Blog 2

In my last blog I talked about Moses, what a lad and only 11 yrs old – we learnt today that he had run away from the Fountain of Hope. Yesterday, he went to Lusaka Baptist Church with everyone from Fountain, he slipped out and brought some stikker, got as high as a kite so Vasco told him to have a shower and go to bed and he would see him in the morning. So knowing that he would be in trouble he ran back to the market. So today we went on a fam trip with Ruth and Jemma to the market with Vasco and found Moses in the bus station. Elijah (an ex street boy) who was with us managed to catch him, he was given the option of going back to the Fountain but couldn't come with us, he had to decide that it was what he wanted to do and to make his own way back and face up to his punishment. He was at the Fountain of Hope last year when Mission Directs teams were here, so we saw a lot of him. FOH found his mother and he had been re-homed with her, but she had been hiring him out to thieves who needed a small boy to go through little spaces to hand out goods to them.

Its been really good getting to know the staff team this year – as well as Geoff who was country manager last year we have Ian and Ruth, they have served as missionary's in many different countries, last 4 years in Pakistan, Ian is in charge of our building projects whilst Ruth will be taking over from me on the volunteer hospitality side, Jemma is the other member of the team, she was on team 1 last year and agreed to come back to help on the staff team this year. The last members of the team are Sue and John who are coming out to run the parallel team 3 with Emily from last year, Please do hold us all in your prayers as we learn to work with each other, to acknowledge our strengths and weaknesses and spend time seeking God's guidance in all we do. I almost forgot to tell you about the last member of our team Chika, our driver, he was with us last year – it is so wonderful to see his lovely smiling face and to know that we have in him a safe pair of hands.

Emmanuel is not part of the team this year as he has his poultry enterprise and school work, he is re-taking some of his exams to help him to get into college.

On Wednesday, we have a day off so Vasco is going to take me to see Stan, he is a lad I got really fond of last year. Jemma is coming with me, we have to get a bus to city market where Vasco will met us then we will be taking another bus up towards the copper belt to met his family. It will be really wonderful spending time with Vasco and catching up on all he is doing.