enjoying our children. Stopped appreciating what I have and the wonderful place where we live. I took my eyes off the Lord during a flood of difficulties and felt myself drowning under the strain. Where I usually loved life and looked forwards to each new day – I felt myself getting annoyed and irritated at the smallest of things. A friend advised me to get some time-out, basically to have a break – and get some good time in with the Lord. That is not easy as a full time mom, living where we do, not having anywhere to go to get some much needed time alone. Our home is a very busy place with loads of visitors and activities continually happening in a constant stream. Then God provided us with a solution, a place where our family could go and recover from a difficult year. Our children needed their happy mom back; Grant needed his cheerful wife to surface out of the storm. We needed time as a family, to just laugh, play and enjoy each other. Eleven years on the mission field with many ups and downs, many hardships and stresses, we needed a time-out! Not to do deputation, not to speak at churches, not to do ministry or fix the car or do admin etc. Just some time to recover.

God has given us this time. A friend, who runs a lodge here on Lake Tanganyika in Zambia, asked us if we wanted to babysit the Lodge for her while she goes on leave. There are no guests here, no bookings for November. Our mission board agreed and we have had the time of rest that has been so needed. While we still do school with the kids, we have a cook to do all the cooking, a cleaner who refuses to let us clean up, she even complains if we make the beds. God is wonderful. He has provided for us in a way we never dreamed of. We can relax, spend time with Him and enjoy our children and each other. What a special time – we are not taking it for Granted.

A Time to Live... A Time to die

Towards the end of September, we got news that my dad was very sick and in hospital, and that we should come to Cape Town if we wanted to see him again. He was diagnosed with Asbestos Disease and was getting worse daily. We raced down to Cape Town hoping to see him, only to discover that he had died two days before we arrived while we were still on the road. It was a record 5 day drive down – but still not fast enough. It was heartbreaking to discover that we did not make it to see him one last time. It was thrilling, however, to hear that my mom lead him to Christ 10 minutes before he died. She had no idea he was going to die that day.

While in Cape Town, Grant was able to redo the engine on our vehicle. It was in bad need of an overhaul and the long 5 day drive to Cape Town put the engine on its last legs. Praise the Lord for a practical husband, who saves us so much money with his practical abilities. By redoing the engine himself, he saved so much money. God provided a wonderful workshop through a farmer in Grabouw, who also financially helped with the costs of engineering work that needed doing on the engine.

We lose our Life Jackets

Part of Grants ministry is teaching in a village right next to the Lodge we are staying in. The people asked him to come teach there. We are still trying to get the boat going again after discovering a problem with the gear box. We have a bag of life jackets we use when on the boat as the lake can be rough at times and because Grant has a strict policy of all on the water must wear life jackets. Unfortunately, the bag fell off the roof on a trip to the lake and we lost them all. We did not know they were missing till we got to the dock. As soon as we discovered it we decided to drive back up the mountain to see if we could find them, but I had locked the keys in the car!! It took 40 minutes to break into our car, and by that time the bag was gone. So, if you know anyone with any life jackets that they don’t use please let us know. We lost eight of them. At the moment our friend here at the lodge fetches us in their boat and we just pay the fuel costs for Grant’s once a month trip across to the village to teach.

Thanks for your encouragement, your prayers and support of our  ministry here. We pray God’s blessing on you as we get to the end of the year and look forward to a new year ahead. Please continue to pray for us for:

Prayer Needs:

· New Life jackets

· For the spares needed on the boat

· For God’s strength for us as a family

· For renewed joy in the Lord

· For Lorna at Bible College

· School books for next year

Praise the Lord for:

· My Dad’s salvation

· For a time of rest

· That our vehicle is going well again

· His faithfulness to us during a difficult year

God bless.

Lynne Schaefer and Family

Grant, Joel, Hope, Charley, Olivia, Luke

PO Box, 420032, Mbala, Zambia

From The Kitchen Table.

From The Kitchen Table
~ The Desk of Lynne Schaefer ~
August/September

“God’s call to a task includes His strength to complete it.”

Dear Family and Friends

I am sometimes overwhelmed by the amount of tasks we have to get done in a day. The above quote is really what gives me strength to continue in our work here for the Lord. He has called us here and knowing that gives us the strength to continue in what he has called us to do – that is what keeps us going.

