Wednesday Bible School

Hey everyone! Don't know if any one knows but I help out with a kids club every Wednesday. Sally Greene a member of Flying Mission started this club with the children that live around the air strip and I have started helping her. Every week is different in the amount of children that come. This last week we had 100 kids and the week before that 90! As I said though, it varies, because some weeks we only have 10 kids. Just these past few weeks we've started calling this group of kids the Rainbow Kids, because God has made them so different and we want them to remember that God keeps his promises for them. Please pray for us and them, sometimes it feels like we are running controlled chaos! But especially pray for the kids and that they may one day know the Father who keeps His promises!

Learning on a PR day!

Hi Mom Sally Lott here, saying MwaliBwangi!

I could use to learn more of the local language and blogger lingo too! It is so great to have time specifically put aside for us to Keep in Touch and learn the technology to do it. Thanks FMZ!There are many Languages in Zambia but mostly this home schooler and flight follower uses English!

Zeph. 3 :17 I am rejoicing in time given for working on keeping in touch with friends! Also God's tender care! Getting settled here has taken more time then we expected I think. Today flight following begins as this is the first day we were able to actually hear some one speak back to us on the HF radio! Our Base manager and guy 'in charge' was flying and we heard him and he heard us! Now life will take on that flavor again.

We are enjoying the things we packed up a year ago and get to see since the container arrived! EvaLynn, Kathryn and I have done some house rearrangeing and have put on a sofa cover and a futon cover. I finally got the curtains hemmed and since the internet is now working we can decide where the computer will have a final home.

Enjoy the Day, Salott

A Look Back In Wonder

August 9, 2007

A breather from flying this week. A great chance to catch up on "ground" stuff - like this blog.

We live an interesting life. On one hand I think we are living the adventure of our dreams. On the other hand I think we must be crazy doing this. I think living by faith is just that. So we have been living the faith venture in Zambia 10 months now and this month is the anniversary of our departure from the USA to Zambia.

What a road! Very similar to the roads in Zambia. Some of the time smooth and most of the time a bit rough.

The Lord is bringing together a good team for Flying Mission Zambia. Last week the Smith family joined us, eventually to move to Chitokoloki. (A mouthful). So we now have people in Macha, Mukinge, Lusaka and soon Chitokoloki. The Schneiders decided this is the place the Lord wants them so they come in November to work logistics and guest house development. We now have 4 aircraft. 2 C206's and 2 C210's.

The homeschooling year ended with a last push and gasp. Well done. So EvaLynn, Kathryn, and Sally get a nice break.

So we moved three times. I never imagined I would ever do that in one year let alone with a cat and dog in tow!. Our good God came up with a superb location in Lusaka at our final stop.

We wrestled and worked to get internet and email service to our house. We saw a tower go up AAAAAND then down! Finally up to stay. Internet service is a delightful development in Africa. Internet access is getting better and better, faster and faster. Thanks to an organization we support with our flying, this kind of access is getting to rural places in Zambia, not just the big population centers. Macha and Mukinge happen to be two of them.

We waited mostly patiently for a container to ship from the states to here. I think it was 9 months intransit. We waited a year for Zesco, the electic company here, to install three phase electrical power as a beginning to a future hangar and the equipment to be used. Perseverance continues to be an essential part of living by faith.

We began renovating a Flying Mission farm house to eventually become a guest house.

And I have flown all over Zambia from North to South and East to West. Places like Zambezi, Mongu, Kalabo, Livingstone, Macha, Chipata, Kasama, Mpika, Mkushi, Ndola, Kitwe, Solwezi, Sakeji, Kalene Hill, Chizera, Kabompo, Chavuma, Loloma, Mukinge and of course Lusaka. Try to find those places on google earth.

So we marvel at how much can happen in a year with the Lord leading the charge.

CULater David

Container!!!! AT LAST!!

God is good! Just last week we opened FM's 17 ton container. We were so excited that the people who brought the container asked us why we were acting so strangely. They then learned that we have been waiting for this container for a year. The unloading went wonderfully! Some of my friends from youth group came to help unload and the new FM family, the Smiths, also helped unload. It was funny because Mrs. Smith helped load the container (in the States) and wished she could be here (Zambia) to see us open it :) ...she got her wish! We will be having Christmas twice this year! Thanks for all your prayers and for those who donated stuff, thank you too too much as well. EvaLynn