Zambia Update
By Delbert & Sandy Groves | September 13, 2010
Here’s a few more New Life Center updates on
what YOUR partnership has been doing in the last
month or two in Zambia...
We’re building a new “bunk house” at the New Life Center. We are hoping to have it finished by Nov. This new facility will have at least thirty bunk-beds allowing 60 people to sleep (like the other bunk house), with toilets and showers. With this new facility NLC will have comfortable housing for 150 people. We often have over three hundred..if you can imagine that. Your guess where they all sleep is as good as ours. It’s our hope to build more to house 300 in the future.
The New Life Center is a very busy place...
We’re also building another “Sister Church” at a place called KAWAMA. It’s our goal and deepest hope to build two of these wonderful churches each year. This sister church is being built with the help of Heritage UMC out of Clearwater Florida. A two person work team (Marsha & Jean) came from Heritage to help with the church building.
Also (among other things to say the least), they helped with a “Kids Bible Camp”. There were at least 200 kids from five different United Methodist Churches at the New Life Center for the three day camp. Marsha & Jean brought wonderful supplies from their Heritage church to help with Bible Stories and Crafts....wow! It was really exciting for the kids who attended. Everyone had a great life changing time. If you want to know more about their time you can contact Dr. Marsha Mullett at: marsham@heritageumc.com.
The New Life Press is staying very busy!!! I was able to finally print all the needed church forms and documents and distribute them at Annual Conference in June. This has been one of my desires (Delbert) since our time in Zaire/DR Congo. At the moment we’re printing mostly curriculum and training materials for the “Let’s Speak & Read & Write English” program AND Community Health Education/Evangelism “CHE” program. These are two more wonderful ministries out of NLC. Having the New Life Press running properly has been my personal goal for years. Having been so involved with all the other outreach ministries (Developing & Managing NLC, PETs Zambia, Sister Church construction, Crusades and Church development, Farming, Etc.) it has been very difficult to focus on New Life Press running at it’s full optional. It’s a joy to see all the NLC staff take over those other responsibilities and do such an outstanding job! I can now focus on evangelism and printed materials. These are my two first loves!!
They both have the same acronyms for my personal philology...
PTL & PTL
(Preach it- Teach it- Live it & Print it- Teach it- Leave it)
in their hands to help themselves and others do the same.
Please keep the PET Zambia ministry in prayer. As mentioned the other day, we need help at this time.
Serving Christ together one day at a time...
Faithfully,
Delbert & Sandy
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United Methodist New Life Center
P.O.Box 20219 • Kitwe, Zambia
Groves@NewLifeZambia.com
http://www.NewLifeZambia.com
New Life Center Advance Special: #15057A
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what YOUR partnership has been doing in the last
month or two in Zambia...
We’re building a new “bunk house” at the New Life Center. We are hoping to have it finished by Nov. This new facility will have at least thirty bunk-beds allowing 60 people to sleep (like the other bunk house), with toilets and showers. With this new facility NLC will have comfortable housing for 150 people. We often have over three hundred..if you can imagine that. Your guess where they all sleep is as good as ours. It’s our hope to build more to house 300 in the future.
The New Life Center is a very busy place...
We’re also building another “Sister Church” at a place called KAWAMA. It’s our goal and deepest hope to build two of these wonderful churches each year. This sister church is being built with the help of Heritage UMC out of Clearwater Florida. A two person work team (Marsha & Jean) came from Heritage to help with the church building.
Also (among other things to say the least), they helped with a “Kids Bible Camp”. There were at least 200 kids from five different United Methodist Churches at the New Life Center for the three day camp. Marsha & Jean brought wonderful supplies from their Heritage church to help with Bible Stories and Crafts....wow! It was really exciting for the kids who attended. Everyone had a great life changing time. If you want to know more about their time you can contact Dr. Marsha Mullett at: marsham@heritageumc.com.
The New Life Press is staying very busy!!! I was able to finally print all the needed church forms and documents and distribute them at Annual Conference in June. This has been one of my desires (Delbert) since our time in Zaire/DR Congo. At the moment we’re printing mostly curriculum and training materials for the “Let’s Speak & Read & Write English” program AND Community Health Education/Evangelism “CHE” program. These are two more wonderful ministries out of NLC. Having the New Life Press running properly has been my personal goal for years. Having been so involved with all the other outreach ministries (Developing & Managing NLC, PETs Zambia, Sister Church construction, Crusades and Church development, Farming, Etc.) it has been very difficult to focus on New Life Press running at it’s full optional. It’s a joy to see all the NLC staff take over those other responsibilities and do such an outstanding job! I can now focus on evangelism and printed materials. These are my two first loves!!
They both have the same acronyms for my personal philology...
PTL & PTL
(Preach it- Teach it- Live it & Print it- Teach it- Leave it)
in their hands to help themselves and others do the same.
Please keep the PET Zambia ministry in prayer. As mentioned the other day, we need help at this time.
Serving Christ together one day at a time...
Faithfully,
Delbert & Sandy
--
P.O.Box 20219 • Kitwe, Zambia
Groves@NewLifeZambia.com
http://www.NewLifeZambia.com
New Life Center Advance Special: #15057A