We have had a month full of wonderful visitors. John and Nikki Bowmer from Cape Town came and spent the month of August with us. John’s days were full of ministry while Nikki spent her days washing dishes, doing pre-school with Olivia, helping the girls with their music and making bread etc. She was a huge help to me and great fellowship. Although I am sure our noisy family was a huge adjustment for her. We are so grateful they made the effort to come visit us.

(Note the snake Joel is holding in the picture on the left- don’t worry - it was dead – it was killed on the college land near the kitchen)

At the moment, we have Greg Phillips here from Cape Town. He will be the guest speaker at our college graduation on Saturday and will also be preaching at our local Baptist Church. We are really privileged to have him here with us.

New Friends – Great Fellowship!

A new Southern Baptist Missionary family has also moved into Mbala. They are a truly wonderful family and it is so great for our children to have new friends. The Schwarz’s have four children, three boys and a girl. The bonds of friendship have already been tied. Steve and Rita are wonderful fellowship for both Grant and I. They have come with many talents that we do not have, and we can already see that they are going to do a great work here in Mbala.

Steve, Rita and kids joined us at the Baptist Convention Conference. It is held out in the bush where they set up a temporary camp and have days full of fellowship and meetings. John and Grant preached at the conference, while we all went out just for the Sunday service. We all sat on a grass mat and ate the food that they had prepared for us for lunch. It was a long day for the kids as we only ate around 3pm – but a good time was had by all.

It is great seeing our lives through the eyes of others. We often find ourselves with a live pig or chicken in our car. We no longer find the roads bad or are disturbed by things that happen around us. We are so used to the way of life here now. So when others come and laugh at things we do or have to go through it is always funny to take a fresh view of our lives here.

Dog Bites, Raw Ankles and a Stuck Calf

I was so blessed to have Nikki here when we had some medical emergencies to deal with. Our neighbour’s little boy got his ankle stuck in a bicycle’s spokes which left it with a large, raw gash. It was bleeding heavily and as usual we were called upon to help. Thankfully Nikki is unfazed by such things and helped me to deal with it. While Joseph was being nursed, our dog bit a young lady, Ruth, who is helping me by “plucking” our broiler chickens that we grew and are selling for the college fund. She got bitten right on her shin and did not want to go to the hospital, so she got in the cue for doctoring! Nikki took the little boy down to our hospital and got to spend some time there as they helped fix him up. Both Joseph and Ruth are doing fine.

Our prize cow, Lucy, went into Labour and did not seem to get anywhere. The calf’s hoofs stuck out for hours and she never got any further. We soon realised that we had a challenge on our hands. Steve Schwartz has quite a bit of vet training so he came out and delivered the calf. He had to get his whole arm inside the cow to turn the calf’s head into the correct position. Grant helped “catch” the calf as she came out. We praise the Lord for Steve’s talents and for bringing such a humble, gentle man of God to work for Him right here in Mbala. Both cow and calf are doing well. We named the calf “Miracle”. If not for Steve’s expertise we might have lost both mom and baby!

The Kids

The kids are all doing great. While most in Zambia are on School Holidays, we are still doing school. They are always busy with lots of activities. The girls have made an “outside” kitchen behind the pagoda in my garden. They cook and clean and play there for hours. Luke also enjoys it out there, playing in the mud with all their bottles and stuff! He is definitely going to be an over-stimulated kid with all the attention he gets from his siblings. He is usually in the thick of things and is chuffed to now be able to sit by himself on the bench at the kitchen table and eat his food with the “big kids”!

While Dad’s Away...

While Grant went down to Lusaka to take John and Nikki back to the airport and fetch Greg – it all began to happen here! It always does when Grant is not around. I got very sick and had 7 kids to look after as I also had another missionary family’s boy here for the weekend and Friday! Fortunately, our kids took over and cooked and did the necessary and basically had a free reign of the house!! (Scary actually) Joel, who had just sharpened his penknife, had to cut something he was making and the knife slipped and he slit his wrist in the process. He came in my room with it all cleaned and bandaged up. I told him to show me the wound so he unravelled the bandage and I saw a gaping wound that needed stitches. I was so grateful that he had not cut a main vein! We closed it with “Aunty Di’s” supply of stitch plaster (I did have the super glue close by...) and it has healed well.

Later that evening, Hope also had an accident and managed to get a wood board fling up and smack her in the face (like as “punch” as Joel put it!) She ran into my room screaming; with blood pouring out everywhere! Well, just another day in the Schaefer house while dad was away...

