Team Zambia – This Soccer Team Has Heart
Recently a team of 5th and 6th grade girls really touched our hearts. As part of Church’s soccer league the church decided to name the teams after countries this year. This group was dubbed Team Zambia and coach Ken Clower decided to contact us, make us official members of their team and put together an 8 week devotional in order to
plant seeds in the heart of his girls for missions. Via a weekly coach's challenge he also encouraged the girls to pray for us, the orphanage, and to do whatever they could to raise money for the project. The girls really took this to heart and through making cookies, yard sales and many other projects they blessed and humbled us in a huge way by raising more than $1000 for the orphanage here. They showed their hard work and dedication on the field and off and made the season more than just about winning. Thank you team Zambia for showing us how anyone can make a difference. May the world have more world changers like you.
Issac Health Scare
15 months old Isaac has had a chronic cough for many 
months now. Recently a doctor friend of ours diagnosed him with Asthma and he seemed to be responding well to two different inhalers however he gave us a big scare a few weeks ago when he suffered from a severe Asthma attack. He was wheezing, struggling to breathe, and Pulse Ox levels read 76 when they normally hospitalize children if it goes below 90. Being so far from medical help we were obviously concerned. Thankfully we had a nebulizer here but after several treatments and only some improvement we decided to take to the clinic in Zimba (3 hours away) where they were able to monitor him for a few days and get him back on the right track again. Thank you God for your hand of healing on this little boy’s life. Prayers for continued wisdom, resources for medicine, and protection from future severe attacks would be greatly appreciated.
Prayers for Security and Provision
A couple weeks ago we were very discouraged to discover that about 8 bags of clothing had been stolen from one of our storage sheds near our house. These bags were filled with clothing for our babies and children at the orphanage as well as orphans in the community. We suspect that it happened in the middle of the night while it was raining, probably on more than one night and most likely by someone who knew what was there. What is really sad is that they were filled with much needed clothing (we had yet to distribute the new baby clothing for this season) and some of the stuff that was taken will be very hard to replace (like preemie and tiny baby clothing which is basically impossible to get here in Zambia) We are now going to be electrifying our fence at night for added security. Please pray that even though more precautions are being taking, nothing else gets stolen and that God will provide all that is needed to care for those that He has placed under our care.
Schooling Concerns
The government recently made changes to the education system no longer allowing grades eight and up in village schools. While we knew this school year was coming to an end we thought that all our our kids would be able to be schooled one more year here. 
However in just a months time we will have to find a way to get Enest, Pillowhead, and Pamela a place to stay and enrolled in a school in Kalomo. While this is difficult to do any time, it is especially a challenge this year as the infrastructure in town is not set up to handle the influx of children from the villages on such short notice. Please pray that God will make a way for us to find suitable housing, supervision, and enrollment into a school by mid January. A possibility of a house seems to be opening up (along with a possible house mother) but please pray that God will work all the details out and show us His will for these special children.
Volunteers
Lastly we have been receiving a decently amount of inquiries of people possibly wanting to volunteer with us. Please pray that God will give us and them wisdom to discern His leading, provision 
to follow through, hearts open to God’s leading, and that He would begin to knit our hearts together as one. We are so thankful for the help that God has already provided here but the harvest is plentiful and the laborers are few. Please pray for continued strength, health, love, unity, joy and laughter between us all so that others can see God’s light and love through us.
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