Day 24: Power outage and packing for Chongwe

              Today is the final day before moving out to Chongwe for Camp Hope ad we are sitting at the office waiting for the power to come back on so we post our blogs. We have been withough power all morning. Another strange thing that is prone to happen in Lusaka.  Sometime tomorrow we will be moving out to Chongwe for the next 2-3 weeks, so as to be closer to the camps without having to travel back and forth each day. While we are there we will be staying in our assigned orphan homes, so we will be able to really bond with and get to know these children more. While we are out there we may only be able to come back to Lusaka once, maybe twice so we will not have internet access. Because of this my posts will be few and far between for the next few weeks. But bare with me as when I do post I will have much more content on the children and the organization.

                Here is a little preview of how the next few weeks are going to go for me. This upcoming Wednesday, Teen Mania arrives so we will be picking them up at the airport and taking them to our Chongwe orphan homes where they will be setting up camp for the next 3 weeks. On Friday, us interns will be training the TM team on the culture, food, camp, and responsibilities of us and them for Camp Hope.  A week from Monday, our first Camp Hope starts. This is a 5 day camp for 300+ local orphans that TM will be hosting. That same Thursday, a team of 33 short term missionaries arrive.  The following Monday after the first camp…( July 23), the short term team host their 5 day Camp Hope with the same amount of orphans as the first.

                 During all of this, us interns will be very busy with our new responsibilities. We will be running back and forth from each group of kids in the camps, fetching supplies, tending sick children, babysitting children that aren’t/can’t be in Camp Hope, and making sure things run smoothly for both camps. These next few weeks are going to be incredible as we serve God and His children during these camps and see first hand the power of God in the lives of these children. God is going to be glorified and praised more then He has all summer over the next few weeks. Please keep all the interns/staff members, TM/short term missionaries, house Mamas, volunteer cooks/translators, and orphans in your prayers over the next few weeks. God is doing to do some amazing things in all of our lives in the weeks to come!  To Him be all the  glory, honor, power, dominion and praise forever!

                                    “For the glory of God!”