21 November 2012
Patrick & Sherry Coleman
Greetings from Luanshya!
There is no "Thanksgiving Holiday" in Zambia. Nevertheless, Sherry and I celebrate the day every year with a dinner with friends. This year we will be having the four Lighthouse residents and a young lady from Canada who was a Rotary Youth Exchange student a few years ago. She is back in Africa for a few weeks and will be helping Sherry in the kitchen in the morning before going with me to Mukolwe Village for the Bible study. Then we will go back home for dinner at six. We are thankful for the blessings and the challenges of the year - and also for the fact that I found a TURKEY in the store for tomorrows dinner! We are looking forward to enjoying our fellowship together with our extended family and friend.
Meanwhile, the work continues! Sherry will be teaching about the prophet Haggai in her youth class on Friday - The Prophet of Priorities. The students have completed their exams and the pressure is over... except for the waiting for results. Nancy, Dickson and Shadreck will be entering the Mobile Mission Maintenance Vocational Training Centre in January. The boys will be taking Construction Management and Nancy will be taking computer classes. We do not want them just sitting and waiting for the results so we are putting them into this school so they can learn a trade. Ultimately Nancy wants to go into teaching, Dickson wants to enter the Zambian military and Shadreck wants to be an engineer. The training they will receive at MMMVTC will help them all with their ultimate goals. Please pray for "our kids" as they transition from secondary school to vocational training college.
The meeting hall for the Mukolwe Chapel is at roof level. The church members have planted a garden on the acre of land next tot he building in order to raise funds for the roof. This is a village and most of the believers there live by bartering with each other - onions for potatoes, tomatoes for cabbage etc. They are planning to put a vegetable stall on the road and hope to sell vegetables to passers-by. You are too far away to support them by purchasing a package of okra or a few egg plants, but if you would like to help, we will make sure that every gift designated to Mukolwe Chapel goes into their building fund.
As we enter this season of the year, we are constantly reminded of your generous faithfulness in prayer and support. We deeply appreciate your partnership in the Lord's work in Zambia.
In His Service,
Patrick & Sherry
Patrick & Sherry Coleman
P O Box 90010
Luanshya,
Zambia
Off: 260 212 512359/512539
Res: 260 212 510033
Cell (P): 260 966 780113
Cell (S): 260 966 780112
