Living on the edge…displaced people in the Acholi Quarters, Uganda
It’s already Monday morning…hard to believe we have only three days left. Difficult to sort through our thoughts as it’s all pretty intense but we wanted to share a little more with you as we have some time before we go to visit our students at the secondary school… So began the letter written in […]
Why We Serve…
Double N was born the other morning without too much indication that anything was wrong. I was called to the delivery not because there was any significant concern about the baby, but just to “be an extra pair of hands” at a time when we were short-staffed and the hospital was busy. I glanced somewhat […]
Anna’s Miracle
Anna, is a seventeen year old girl who enjoys food and sensory play. She has severe learning difficulties and is non-verbal, but she certainly knows how to make noise and enjoy life! However, this was not always the case. Anna was healthy at birth, but developed a fever, resulting in convulsions at 2 months old. […]
How Meals Open the Door to Eternal Hope
Across the Horn of Africa, famine looms — again. Just scan news headlines, and you will see that hunger haunts the region, hunting down entire communities throughout the Horn of Africa every few years. In one country in the area, more than 5 million people will soon require help to meet their nutritional needs to […]
One Man Changes A Village
Moses is a man who grew up, came to know Jesus, was trained by Operation Mobilization (OM) in his native Zambia and was then sent to Chitwe, a village on the great Lake Tanganyika that borders Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and Tanzania. Stretching 420 miles long and 31 wide, Lake Tanganyika is the […]
Why We Should go On Short-Term Mission Trips
For two decades as a leader in youth ministry, one of my goals has been to try and get every committed student to go on at least one mission trip before they graduate high school. There is some debate about whether short-term mission trips are effective for discipling students, but I am convinced that mission trips […]
Giving Back
Nelson Lungu Has been an under-the-radar part of ACTION Zambia (AZ) for many years. As a student he worked at Camp Ciyanjano during his school breaks, earning money for his and his cousin’s schooling. With Camp Ciyanjano’s encouragement, Nelson excelled in his studies and faithfully participated in his local church while becoming the first in […]
21 Seconds Can Change a Life
A child dies from a water-related illness every 21 seconds. A startling statistic, yet these are someone’s children. Someone’s grandchildren. Every day moms and dads in places like Africa face a terrible dilemma — giving their children drinking water that is contaminated. They have no choice. Water is needed to survive. Yet the only water […]