In February Steve, Jeff and Jenna Friesen went on a “beyond the bush” trip in Zambia to fulfill some of the grant requirements for the Friesen’s who are living in Tanzania for a year. You can read about their adventure on their blog here: http://tanzaniafriesens.wordpress.com/ (See the Feb 16 entry.) Here's Jenna. I think she was a lot more tired by 5 a.m. when they finally quit driving.
That is just part of the story. The next day Steve and Jeff and the driver went on and found some beautiful falls. The people want to develop the area for tourism and will need electricity for that, but they didn’t seem interested in a hydroelectric option.
So, it was a very long trip without many results. They dropped the Friesen’s off at Victoria Falls, and went back to Mongu through Lusaka on the good roads rather than the sandy track - still another 15 hour drive.
While Steve was gone I helped a Korean missionary with a CHE (Community Health Evangelists) seminar that she organized. She did a great job of communicating with different churches and seminaries who sent people. I have never seen people more motivated to arrive on time (even early!) and participate faithfully every morning for three weeks. It was amazing! Here I am at the closing ceremonies where the facilitators were presented with a capulana, a mocume (two capulanas put together to make a bedspread) and everyone got headscarves. You can see that there were some fun people there. There were about 20 people but the larger group pictures didn't turn out well.
This seminar makes me hopeful for Mozambique and its people. The participants said that they are better prepared to go to the communities with good information about health, community development and ways to share the Good News. And they are the kind of people who will go out and do something about the needs they see.
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