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Page 2 of 2 Building Team gets set for Zambia On 5 May, under the leadership of Joe Jansen, 20 volunteers, both male and female, from various walks of life will leave their homes in eastern Australia and the USA to spend a month primarily working on the new Eagles Wings primary school under the direction of our Zambian project manager. An incredible amount of organisation has been taking place behind the scenes, both in Australia and in Zambia to bring this trip together. Many of the volunteers have building backgrounds and will use these skills to fabricate roof trusses, pitch roofs and connect power. And that?s just in the first week! Others will work on the plumbing, fabricate security grills and make pieces of furniture. Some without building skills will be given crash courses in wall rendering which should make for some great Kodak moments! While all this is being done, there will be clothes to wash, meals to prepare and shopping to be done in order to keep things moving along at a cracking pace.It is not only the Eagles Wings primary school which will benefit from this trip however ? some of the women heading over will teach knitting at Immanuel Mercy Ministries, a ministry to prostitutes which equips them with skills they can use to make money whilst also discipling them. In addition, Paul Curtis will be kept busy with preaching engagements whilst also steering the team along a suitable devotional path and Joe Jansen will be teaching welding to the MMM students 1 day each week. There is a great deal of excitement amongst the team as final preparations are being made. Every team member has a vital role to fill and there is much anticipation of some great team building as well as times of reflection as each member once again, or perhaps for the first time, considers their place and role in a world of such inequality. It can be guaranteed, not one member will return home the same as when he or she left.
- the ongoing preparations and arrangements in the lead-up to the team?s departure and that each member of the team will be ready physically, mentally and spiritually for the challenges which lay ahead - for protection and good health during the trip and for great wisdom and sensitivity on the part of all members in dealing not only with each other, but also with the children and workers at Eagles Wings farm as well as the many Zambians around them in such desperate need. |
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