Zambia GoTeam Ready to Travel

Thank you, Lake Grove, for the beautiful commissioning this past Sunday in worship.

This Zambia GoTeam, our largest to date, will be enroute for over 30 hours before landing Thursday, exhausted, in Zambia's capital, Lusaka, over 10,000 miles away (as the birds fly). They may be the best prepared group we have sent, having spent over 12 hours of corporate prep time together in 6 meetings as well as many hours individually.

Lutangu Lubasi, the Sinazongwe manager who visited LGPC in March, has organized a wonderful program for the team, and they are as ready as we could make them!

• They are ready to engage and encourage World Vision staff in Lusaka and in Sinazongwe.
• They will visit AIDS patients in a Catholic AIDS home in Lusaka, and in villagers' homes in Sinazongwe.
• They will touch base with the staff of International Justice Mission in Lusaka (including Pamela Mumbi, who visited LGPC in April) and with the traditional judge in Sinazongwe, Chief Sinazongwe himself.
• They'll hold and hug children, listen to the stories of men and women, and visit about 3 dozen sponsor children.
• They'll inspect progress on development projects, and try to understand the burgeoning micro-loan system that is strengthening the economy in Sinazongwe.
• They'll see borehole wells many of you helped fund, and the sites of some wells yet to be funded.
• They'll visit the Makonkoto School, which Lake Grove had a major part in funding, and encourage students and teachers there.
• Finally, they will participate in the celebration of our 5-year partnership with Siabaswi Village, which comes to a close at the end of the summer. They will sing, they may dance, and they will represent you as they proclaim the love of Jesus Christ in word and deed.
• Again they will participate in an interdenominational worship service, where the sermon will be shared by American and Zambian pastors.
• Along the way they will see everything from geckos and monkeys to crocodiles and elephants and other wild animals. At the end of the trip they will drift on the Zambezi River and marvel at Victoria Falls.

We carry you with us in our hearts, and you are a part of the trip, by way of your prayer and financial support. Please watch this blog for updates. And watch for a report in church when we return... first in worship, on July 15, and then a comprehensive report in September.

Reaching out  in Jesus' name, on behalf of the Lake Grove family,

Pastor Graig.