Here's a few pictures to introduce some of the people and projects I will be working with while in Zambia.  This picture is of Lovemore, the head of the national community health evangelism program (CHE).  He is praying with the sweetest mother and daughter I met on my trip last year.  The little girl is seven years old and has spina bifida and hydrocephalus.  Despite these crippling diseases in such a resource poor area, she and her mom had wonderful smiles that matched their joyful attitudes.  I met them at a health screening.  I had hoped to connect her to a missions hospital in the capital that had a neurosurgeon, but unfortunately, she passed away before making it down there.  This picture embodies what the CHE program is.  Christians bringing the love and hope of Christ in many different facets.

This is a group of teenagers and children from a church where we taught a Holy Spirit seminar over a weekend.  The pastors often have little opportunity for formal Bible training so bringing this helps give them more Biblical training and materials along with strengthening the congregation.  It is so wonderful to partner with the local, national pastors.  The young woman on my right wants to become an accountant.

These are the children being weighed, measured for height and mid upper arm circumference in a village 6 hours north of the capital.  These numbers help predict or tell us if a child is malnurished or in danger of becoming malnurished.  During the health screening, I wrote prescriptions for medications for simple problems like ringworm or eczema and taught the community health workers things about "sick" and "not sick" children.  I learned about what mumps looks like in person.  Mumps is something doctors in America only read about in books thanks to our great vaccination programs.  Here it is still a very real problem, along with measles and chicken pox and neonatal tetanus.