One Step Forward

On our recent trip to Mpika we were able to obtain the letter from the city council that we have been waiting for for months...... We praise God for that!!!!!!

We were able to work on the road and finished just over a kilometer. This may not sound like much but  considering it is all done by hand it is quite a distance.

Every tree had to be chopped down with an axe

The road winds back towards the mountain.

Could it be true?

We are planning to travel to Mpika on May 5th and stay till May 17th.

We will follow up on paperwork both at the city council and at the ministry of agriculture.
Please pray we find favor and that we are able to obtain ALL the necessary papers we need to actually move to the next step.

We plan to camp at the farm and hope to do a bit of work..... I have a list of simple things to start with and we pray that we actually make some headway.......

Could it be that we are finally going to start? We are very hopeful.

Please continue to pray for us.  First about the paperwork but also for wisdom, favor, protection and especially that we would find honest, hardworking people of integrity to work with.

Thank you SO very much for your continued support and encouragement.

God bless you

A Step Forward?

In the last blog were waiting for the Mpika city council to meet on Feb 6th. That meeting took place as scheduled. I traveled to Mpika to attend the meeting and interviews regarding our application. The interview went very well but the meeting was inconclusive. We were told to wait for the "full"council meeting to be held March 31st. ........    So again we waited.

March 31st came and the meeting was postponed to the following week.          So we waited.

The following Monday the meeting did take place but it turned into a two day meeting and finally concluded on Tuesday.

When I phoned on Friday they told me that the application had been approved.  Praise God for that. Unfortunately they were not able to tell me when the letter of recommendation would be ready. I will make a follow up phone call in the next week or so.

When the letter is ready we will travel to Mpika to collect all the papers and bring them back to Ndola for approval.

So we may have actually taken a step forward. I hesitate to get too excited until we actually have the papers in hand but at least there seems to be a trickle of light showing through at the end of this long tunnel of waiting.

Thank you to everyone for all your prayers. Please continue to stand with us in prayer.

God bless you all

Paperwork

Let me start off 2014 with a brief update on how the paperwork is going for the farm.

The papers are with the Mpika city council and they are to be looked at during the next scheduled meeting which is to be February 6. I intend to travel and attend that meeting in order to ensure the papers are considered and not pushed to a later date.

Please pray that things finally start moving forward and that the paperwork is looked at favorably. Also pray that all the paperwork finishes soon so we can be granted the title deed.

Thanks to everyone and Happy New Year

Season's Greetings

Let me take this opportunity to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a most wonderful and prosperous New Year.

I want to say a very big thank you to all those who have prayed for us and supported us this past year and also to those who have pledged to continue supporting us in the coming year.

May God bless each and every one of you.

Camping

Here are some pictures of our time on the farm. This is real bush camping!

This was our 'bathing room'

Behind this anthill was the 'toilet'

Some times I felt like Pigpen from the peanuts comics because these tiny flies would swarm all over us. 

Road

On our trip to Mpika we also managed to start clearing a road. It is quite a bit of work cutting trees and clearing the land but we were able to clear a good distance. The land is very sandy and it will take driving up and down the road a few times in order to compact it.