Ninas Family Missional Life

     Time seems to be rushing toward our departure for Zambia on June 1st.  This past Saturday, we were awakened at 4:30 AM by a new addition to our farm.  He is the son of our Nubian goat, Millie, and a dwarf goat we borrowed named Harvey.  He looks alot like his daddy, except for the white spot on top of his head-just like his mother.  Stephen, our son, named him Gavin.  He is a precious, furry ball of love.  When we was first born, Lynne handed him to me wrapped in a towel.  He instantly began sucking on my chin-I guess the bear made me look like a goat.   We are looking forward to goat's milk to drink and for our coffee.      With Spring and the time change my opportunity for photographing sunsets is on the increase.  I love to photograph sunsets and sunrises, but favor sunrises "Great is Thy Faithfullness" is one of my top 5 favorite hymns.  Each sunrise reminds me that "morning by morning new mercies I see!"  Love that passage of Scripture in Lament

      Lynne and I thought we were heading off into an adventure where we only know two people, Wes and Laurie who stayed with us during their furlough (briefly).  Received an e-mail from a Christian friend and former shipmate that blew me away.  It seems his mom's best friend make regular trips to Macha, Zambia.  The husband of the couple is a doctor the the Macha Mission Hospital.  The doctor will be in Zambia starting the end of June.       My family has had fun visiting the Oracle of Bacon .  You can type in any actor or actress's (nobody uses that word anymore) name and the site will tell you how many movies separate that actor from Kevin Bacon.  It will give you details on the movies also.  So here we are preparing for Mapanza, Zambia, and we will have web acquaintances just a few miles down the road in Macha.  Who would have thought I could have "people" in Zambia!?!?!?!?!?!  I believe the  doctor's name is Jaeron DeBoe.  Anybody there at New Day know that

   We are into March and the time we depart for Zambia in June  .  .  .  well it seems as if it is quickly approaching and as if it will never get here.  Excited about the opportunity to serve and meet these children in person after studying their faces online.  However, there is trepidation about this adventure.  A line from Steven Curtis Chapman comes to mind, "saddle up your horses, we've got a trail to lay, through the wild blue yonder of God's amazing grace."   The red tag to the right is what Collins Maps tells me is Mapanza.  Lusaka is northeast and Livingstone is southwest.      Found a reasonably priced birding field guide for Zambia.  You know when you are looking at books for birding in southern Africa on Amazon, there are not a lot of reviews.  Most of the in depth field guids are old and expensive.  This "pocket" guide had good reviews for the four people who reviewed.  Only down side is that the raptors are pictured perched and not in f