Trip to Livingstone and Camp Hope around the corner

The past two weeks have flown past at an incredible pace. Last week we went to Livingstone for a couple of days and visited Mosi Oa Tunya National Park, Victoria Falls in Zambia and Chobe National Park in Botswana. We also did an elephant ride through the bush near Victoria Falls. On the trip we had Anneloes and Kim Becker with us so it almost felt like our family was complete except that Kim replaced Elise. We had a great time in Livingstone and the activities we did showed us again that God's creation is amazingly divers. I don't believe that evolution would have ever allowed for such a diversity in animal life, plants and landscape. To me it is clear that this is all God's handiwork (see pictures below).

 

 

God's creation is truly amazing and we had a great and relaxing time together as a family (with Kim as adopted daughter) before the first Camp Hope starts next week. It was a welcome break from our daily activities and nice to have Anneloes and Kim with us as well. Surely we missed Elise but Kim was a worthy stand-in. We hope that Elise will be able to join us again another time so that we can do this trip again because we're sure that we haven't seen it all yet.

 

On Tuesday this past week we went through the final steps of registration of our vehicle. Everything is now behind us and we now have the permanent license plates on our vehicle. We used it for our trip to Livingstone on a temporary license and it was great to drive it with the five of us and our luggage. We hope to have a lot of benefit from the vehicle for the coming years. The whole process took about 4 months which is very long to our standards but in the meanwhile you appreciate more the luxuries that we have back home when it comes to cars and transportation.



 

 

 

On Wednesday and Thursday this coming week about 55 missionaries will arrive for Camp Hope so this past week included a lot of preparation for the arrival of missionaries as well as about 300 orphans that will attend camp. This includes the preparation of the camp site with bathrooms and showers as well as the purchasing of the food, etc. for the missionaries as well as the orphans. The office looks like a warehouse right now with all the food stored there before it will be transported to Nyangwena. The coming two and a half weeks will be very busy and we will likely shuttle frequently between Lusaka and Nyangwena. This morning the other two interns arrived and Lucinda will join them for the next two months and live again at the office. The three ladies, Rebecca, Molly and Lucinda, will support the staff and missionaries during Camp Hope so they will be pretty busy running around.

 

We are thankful that Kim made it back home safely and we hope that she had a nice time with us here in Zambia for the past two weeks. I am sure that she has a few stories to tell and some pictures to show. Kim, it was great having you here and you're always welcome to visit us again. Lucinda will surely like that a lot.

 

We hope to provide another update next week after the first few days of Camp Hope.

 

Blessings