Today was our last day of telling stories to the Lozi in their villages. We returned to Sefula and split into only two teams today. (This was partly due to the fact that one of our children and several members of our host family were sick and stayed back at the house. Please continue to pray for our health and strength.) Both teams went to visit members of the church who had gathered neighbors to hear our stories. One team finished before the other one, so we spent time visiting with the pastor's wife and two other ladies who had come to be translators. We sat in the little reed church and sang songs that one of the Lozi ladies had made up. She had put Scripture to music. So they shared their Lozi Bibles with us and taught us the tunes. They asked us not to forget the Lozi people when we returned to America, but to pray for them and sing their songs as we go around and sing in churches. What a precious time of fellowship we had with our family in Christ, the Lozi.

Tomorrow, if everyone is well enough, we are planning to drive 5 hours to Lukulu, where our host family, The Lowes, will be moving to minister in July. The men and older boys will be staying to work on the house for a couple of days, while the women and younger children will drive back the 5 hours to Mongu to be back before dark. It is very dangerous to be traveling on the roads here after dark. It is pitch black; there are no street lights! It will be a long day as we will be leaving at 6a.m., but we really want to see the place that will be there mission station. There has never been a Baptist missionary in Lukulu, but there is a Baptist church that was begun by a native who was trained by a missionary on the other side of Zambia several years ago. That is the goal - teaching these people to plant churches and minister to their own people.
On Thursday and Friday, we will be going into orphanages.