Karen Baumberger, July 20 2012
Well it is hard to believe that months of planning and anticipation have all come to this day now! In 6 hours we will be on a plane for 18 hours heading to Amsterdam and then directly to Lusaka. We are all so excited to meet our partners from the Jubilee Center and from International Justice Mission as well as the most wonderful people of Zambia! I have so many vivid memories from trips past and am working to prepare my heart for this adventure. What a great feeling it will be to see our friends again and to make new friends. It is quite remarkable to see how God is using these organizations to make a positive difference in Lusaka.
This trip was intentionally designed as Inter-generational where we will partner amongst ourselves with our children and we will pair up with a parent and child in Zambia. What an honor it is to share the experience of God's love and work in Zambia with my daughter! We will begin our journey with church on Sunday to share in worship. Zambian church is quite an experience; beautiful voices singing, LOUD prayers, dancing, and quite passionate sermons! I can't wait to hear of our groups experience.
Monday we will pair up with Zambian parents and children where we will explore our family and community values as well as our hopes and dreams for the future. The next day we will separate and pair up with the same parent and child from the workshop where we will live a 'day in the life' in the George community of Lusaka. We will most likely do chores, go to the market, cook and share with each other.
There are so many life changing experiences ahead of us; feeding programs for children, assisting in the schools, praying over victims of HIV/AIDS, witnessing extreme poverty, meeting land rights victims and child-headed households, learning from each other, playing with children at an orphanage and within the communities, being a part of amazing joy, playing soccer games (too bad I never learned soccer skills from my brother!), dancing, singing, (this is always quite interesting given how horribly I dance and sing....:>)), cooking, and just sharing life together. I pray that God will lead us and transform us so we can do the work he wants us to do both in Zambia and at home.
Well it is hard to believe that months of planning and anticipation have all come to this day now! In 6 hours we will be on a plane for 18 hours heading to Amsterdam and then directly to Lusaka. We are all so excited to meet our partners from the Jubilee Center and from International Justice Mission as well as the most wonderful people of Zambia! I have so many vivid memories from trips past and am working to prepare my heart for this adventure. What a great feeling it will be to see our friends again and to make new friends. It is quite remarkable to see how God is using these organizations to make a positive difference in Lusaka.
This trip was intentionally designed as Inter-generational where we will partner amongst ourselves with our children and we will pair up with a parent and child in Zambia. What an honor it is to share the experience of God's love and work in Zambia with my daughter! We will begin our journey with church on Sunday to share in worship. Zambian church is quite an experience; beautiful voices singing, LOUD prayers, dancing, and quite passionate sermons! I can't wait to hear of our groups experience.
Monday we will pair up with Zambian parents and children where we will explore our family and community values as well as our hopes and dreams for the future. The next day we will separate and pair up with the same parent and child from the workshop where we will live a 'day in the life' in the George community of Lusaka. We will most likely do chores, go to the market, cook and share with each other.
There are so many life changing experiences ahead of us; feeding programs for children, assisting in the schools, praying over victims of HIV/AIDS, witnessing extreme poverty, meeting land rights victims and child-headed households, learning from each other, playing with children at an orphanage and within the communities, being a part of amazing joy, playing soccer games (too bad I never learned soccer skills from my brother!), dancing, singing, (this is always quite interesting given how horribly I dance and sing....:>)), cooking, and just sharing life together. I pray that God will lead us and transform us so we can do the work he wants us to do both in Zambia and at home.
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