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Hi Friends,
It has been a while since I sat down and thought about what to write. This last month has been characterized by a lot of experimenting, thinking and praying on my part as to my role here over the next eighteen months. Suddenly feeling completely overwhelmed by the magnitude of my potential job I have decided a lot of God searching needs to be done to see how I can better focus my attentions. In other words I can’t cope working thirteen hour days six days a week. I don’t think running around like a headless rooster is worthwhile to me or the people I am trying to help and I have come to a crossroads. Now that I have spent time learning and experiencing what God is doing here. Where exactly does he want me to fit?? I have really been blessed to have Kevin and Helen Honore and Rob Purdue come for a visit and make some time to sit down with me and really talk over what is going on and be able to pick their brains and utilize their vast experience.

I have been really enjoying Thursday Health classes with some of the Action Employee’s. These last couple of weeks we have been talking about family planning- what responsibilities they have, what God says and how their culture affects their decisions. Not being married was a good excuse to pull in other members of the team to help with discussions.
I am using these classes to help develop and practice a basic health curriculum.

Mercy (a Zambian missionary with Action) and I have begun a Bible study with some of the girls living on the street. This last we talked about concepts of God and what they thought God was like. It’s interesting that none of the girls really doubt God is there but they all seem to think of him as a creator and appeared to never have thought of him as anything else. Please pray for us as we attempt to make God a very real father to these girls.

I am looking forward to my first holiday in the last two weeks of July. I am going to Samfya and Ndola with Kevin, Helen, Jared and Ruth Honore and Jude Goatley. Let me tell you I am extremely excited to be with some NZer’s again. Just hear the accent and be completely understood again. How refreshing.