Praise God For:
· John and Nikki Bowmer and the work they were able to do while up here
· For the various conferences and Bible school Grant and John were able to teach at this past month
· For God’s continuous provision
· For protecting Joel from what could have be a very bad accident
· For the Schwarz family

Please Pray for:
· Grant as we prepare for another graduation of students on the 5th of September.
· For Greg Phillips from Cape Town who is with us and will travel to Zimbabwe from here to do further teaching
· For the protection of our children and ourselves from disease etc.
· For the Swartz family as they adjust to life here in Mbala (they are from America)

Thanks for your encouragement, your prayers and support of our ministry here.

God bless.

Lynne Schaefer and Family
Grant, Joel, Hope, Charley, Olivia, Luke
PO Box, 420032, Mbala, Zambia

From The Kitchen Table.

From The Kitchen Table
~ The Desk of Lynne Schaefer ~
June/July 2009

“The closer you are to God, the more you will have a heart for people.”

Dear Family and Friends

Although the past 12 months have been a fantastic year of ministry, one of the busiest and best we have had, it has also been a very stressful time for us. We have had a lot of added emotional stress and pressure, which has left us both drained and quite stressed out. I can tell that it has affected our relationship with our children and we both felt that we need to stick our heads out up above the water! For me, it is hard not having time-out as a mother where I can just sit and catch my breath for a time. So, I headed down to Cape Town with my Austrian Friend Uli and little Luke, to have a little time out. We were there only 6 days, but it was a break that I really needed and it gave me time to reflect on life a bit and have a change of pace.

Grant took the kids camping and was also able to have a lot of fun with the kids and have a much needed time-out from life!

One great thing that has happened this month is that the terrible road to our house has been graded by the road works company that is re-doing the Mbala/Kasama road. They asked us if they could store some of their diesel tanks on our farm and would grade the road for us. We now have a wonderful road to our house!
Lorna, who has been down in Cape Town for the past 3 and half months will not be coming back to Mbala. She has decided to go study at Bible College for one year. So, we are looking for someone who would be interested in starting the resource centre and possibly helping us with the kids Math.

More “Charley” Stories

For those of you who enjoyed the Charley and the chicken giblet story, here is another one for you. She was outside helping to milk our very feisty cow “Mother Lucy”. But she was pulling a little too hard on the cow’s teat so the cow got very cross and kicked her. She landed slap bang in the middle of cow poop and mud. She was covered with it. She started to shout and tell the cow that she was a “very naughty cow” and then ran off to the nearest tap, washed the mud and poop off and headed straight back for the milking stall and carried on milking. Charley is one of those little girls that’s always making us laugh and she truly is a real character! That same cow once chased me around our yard. I had to dive into a flower bed to hide and get away from her. The only time I will go near her is if there is a fence between us. She is not a “real” milking cow that is placid and will just stand quietly waiting to be milked. She is a feisty mama, but she does give us a lot of creamy milk!

Schaefer Coffee…

Grant loves his one cup of good “real” coffee per day. We have got quite a few coffee trees that we have planted here on our little farm. One of the trees is a magnificent tree. It is just by our front door and is producing a very nice crop this year. Grant recons that the lavender growing next to the tree has protected it from disease etc. The kids and my jobs are to pick the ripe cherries and take the process up until roasting. Then Grant roasts the beans himself just the way he likes it. It is quite fun to pick the cherries and squeeze out the raw bean. I hardly drink coffee anymore, so we are making plans to crow some tea. A friend of ours has organized us some tea bushes from Malawi, so now I plan to make my own green tea.

Always “Hope” for the best

For some time now Hope has wanted her own little space. Sharing a room with two little sisters, one of whom is a real junk collector, can be a challenge for her. She has been asking for a long time if we could make her an “attic in their room where she could have her bed and her things. Part of her school language lessons one day was to write a story of how she would like to redecorate her room. I told her to just pretend that she had her own room and then write about how she would like it to look. After she finished, she ended the story with “dream on Hope”! So we decided to make her a loft like she has always dreamed of having. We get off cuts of wood here for real cheap, so we have finally been able to give her a little space of her own. It has also made the girls room have a lot more space with only 2 beds being on the “ground level” instead of three!

Hope has been doing great in Grant’s Wednesday evening Bible classes. In a recent test she beat Joel and Friday by getting 100% for the test! The boys are now out to try and beat her or get 100% on their next test!

