Time flies by when you are having fun!

May is bringing cooler weather to Zambia and we are thankful for the cool down, however it is beginning to feel cold to us.  We question ourselves daily on how can we from the states be feeling so cold?  We have just realized that we are acclimating to being African a lot quicker than we thought.  Today is our 2 month anniversary for being in Zambia.  Although things progress here a lot slower than in the states we do feel like God truly had a plan for us to come here.  Our family has adjusted very well to living in Zambia.  On the home front the girls are enjoying themselves and are learning new things almost daily.  Madisyn is picking up on quite a bit of the local language Nyanga and Ahlyvia is learning to use her voice too, however she just screams, screatches and shreaks for everything.  I have been working with Madisyn a couple hours a week on school work and she is doing very well, she really enjoys learning and loves to read.  When given time to herself you find her with one of our books, just making up the story as she goes.  We are encouraging her in this area and hope that she will be reading in the next year.  She already is beginning to sound out many words on her own!  On April 28th, Ahlyvia got her first tooth and all of us are very aware of the new tooth as she bites everything and everyone!  We also moved to our new house on the 26th of April.  We are still trying to settle in and there are many things that are not finished yet, but we are living amongst the chaos.  I am learning every day more about the African culture and believe it or not so is Vincent.  Things happen a lot different than we are used to.  A lot of people keep quoting me the phrase, "T.I.A. This is Africa."  I just smile and keep being persistent until things are done properly.  I hope to give the Zambians a new look at work and work ethic, I tell them it takes just as much energy to do the job wrong as it is to do it right! 
We are hosting our first visitors this coming Saturday, we have the privelage of picking up a couple that will be doing DTS at West Lusaka's YWAM base.  WE are honored to have people come stay with us. 
Samantha has become quite involved with volleyball both on the campus where we stay and in the community in which we are working.  She plays with all men and keeps them on their toes, on average 3-5 times a week she is playing for 2 hours at a time. 
Ministry is evolving too, we are diligently working at getting all the needed resources together for the adult literacy program which will be 3 days a week for 4 hours a day.  Please also be praying with us about our animal husbandry pilot project we are attempting to start within the next two weeks.  There are some needed repairs to be done to the area in which we will be housing the animals at the farm and for that we are in need of finances to get this project up and running.  The community Grippis is taking the steps forward that are needed to get them registered as a cooperative.  Later this week they will be voting, please continue to pray for this process to go quickly and smoothly.  We just also discovered that one of the local leaders of the community has fallen quite sick and we are going today to lay hands on him and pray for his health and well being.  The school is doing very well the students are learning a lot and are loving being in school.  We also have been working with a pastor who has begun a discipling in the community with us, he has been holding services on Sunday's and Wednesday and participation is small but is steadily growing.  The first week there were 17 in attendance and now I believe they are up to 25.  Praise be to God for his work in this community.  Please continue to pray for the people of Grippis and for us as we are diligently trying to be the hands and feet of God to the poor and disadvantaged here in Zambia. 
WE still want to share our desire for people to come here and help us in our ministry in Zambia, the work is plenty, but the workers are few.  Please pray about your opportunity to come to Zambia and have an experience that you will not regret.  Our desire is to have at least two teams come here before the end of 2010 and for even more teams to be planning for 2011.  Get in touch with us as God places it upon your hearts to come and serve along side the Luwizhi's.
We thank God daily for this opportunity and we also are thankful for all of you who are supporting us in prayer and finances.  WE still need some more monthly support to be able to sustain us while we are here.  We will be sharing with you in the near future about our tent making desires here to generate income that will be utilized directly in helping the poor in Zambia.  Our desire is to get people to assist in building a project that will be able to sustain itself to be able to raise part of our project monies right within the country of Zambia.  We know that there will be big projects that will need assistance from the West, however smaller project that will empower the local people we feel will be possible with an income generating project. 
Please visit our website http://www.luwizhiactofmercy.com/ and also follow us on facebook.  Please also share our story and website and blog with all your friends and help us to get more people who are willing to join our ministry team in prayer and financial support! 
Love and Blessings from the Luwizhi's Living in Lusaka