I met Sampson and Maria at Maramba Old People’s Home this week. I spent one morning getting to know them and learning how to make rope from a rice sack, to be sold to a fishmonger (fisherman) later in the month. Sampson and Maria are married. Sampson speaks many languages including Tonga and English. Sampson earned a living as a fisherman for most of his life. As his eyesight began to fail he wasn’t able to earn enough to support himself and Maria and they moved to the home. Sampson and Maria work together now to make fishing rope from rice sacks that will be used by fisherman...

   For those of us that are going back to our normal lives after our time abroad.. what’s next? Having been in Zambia for only a month I find that I dread going back to a typical life of work, church, and maybe the local youth group. I want to live above and beyond like we have since training camp. Some of you may have everything figured out after this; finishing college, serving in church, going on the World Race or YWAM, and so on. You will have many other challenges where mapped out goals can really help, but I believe that the line “Take me deeper than my...

I am the minority. My hands don’t look like theirs. I stand out walking down the street. People look at me differently, and treat me as such. I have expectations put on me because of my skin color. People assume things based off of how I look. But I am not made a felon, I’m made a celebrity. I am cheered on while walking down the streets, “mzungu, mzungu!” I am not looked at with disgust, I am not treated like a servant, people do not assume that I am poor or of less money. I do not fear my life as a mzungu (white person). And so while I am the minority in Africa, I...

Has been living at Maramba Old People’s Home since 1997. Psine met and married his wife at the home. Both Psine and his wife are legally blind but they tend to their daily chores around the home. ?Psine is standing in his garden, even though his eyes are riddled with cataracts, he toils in his garden daily. He knows where he plants each crop and he tends them. Once they are ready for harvesting, he will sell his crops and begin reworking the soil. 

Sophia became a Christ follower when she was in her 20s. She loves to read the Word each day even though the print is small and her eyesight is failing. This morning we studying the Bible together, Sophia would first read in Tonga and then I would read in English. What a wonderful time of encouragement studying the Word together!

Has been living at Maramba Old People’s Home since 1997. Psine met and married his wife at the home. Both Psine and his wife are legally blind but they tend to their daily chores around the home. ?Psine is standing in his garden, even though his eyes are riddled with cataracts, he toils in his garden daily. He knows where he plants each crop and he tends them. Once they are ready for harvesting, he will sell his crops and begin reworking the soil.