Our life has been a whirlwind of activity this week! The Northreach Medical Mission leaves tomorrow and the Merritt household has been busily preparing for that. Ellie Hamby and crew are getting things geared up for the Zambia Medical Mission in July. Sara started working at Eric's House orphanage with the toddlers and quickly fell in love with all of them. See her blog for some great pictures.
We did two outreaches this weekend. On Saturday afternoon Cindy Robinson, Sara, and I went with Rodgers and a group of college students to Kalweza. Cindy taught the women and the rest of us taught the children. It was a large group of 89 children of all ages. They were involved and enthusiastic, so we had a great time teaching them.
On Sunday we took a different group of college students and traveled to Kalenga, a two-hour trip that bumped and jolted us over some really bad roads. We had visited Kalenga in 2005 when the newly planted congregation had just begun meeting under a large shade tree. Today they filled their new church building with 139 people. After the church service the ladies served us the traditional Zambian meal of chicken, nshima, and greens. This was Sara's first experience with "village" chicken and eating with her hands, and she loved it.
I'll try to post pictures tomorrow.
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