With the Jenke's safe arrival home on Tuesday afternoon, the whole Team is back on American soil. Although, I'm guessing all of us wouldn't mind still being with our new friends and loved ones in Zambia! We have so many incredible stories to share with all of you, and we hope to do so in a way that will accurately portray both the sadness and the hope that we experienced. In the coming days, each of the Team Members will likely post a blog "story" about something that touched them while on this… Continue

As we all continue to ponder and assimilate all that has occured in our lives as a result of our time together in Africa, review our journals and pray for the people we met, consider the following questions....


1. Looking at the trip as a whole, what are your stongest impressions?




2. In what ways have you seen God working in your life as a result of this trip?




3. What values or attitidues do you recognize as changing as a result of our trip?



4. What have you experienced that you mos… Continue

Thursday, Travel Day, and Friday and Saturday
Wednesday marked the end of our “official” duties in Zambia with the exception of a breakfast meeting we had with Bruce Wilkinson, the Director of RAPIDS, an umbrella organization of charities and relief organizations that operate in Africa to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDs. Bruce brought us up to date on the work the RAPIDS is doing, through a host of great organizations like CARE, World Vision and Catholic Relief Charities, and gave us a chance to v… Continue

We changed our last day’s schedule with our World Vision hosts to see more of the components of the Area Development Program that we were visiting. Kapalulwe is due east of Lusaka, about 40 KM or so. We had focused on Caregiver Kits and the angels that are the Caregivers themselves, on Sunday-Tuesday, but there is so much more to what WV does to fight poverty and AIDs besides the kits that we wanted to see examples of those efforts. But first, we got to meet and spend quality time with the child… Continue

Today we visited an ADP, Area Development Program, located in Kapululwe outside Lusaka. The area is semi-rural. ADPs are the result of World Vision coming along side rural communities and establishing firm relationships, identifying the needs/issues present, and creating programs to help them move to goals of independence. After a brief introduction at the ADP office, we split into three groups of six, traveling in large white land rovers over extremely rough, dirt, pot-hole filled roads! Howeve… Continue