Zambia: Update from Jackie

Sorry I havn't been able to update you sooner, but it's been hard to get email access. I'm writing from the Cromer's computer, the family with whom I'm staying. So the flight over was very long and it took a long time for me to adjust to a changed sleeping pattern. We had an eight hour layover in Jo-Burg so we walked to a local hotel and spent a few hours talking to the guys behind the bar about Jesus and American politics while they made us sandwiches. We also met a man there named Godfrey who owns a club and he talked our heads off about American politics and then gave us his number so we could visit him on our way back.

We stayed in Lusaka a couple of days at the guest house. We arrived in Jembo on Friday and got settled in and Tyler traveled to Pemba the next day and got on a bus to Colomo. I've been here just getting to know the people and students and leading a disciple group. In my disciple group we've talked alot about the meaning of baptism, as well as what it means to be saved, and I've shared my testimony, as have they. Today I start math tutoring which is actually just me preparing a math lesson and teaching it to a class of 30-50 students, so I'm a little nervous if you guys want to pray for me.

As for the culture, its very...happy. I've noticed that while no one here has anything close to the possessions that most American's have, the people are much more content than most Americans and they do not recognize poverty as poverty, but as an accepted way of life. So when I first got here, my heart was broken for African's, but now that I've been here for a while, my heart is breaking for Americans who live with much, but without Jesus.