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In March, I shared with you the exciting news that My Father’s House #12 was complete and Mama Martha and children were together as a family. I can report to you the family is doing very well and Mama Martha is so excited to be raising her eight “new” children. Just last week I asked Mama Martha what her son (her only biological child) thinks about her now raising eight children. She laughed and said “He thinks it is strange”… but he also loves and supports his mother as she is now sharing her life and love for these children through the ministry of Every Orphan’s Hope. Mama Martha had shared with me previously that she always wanted a larger family… and now her dream has become reality!
We prayed for expansion of our business-as-mission project, Chicks-4-Orphans, and look what has happened… we recently completed the first cycle of birds in chicken run #1, but even more exciting is that we just started construction of chicken run #2. We anticipate the project will be completed by late June or early July. I asked some of the younger children in My Father’s House if they knew how many chickens we will be able to grow in the two houses and they responded, “100… 200… 300…” I kept saying “higher, higher, higher”… and finally I had to tell them, 9,000! There were like “wow!” While it was hard for them to imagine such a large number, nothing is too big for God to imagine, right!
We also prayed for a reputable and consistent buyer for our chickens. We are thankful that a contract has been secured and we now have a guaranteed market for our birds.
Last Wednesday, I accompanied three of our Zambian staff members to a small compound in the bush to meet three children and bring them to My Father’s House in Chongwe. This village could easily have been thousands of miles away, and could have existed 2,000 years ago… quite remote, no running water, no electricity, no indoor plumbing… a very stark contrast to the way we live our lives every day! But one could not miss the energy that existed among the 10+ kids living in the compound. One small boy (Boni) of maybe 3 or 4 years had a fun, radiant personality… talking, laughing, climbing into the vehicle, sitting on my lap… so outgoing! (By the time I left my clothes were as dirty as his!) Two of the children we brought into My Father’s House were living with their aging grandmother. Their father had passed on and their mother abandoned them to work in Lusaka. I can’t wait to see what God does in their lives through the ministry of Every Orphan’s Hope.
How can you get involved with EOH?
- We always desire prayers for our children, mamas and staff in Zambia
- Sponsor a child for $27 per month
- Consider joining a mission team
- Send a child to Camp Hope
- Intern with EOH for a Summer in Zambia
Opportunities to pray and thank God…
- Pray for two upcoming bible camps (camp hope) in August. We are expecting to host up to 300 orphans from the local community at each camp. Pray that our staff and missionaries are sensitive to the needs of each child, and most of all that the love and hope of Christ will be shared clearly and received openly.
- Please continue to pray for my ongoing support development as I serve Every Orphan’s hope in Zambia and the U.S.
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.” – Matthew 22:37-39