Senior Boys' Camp & Other Camps

The Long weekend - is the traditional time to hold our Senior Boys' Camp - here is just one shot from that weekend. A great weekend - thank you for praying. Please continue to pray for those who trusted the Lord. Two boys there who said they were Muslims but on the last day one of them declared that he had now decided "to follow Jesus".

Bruce Mukwatu was the speaker and gave very challenging messages. A few days after the camp he came thru to us here in Kabompo and spoke on two consecutive evenings to a packed hall. Bruce had also been one of the speakers at the Marriage Conference and although I was still in Lusaka at that time, awaiting the transport back to Kabompo - I am still hearing comments about that conference and the effect it is having in some lives. It was good to have Bruce and his wife Alice, stay with us - it is many years now since they had their wedding reception in our back yard and spent the first night of their married life, in our caravan! Currently they are both in Angola for outreach there and after returning to Zambia, Alice will, Lord willing, be speaking at our Senior Girls' Camp.

This is monday morning - our Junior Girls' Camp begins on Thursday afternoon and we are thankful that Daisy Hanna of Loloma Mission, has agreed to lead the main sessions there. I have been hurrying to try and finish all the printing before our Electricity company's diesel runs out - what a relief to learn that the diesel has arrived and to actually be able to have our electricity come on at 06.00 hours . Praise the Lord for His grace and mercy.

Some years ago we had a little granddaughter born during our Junior Girls' Camp - on another year - a young Zambian widow, who was like a daughter to us and was living with us - came thru to camp and that weekend, decided to give birth to her little daughter - so I spent quite a bit of that weekend with her. This weekend however, promises to be the other end of the spectrum. Our little lamb, Elysha, will shortly be going home, it appears, and so most probably, the weekend of Junior Girls' Camp, this year, will be the time of her funeral. The picture above is one I took in hospital at the time when I had made the short trip back, expecting to attend her funeral - still so beautiful but unresponsive. It has been a long road, especially for Richard and Katherine, but we are so thankful for the wonderful support they have had from friends and family - especially the family of God. We are thankful that we had opportunity to know her and o enjoy her beautiful smile - and that I, Elva, had opportunity to spend that little time with them and so appreciate some of what they have been going thru over these past weeks.

Wonderful to know that she will soon be "safe in the arms of Jesus" - but we know that for Richard and Katherine, their arms will be empty. We continue to pray for them as they look forward to the arrival of another little one in December D.V.