Christmas Outreach in Garden Compound


The kids were shaking out their ears to hear better in case
there was water or mud in their ears.
As a followup from our last blog that highlighted the ministry of ACTION Zambia colleague, teacher, trainer and preacher, Cosmos Tembo, I wanted to report on God's great faithfulness. When we arrived we came around the back of the building to the entrance of the church. They meet in a room that's about 8x10m . It seemed quiet but Abusa Cosmos said there were a lot of kids already waiting inside for us. I was on the side of the building when Tricia popped her head into the room and it sounded like a thousand joyful screaming voices starting at once. There were already at least 200 kids packed in there and another 60 or more on their way. We were able to do our craft before the rain started pouring down and somehow squeezed all the kids into various classrooms, (some as small as 3x3m) for games and big chicken lunch. Uncle Nelvin from Ciyanjano shared about the biggest Christmas gift - Jesus and the free gift of grace and salvation. We sang songs, slipped around in the mud, washed a couple hundred plates in the pouring rain and praised God for this church and the love it has for this community in Garden. Thank you for praying and continue to prayer for the children of Garden to hear the Good News about Jesus!
The Champs were lined up along a slippery hillside at the entrance waiting to introduce themselves.
Feeling a little nervous after hearing that huge roar of the crowd!


Kids working on their Christmas journals
This guy was getting serious with his chicken!!
Auntie Nkumbu and Uncle Jayson try to keep the kids organized
Uncle Jayson and Uncle Shawn
Some smiling faces
Hard at work on her craft...
Adding stickers to her journal - you can never have enough stickers!
Auntie Queen and Izukanji work with a huge group on their craft  

Warrior Team (of cuteness) 



 A little rain never bothered any kids!
smiling in the rain!
Mr Sticker Face
Girl with her craft
High fiving!


Uncle Peter rounds up the crew.

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Emilio Fernandez said…
Good morning, how are you?

My name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys travelling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.

I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of used stamps because trough them, you can see pictures about fauna, flora, monuments, landscapes etc. from all the countries. As every day is more and more difficult to get stamps, some years ago I started a new collection in order to get traditional letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately, it is impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are very small countries with very few population, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.

For all this, I would ask you one small favour:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Zambia? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Zambia in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and an original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:

Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Calle Valencia, 39
28902 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain

If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.

Finally, I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.

Yours Sincerely

Emilio Fernandez
December 31, 2017 at 7:25 AM
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