Kitwe Zambia is a city of approximately 500,000. Our team, Mark Carey, Phyllis Spielmann and myself visited a compound there that is home for 44,000 to 46,000 very poor members of the population. We attended a meeting of one of the 46 “grow groups”

During the second week of our 2017 mission trip, three of our team members went to Kitwe, Zambia to observe the completed 2016 building project financed by the Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church.  Read what Phyllis has to say about her Kitwe experience . . . 

Greetings everyone! Sorry for the late posting , but internet time is often hard to come by and there is often not a lot of time  for creating posts. Everything has gone well and rather smoothly overall. 

Dear Beacon of Hope Supporters,

Image from Hebron Junior school, Uganda.

The following comments are from the Lusinga Secondary School in Kamuli, Uganda. . . . 

Here is a testimony given to one of our team leaders by a teenage girl that attended an after school Smart Choices program. 

The Smart Choices program was initiated in Zimbabwe in 2011 and Victoria Falls is one of the first places where we established a Smart Choices team. One of the larger schools in the Victoria Falls village is Mosi-au-Tunya. Mosi-Au-Tunya refers to the falls and it means "The Smoke that Thunders."

Here is a quote from one of the students from the Mosi-Au-Tunya high school at Victoria Falls Zimbabwe during our 2013 program. 

2006 Smart Choices Student

Mzingazi District, of Richards Bay, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa

A few years ago I got a friend request on g+.  This is how our conversation went. . . 

Giving Tuesday has finally arrived. This starts off a month of year end fundraising to fund our mission for 2017.   As we look ahead to 2017, high on our priority list is our Mission Trip starting on January 13. For the first time ever, we are bringing each team leader with their spouse or a second team member to Johannesburg to a 4-day seminar. This is a total of about 32 participants.