An Update...look how good we are at this!

HAPPY EASTER!

God is so good...in less than a month our team will be leaving for Zambia!
For all of you who so generously donated to our team funds, we were among the first of the ORU teams to reach the 100% fundraising deadline! That means that we've been able to focus more on preparing ourselves to go overseas and less on frantically trying to get funds in...which is, of course, a very good thing.

Next week we are looking forward to talking to Butch and Janet, our contacts, over Skype (God bless technology!). Butch and Janet have been working with AIDS orphans in Zambia for ten years, and we are so blessed to have the opportunity to learn from them. Needless to say, the whole team is pretty crazy excited. We'll be spending the next month compiling songs and skits and games to share with the children, as well as preparing sermons and messages to share with the churches we visit. Please pray for us, because a lot of this ministry stuff is somewhat intimidating for some of us (I won't mention names but it rhymes with mine). Nonetheless, God is faithful, and we've already had some terrific messages shared within the group during our weekly prayer meetings.

We'll be updating this more frequently as D-Day approaches. Please keep Zambia in your prayers!