Praise the Lord for:
· Our new road
· Bringing Grant back safely
· For all the ministry opportunities Grant has
· For the time I was able to have in Cape Town


Please Pray for:
· Strength for Grant to continue with the on-going ministry
· For wisdom and strength to deal with some personal issues and stresses
· For the various Bible School weeks that are coming up
· For patience and wisdom in home-schooling

Thanks for your encouragement, your prayers and support of our ministry here.

God bless.

Lynne Schaefer and Family
Grant, Joel, Hope, Charley, Olivia, Luke (and Friday)
PO Box, 420032, Mbala, Zambia

From The Kitchen Table.

From The Kitchen Table
~ The Desk of Lynne Schaefer ~
May 2009

“But now, O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay
And thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.” Is 64:8

Dear Family and Friends

Math, Chicken Giblets and Beans

Life with Children truly means there is never a dull moment. It is harvest time here in Zambia. The rains have ended and it is now the time for the tiring, yet very rewarding, harvest. Grant has been busy all week training rural pastors and leaders, while the kids have been shelling beans! Math was not done until late in the afternoon, when Grant had time to teach each one their lessons. Charley was outside in the thick of things. Shelling beans and getting real dirty while she was at it. Grant called her in for math, but on her way through the kitchen she discovered a pot of “Chicken Giblets” freshly cooked on the stove. What a treat! She grabbed a chicken foot, a chicken heart and a piece of liver, and headed down the passage for math. Grant nearly roared with laughter as she sat down and neatly placed her “treats” next to her on the table. She then pulled out of her pocket a handful of beans – to help her with her math!

Snakes Alive!

Grant, Joel and Friday (Joel’s best friend and our “Sixth Child”) went to Chisanza village to teach and show the Jesus Film. You have to go by boat to get there. Grant had been teaching for a while and decided that they would have a little break before carrying on. The villages started to sing a song and as they began a snake came right up out of the ground right where he and his interpreter were standing. It was quite a large snake, but sticking its head out was the biggest mistake of its life. In a matter of seconds the villagers chopped it in half, one half went back down the hole! Then, when they were eating in one of the small village huts, Joel looked up and saw another snake slithering through a small hole in the wall. It wove its way in and out through various holes in the mud bricks. There were hundreds of people who came and watched the “Jesus Film” and many were reported to be saved that weekend. Chisanza is a village where witchcraft is heavily practiced. So we praise the Lord for the work he is starting to do there.

Luse Community Orphanage and the Mbala for Mbala Project.

Now that we have been on the mission field for over 10 years, we have observed how often people come to start a project and then some years later they abandon it. Most missions started in the past have not been able to be self sufficient or run by the locals when the missionary leaves, hence, all the mission station ruins that scatter Africa. One such abandoned project is an orphanage here in Mbala that was started by a well meaning foreigner. Only now a few years later, the funds have dried up! Who suffers in the end – the orphans! So, after giving it loads of thought, I came up with a plan to start the “Mbala for Mbala” project. This will involve the local business men, churches and people of Mbala to look after the Luse Community Orphanage. I have approached some of the prominent business men asking if they would be willing to give something every month to the orphanage. They suggested that we get together and hold a meeting and discuss the project. We plan to do this when Grant gets back from a trip to Lusaka in a few weeks time.

The ladies group in our local church went to visit the orphanage last Tuesday. They all took what food they were able to spare. On my way there I stopped and asked a few shops if they would be willing to give something. I was given Maize Meal, sugar and cooking oil. It was a very encouraging start. There are, however, many obstacles that we will need to cross in order to get such a project up and running effectively. But, our prayer is that the community will embrace the orphanage and start to look after the orphans without outside support from the West.
Yummy, Yum!
Just in case there are some of you out there that feel sorry for us living up here – DON’T! Guess what we ate the other day. Fresh (Organic) strawberries from our garden, waffles and whipped cream with Hope’s home- made maple syrup! Yum! Eat your heart out - or come visit us!

Praise the Lord for:
· The showing of the Jesus film in Chisanza village and also Kawama village
· Those that accepted Christ on those occasions
· His protection from snakes and those things we do not see
· The discipleship course Grant is holding this week on the college land

Please Pray for:
· Grant as he travels to Lusaka next week
· For the Mbala for Mbala project
· For the Luse Community Orphanage and its orphans
· That God will guide us as we try to find a solution for the orphanage
· For our protection each day as we serve him here

Thanks for your encouragement, your prayers and support of our ministry here.

God bless.
Lynne Schaefer and Family
Grant, Joel, Hope, Charley, Olivia, Luke (and Friday)
PO Box, 420032, Mbala, Zambia