In 2008, The Vineyard Church here in Kenner entered into a long-term partnership with Vineyard Boise and Vineyard Church of Columbus in an effort to come along side local Vineyard Churches in Zambia, Africa to see long term transformation and to see the Kingdom of God fully present within the life of this country. Whether its building deep water wells and biosand filters with Seeds of Hope International, training lay leaders at the local churches, or simply praying for the sick and the marginalized, we long to see the Kingdom of God break in and renew this little part of the world. This blog is a place where you can join us as we seek to accomplish this mission.

Monday, May 23, 2011

The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round

We had special guests last night (Sunday) at the Healing House and I asked Janet to share a few words about it. Hope you are enjoy!

Mama Glenda (Pastor Damas’ wife) and four ladies from the church came to visit with the women from the team. To our surprise they came to thank us for the day of ministry together on Saturday evening. They spoke many words of encouragement and blessings to us. As the four of us sat and listened to what God had done through the teaching and prayer ministry time we all became overwhelmed with the outpouring love of their hearts.

To our surprise, Mama Glenda had been praying for two years for God to show her how to bring the women together in order to minister and grow together in relationship. This first women’s conference did just that for her. These women with Mama Glenda were the ones whom God had shown her would be the ones to walk alongside her in raising up “Women for the Nurturing”. After approximately an hour and half of conversation, in addition to lots of love, affirmation and encouragement being poured over us four ladies, we were in awe of God’s Grace that had been so lavishly given to us.

Mama Glenda and the other women then committed to praying for next year’s women’s conference and all stood in agreement for it to come to pass. BUT, it didn’t end there; these incredible women brought us gifts of Chitonge’s (skirt wraps) for us to take a piece of them and Ndola back with us to the U.S.

We laughed and cried together and said our farewell’s with hearts full of rejuvenated hope and anticipation of what God will do over the next year. We four ladies would like to ask the ladies of our Vineyard to open their hearts to pray for this God birthed vision.
-Janet

Today (Monday) we took 11 hour bus ride to Livingstone. We have settled in for the night and will take the evening off in order to rest for our upcoming week.

Upcoming preview: Tomorrow, we are having a pastor’s conference in the Livingstone area. Please lift up Robb, Shawn, Sandra, and Janet in prayer as they will be speaking.

p.s. I am a princess.

p.s.s. Someone had a weally wild bus wide on the wheel well.
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