Mission to Zambia 2009 report

A team of six members from Family Church joined a team from America and spent seventeen days working with Overland Missions in Zambia. Four of us had already been out the year before so we had some expectations for the trip, I know that I speak for the whole team when I say that all of our expectations were more than met.

We spent seven days in the Sikachapa Village speaking to the villagers about God’s love and doing life with them. We got to spend one of our days harvesting maize and groundnuts with local families, it was such a humbling experience and we all feel that we learnt more than we gave.

We saw so many healings and lives changed, our hearts were touched when in our first meeting almost everyone there responded to the message of Jesus. One of the greatest testimonies we saw was a young baby’s legs being healed during our whole time out there – we were able to stop his mother, Matilda, going to the witch doctor and asked her to give God 7 days. She was at every meeting and on the last day we saw a total healing of his legs and Matilda gave her life to God.

One of the greatest privileges was being able to free a lot of the people from confusion about salvation – so many believed that we were saved by reading certain books and living a good life – and to be able to tell them, for the first time, about God’s grace and how we are called to live in freedom from guilt and shame. At every evening meeting members of the team were given the opportunity to speak and give testimonies, it was incredible to see God work through every person that spoke, and fill and refresh them as they gave to the villagers.

The whole team have come back completely different people and I can see the complete difference God has made, after 2 weeks of standing on God’s Word alone we are not prepared to settle for anything that is not God’s best for us and everyone our lives encounter.